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I think its better to have the higher resolution video of the iPhone, with its detail in the shadows and then apply stabilization to it in iMovie. The result then would also be less shaky video and better contrast. :p

Obviously you would only apply the stabilization to clips worth keeping as it is a somewhat laborious step, but the option and technology is there for you. HD is definitely the way to go :)

Lets hope there is an improvement in the white iPhone on stabilization too! I am dreaming of a white Christmas.;)
 
The thing that doesnt look right for me is the fact that these pics are meant to be the same scene as we can tell by the car driving down the road.

But notice that the 4 is zoomed in more than the touch. This can also affect the way the camera takes video.

It would help with this kind of comparison video to see how they actually took the shots from a 3rd person perspective. That way you can see for example he is holding his 4 in his left hand.

Now that may not sound like a huge thing but if you were to give someone who is right handed a video camera and then tell them to make is as smooth as possible you will notice that usually the left hand is weaker and shakier.

Or another idea is that he taped the cameras to a stick and held them out a window or something similar. That would explain the difference in heights and angles the pictures seem to show.

But thats just my opinion.

As for the MP as others have said the one with less usually can take just as good a shot if not better than what others with higher MP can. But the difference comes in low light and also resolution when blowing the picture up, or in this case video.
 
The Point is " IS THIS i-Phone 4 is i-OS 4.1 UPDATED ONE or Former i-OS 4.0 ONE? "

iPod Touch looks to shoot a much better video than the iPhone 4, IMO.

The Point is " IS THIS i-Phone 4 is i-OS 4.1 UPDATED ONE or Former i-OS 4.0 ONE? "

TO BE HONEST, I Definitely Prefer i-Pod Touch's video Result to i-Phone 4's ONE, if I'm Asked Which Do'you Like Better, though I Still i-Phone 4's EVERY FUNCTION, of course including HD video Recording, Highly Appreciated.

So I'm Really AMAZED at Latest i-Pod Touch's REAL LEAP!

I'm NOT Disappointed With i-Phone 4's Result at All.


But I'm Very Interested in Whether This Comparison Was Conducted Before THE UPDATE of i-OS 4.1 was Made or After that!

If The i-Phone 4 Having Been Used in This Test Was with Former i-OS 4.0, Updated i-Phone 4 with i-OS 4.1 Might Be Improved in Video Shooting TOO.


Because I WANT to ANNOUNCE to The ALL THE i-Phone 4 Users in The WORLD that With The Update of i-OS 4.1, i-Phone 4's Yellowish Pictures Shot Problem INSIDE Building NOW HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY SOLVED!

NOW YOU CAN HAVE REALLY BEAUTIFUL NATURAL Photo Shoot WHETHER OUTSIDE or INSIDE, CONGRATULATIONS!


So I HOPE The SAME LEAP with i-OS 4.1 Comes to Video Recording too with i-Phone 4!


Did Someone Test with i-OS 4.1 Already?
 
The iPhone 4 is better. It captures more details (look at the grass, leaves on the trees), especially on darker areas, and more neutral colors. The Touch's camera is obviously inferior, thus the need to oversaturate the colors to have more "pop" on the video, masking the lack of details. You can do the same comparison between the 3GS and 5th gen nano videos. The nano captures a similar oversaturated video. It "pops" more at a glance than the 3GS due to oversaturation, but once you pay a bit more scrutiny, the 3GS has better details and better low-light sensitivity.
 
The iPod's camera has a wider field of view (which is generally a good thing for this sort of device) and much better contrast. The iPhone's video looks a bit washed out.

I'd really like to see a low-light comparison.

I was thinking the same thing. Low light would be nice and yes, like you, I agree the contrast appears to be better on the iPod. I wonder, will a software upgrade will fix that? ~finger scratches head~
 
Theoretically yes, but it would either require dropping the fps to about one third, or extreme processing power. Or both.

Not quite. Try to do HDR just by alternating frame, and you'll get very noticable motion artifacts. That's because the picture naturaly changes between frames on moving video, while HDR requires near-identical frames to compare against. At 30fps, you'll have output of 10fps, with .03 recurring seconds of motion artefacts in each composited frame.

You could just about do it with a high-frame rate capable camera, that took a thousand frames a second, and took three references frames each .003 seconds.
 
Not quite. Try to do HDR just by alternating frame, and you'll get very noticable motion artifacts. That's because the picture naturaly changes between frames on moving video, while HDR requires near-identical frames to compare against. At 30fps, you'll have output of 10fps, with .03 recurring seconds of motion artefacts in each composited frame.

