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Weirdest ad I have ever seen. The girl is not a good dancer, and the colored balls as an after effect? Huh?

I thought Samsung had money.
 
Just a gimmick. If you want real slo motion with clarity, you need a minimum rate around 5000 fps, not 120 fps.
 
Cool. But I wouldn't use it much.

It might be possible to leverage the added data for better image stabilization which means you might use it more than you tink

And knowing Apple if they include this they will figure out a way (likely via h.265) to keep the video at full res for the device and not some 'record 1080p at 30 fps and 480/720p at 120 fps‘ just to show up the other folks
 
I hope this is coming to the iPhone 5S, not a feature that will be used a lot, but still good to have. If you have a bit of a wicked side it could be priceless.
 
They should add really useful stuff to the Camera.app before they bother with this SloMo.

The Camera.app needs:

Timer
Time/date/location imprinting(Great for printing images)
Stabilization shot
720p @ 60FPS recording option, or just 720p option
White balance, Exposure, Light sensitivity(ISO), Contrast, Sharpness controls
 
...There's already apps on the App Store that can shoot in slow motion. It'll just be natively supported and therefore work much better.

I looked into the slow motion apps on the app store recently and didn't see much. One that I'd seen recommended in a magazine got horrible reviews. Is there a slow motion app you've used and would recommend?
 
Bet it looks real nice holding a tablet to record video.

There is always one person at the beach, at a concert or at a lookout taking photos with a tablet.

Im glad we arn't that guy :cool:

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I hope this is coming to the iPhone 5S, not a feature that will be used a lot, but still good to have. If you have a bit of a wicked side it could be priceless.

Literally laughed out loud when I read this, couldn't help it.

Ultra slo-mo for that "finishing" touch :p
 
I realize this is supposed to be the "post PC" world... but people really need to hook up their phones to their computers and offload some stuff!

I know people with thousands of photos on their iPhone. Not only are they taking up tons of space... I bet they don't have a backup either. And HD videos take up even more space.

More storage is always nice... but your phone is not supposed to be permanent storage.

you know, when i bought my retina i thought id be in trouble with such a small hard drive. im so used to having terrabytes. it forced me back into proper file management again. were so used to having so much space so cheap we just keep throwing stuff in the "closet". i had so many duplicates and folders called "clean me".. clean meA.. clean meB" etc. i am actually getting by just fine on such relatively small space. Had a guy at work the other day complaining about his phone running out of space. he had enough music and movies to last for three years.. but he still didnt have enough room.. its crazy
 
I'm a Figure Skater and my coach often takes video during our lessons with my iPhone. We use Ubersense for slow-mo playback and video analysis. But the source material is still really lacking since it's only 30FPS. 120FPS would be friggin' awesome for this and other sports / video analysis!!! I hope Ubersense releases an update with high speed video recording when this comes out. I also hope it's an iOS 7 thing that will work on my iPhone 5. Would suck to upgrade my phone so soon just for this one feature.
 
you know, when i bought my retina i thought id be in trouble with such a small hard drive. im so used to having terrabytes. it forced me back into proper file management again. were so used to having so much space so cheap we just keep throwing stuff in the "closet". i had so many duplicates and folders called "clean me".. clean meA.. clean meB" etc. i am actually getting by just fine on such relatively small space. Had a guy at work the other day complaining about his phone running out of space. he had enough music and movies to last for three years.. but he still didnt have enough room.. its crazy

Haha!!!

I have about 10 different "Unsorted Vids" and "Desktop Overflow" folders on my PC backup drive... LOL!
 
It might be possible to leverage the added data for better image stabilization which means you might use it more than you tink

And knowing Apple if they include this they will figure out a way (likely via h.265) to keep the video at full res for the device and not some 'record 1080p at 30 fps and 480/720p at 120 fps‘ just to show up the other folks

Good insight.
 
There are times when it might be handy to have a faster frame rate available. But I thought that the Samsung ad didn't do a very good job of illustrating the benefits of slow-motion, and the bouncing colored disks or whatever they were supposed to be were distracting.
 
I use the high frame rate feature a lot on the GoPro Hero3. But the situations where I use it wouldn't all be suitable for the iPhone. For example, I wouldn't attach my iPhone to a foam glider and launch it from the balcony. Nor would I take the iPhone snorkeling.

I'm glad to see improvements in the iPhone's camera (if these rumors are true). When it's time for me to upgrade to the iPhone 6, I'll probably find uses for it.

