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.