You could just about do it with a high-frame rate capable camera, that took a thousand frames a second, and took three references frames each .003 seconds.

Puts "Tech-Guy" hat on.

Or you could have the light coming in the lens, being split by a special mirror onto 3 separate sensors.

One over, one under and one mid setting.

Then you have built hard wired into a chip an ultra high speed HDR encoding routine that combines them in real time.

Could be done :)
 
Amazing how one sample somehow makes the iPod touch better than the iPhone 4?

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/09/ipod-touch-4-vs-iphone-4-camera-fight-no-contest.ars/3

Samples showing opposite of the samples posted by macrumors.
Well, even the sample shown here doesn't show that the Touch is better, at least not to me. It just that this shows a lot of people have the perception that pictures/videos that have more "pop" (oversaturated color) or "contrast" to be better.
 
The iPhone, being thicker, looks easier to hang on to. My current Touch is hard to handle because it is so thin, when it's out of its case.
 
I was thinking the same thing. Low light would be nice and yes, like you, I agree the contrast appears to be better on the iPod. I wonder, will a software upgrade will fix that? ~finger scratches head~

Well, as I see it it is not clear that there is a contrast difference. What it is clear to me is that there is a EXPOSURE difference, which is the reason you get blown highlights in the iPhone 4 and also more details in the shadows (typical trade-off). Check the blue Ford Mondeo next to the street light. On the iPhone 4 the roof is clearly blown out whereas on the iPod Touch the exposure is OK.

For me, the iPod touch has done a better job calculating the exposure of this cloudy day. It is a common error for cameras of all types to see a dark scene and push the exposure . iPod did it best in this case.

Also , as others have mentioned, there's more shakiness in the iPhone 4. This could be attributed to the fact that iPod has indeed a wider focal length and thus is less prone to camera shake. That's another thing I like about the iPod Touch as I prefer wide angles to teles. Rolling shutter initially seemed greater in the iPhone 4 but on closer inspection and stopping the video at certain fraes, I'm not so sure about that.

For the record, I own an iPhone 4.
 
The iPod's camera has a wider field of view (which is generally a good thing for this sort of device) and much better contrast. The iPhone's video looks a bit washed out.

I'd really like to see a low-light comparison.

Oh, you don't want to.

I thoughtthe video on the iPod was wayy better, it had less "jiggle" better contrast and everything!
 
iPhone video artifacts like Nano...

Agreed, the Touch's video is clearly better in this test.

I had noticed the breaking up/jumping about on some other iPhone4 video's

Wonder why it does that?

For what it's worth, I have an identical issue with the video taken from the 5G Nano. I had attributed it to having a really low end sensor, but seeing the same thing on the iPhone4 makes it seem to be more a bandwidth/processing issue.
 
Could Apple build HDR support into the video cameras too, or is it solely a photo thing?

I did think the iPod touch video looked better, but that video only showed one setting, I’d like to see more.

I seriously doubt it, see this. http://gizmodo.com/5634796/worlds-first-hdr-video-makes-me-weep-at-its-beauty The video looks unreal, and this was an experiment, I think if they shot a movie like this it could have a unique artistic look to it. Instead of the overuse of cheap color themes Movies use nowadays.
 
At first glance, I was thinking the iPhone 4 video looked better because it was lighter and I thought I saw more detail....but as I watched it, I realized that I preferred the iPod touch 4 video ALOT more. The color saturation was superior in my opinion. There was no shake and jello effect as I saw in the iPhone 4 video, and I liked the wider angle of the iPod touch.

Very impressed with the iPod touches video capabilities.
 
Well I've done video with my iPhone 4 and it looks quite impressive. Is the iPod better equipped for it?

EDIT:

Just saw the comparison vid. Aside from the shake, the iPhone 4 takes better video. You can see more detail. Hues are lighter and not oversaturated.
 
Just to add.

I can of course fully appreciate that if you were to swing a phone of low end video camera around quickly, take photo's of racing cars zooming by, helecopter blades spinning etc etc, then there would be some image breakup around these fast items.

It would be acceptable.

what is not acceptable at all if if the image fragments up whilst just strolling along a path shooting video or a slow pan across your garden or other such movement.

I'd like to see more iPhone4 footage.

I seem to recall seeing image breakup before, but I put that down to bad youtube encoding.
 
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