I hope that third party special effects apps can take advantage of the new hardware capabilities.
 
this is definitely a cool feature I'd like to have. It'd be even greater if they can bring this to the iphone 5 and previous generations, even if the camera may only support 60fps if there's a hardware limitation.

there's a few apps that claim to do this on the app store (e.g. slopro), but they don't seem to work properly?

one thing interesting from the samsung ad is the video is not in widescreen. either the ad has been formatted that way or the quality/size reduces in slow mo. hopefully apple does a better job.
 
that would make people happy. shooting a 2 second clip that takes 3 gigs of space.

And fools would buy a phone that shoots 120 fps. I prefer to keep my money than actually believe 120 fps is slo motion. Suckers are born every minute. :rolleyes: Luckily, I'm not stupid.
 
Cool. But I wouldn't use it much.

You wouldn't - a lot of people would. I for example use 60/120 fps modes on my Nikon P300 a lot for, among other things, video / game frame-per-second / dropped frame benchmarking purposes.

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Would be an awesome feature. Explains why the iphone 5's camera is so similar to the 4S's, this way Apple can kill two birds with one stone when they release the reason it's not supported. Looking forward to jailbreaking my 5 and using it on iOS 7.

You can already use 720p60 right now on the iPhone 5 (and maybe even the 4S - dunno, haven't tested on it). If you can compile iOS7 apps, just use my camera client at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1602171/

Note that I'll release a fully-fledged video recorder, reimplementing everything the stock Camera app has, very soon. However, the current one is already pretty functional.

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Hoping for an even better killer 5S-exclusive app than this, but pretty awesome regardless.

Again: it won't be exclusive to the 5S. 720p60 works on the iPhone 5 (and prolly even the 4S) in the current iOS7 betas too. If you can compile iOS7 apps, just use my camera client at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1602171/

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There are third party apps now that offer the slow motion processing, although I don't know if it'll be higher quality when run "natively".

Regardless, I hope they allow the 4s to do this ('cause my and my wife's 4s'es will be handed down to my kids and they would love the feature (they're always stealing my phone to make "action movies" with their toys, etc.), so this could be fun.

If you have iOS7 beta and can compile apps for it (you have Xcode + a dev license), you could test my 60fps recorder app right away. Hopefully it works. Again, I don't know whether it'll work (or not) on the 4S - only tested it on the 5.

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Link? Just curious about this. Didn't know app store apps offered native 120fps video. Please don't link to the apps that blur the frames or produce the extra frames. I mean snap 120 frames per second.

NONE of the apps offers true (non-motion-compensated) 30+ fps recording under iOS6 (as opposed to iOS5, where this was possible). If someone states the opposite, he just doesn't know what he's talking about.


This feature has been removed in iOS6 entirely; this is why Filmic Pro 2, among other things, had to be completely removed from AppStore. Under iOS5, true (albeit halved vertical res) 720p60 worked just fine on the iPhone 4S.

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There's an app for that. Already

Nope, you're absolutely wrong - again, no AppStore app can record at true 60 fps on iOS6. It's only possible under iOS5 on the 4S (via several AppStore apps) and iOS7 on at least the iPhone 5 (currently, with my open-source app).

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It's the fact that it will shoot video in 120 fps that makes it work better, not that it will be natively supported.

Slowing down a 30 fps video to 7.5 fps (1/4 of the original frame rate) will obviously not look as slowing down a 120 fps to 30 fps (also 1/4 of the original frame rate).

The apps that exists right now for the iPhone will never give as good results as the Note 2.

Exactly. The original footage must be recorded at a high speed to produce quality slowed-down footage. This is impossible under iOS6, "thanks" for Apple's completely removing 60 fps support existing in iOS5. (And now re-adding it as something absolutely new.)

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I love doing videos on the iPad mini or the iPad 4 but I'd like to see more frame-rate features. I'd also like to see auto-focus respond faster.

You won't see settable frame rates in the stock Camera app. However, most third-party camcorder apps (e.g., Filmic Pro) supports settable framerates - after all, there's an API call for that.

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120FPS takes just double what 60FPS takes.

1080p120 is, with current consumer-priced hardware, impossible to record. We're speaking of 4K sensor reading speeds here. No wonder 4K cameras are VERY expensive. 4K (or, bandwidth usage-wise, 1080p120) cameras won't appear in consumer devices for at least a year.
 
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