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Next iPhone to Record 1280x720 HD Video?
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Its even ok if it is vga quality at 1280x720 just NOT vga quality cropped up. PLUS its you against a billion and apple with the bigger lense it will look beautiful plus it's more flush the design i'll be upgrading from the 3G
Yeah, it figures they would do this. I just bought a Canon still camera that can shoot 720p. That is money I could have spent on a new iPhone that would always be in my pocket anyway.
Thanks a lot Apple. Why do you always have to be so freaking awesome? Huh? HUH?
Thanks a lot Apple. Why do you always have to be so freaking awesome? Huh? HUH?
Please, please, PLEASE let me choose between 30p and 24p.
:sigh: They won't let me choose, will they?
As a European I hope they'll let us choose 25p to fit with the PAL standard.
How ever that wouldn't explain the snippet of code found in the OS 4.0 beta that says "AVCapture 720x1280" and "AVCapture 640x480".
Expect to be given the choice between HD and SD capturing in the new iPhone.
So which side will have the 5 MP camera? Front, back, or both? Maybe one side is 5 MP, and the other one is a surprise to us?
Please, please, PLEASE let me choose between 30p and 24p.
:sigh: They won't let me choose, will they?
No they likely wont' let you have a choice. But since you are dreaming, lets at least add in 60p!
I hear ya... It rolls me how everyone just looks at the numbers for photo sensors, processors, etc., and not how well they perform.
It just seems to be a race to cram as many MPs into a camera sensor as you can. More MPs to, the average Joe, only gives you more zooming/cropping wiggle room. As the average Joe is still going to print it out at 300dpi, or display it at 72dpi. Magazine publishers print at a higher dpi, so they tend to use medium format gear (read, much higher MPs.)
My Nikon D300/D700 does me just fine at 12MBs (and even that is MORE than enough.) Heck, my old Canon D-Rebel took/printed some great photos, and it only had a 6MP sensor.
It all comes down to optics and sensor quality.
Just my 2¢
I hope this new iPhone will record 720p/24fps, because if it only records 30fps or 29.97fps then the resulting video would not play on the current AppleTV. I would, of course, forgive them if they would just upgrade the AppleTV!
You are right, and one can argue about the professional or sudo professional equipment used to film that video..... Not saying the video wasn't clean, but there was more equipment used then just the phone.
Not to be a huge co-signer, but yes, it is a limitation on the camera component. There is still a computer in there churning through all of that information, and taking 24-30 photos a second at more than 1280x720 and converting it into a certain format, etc, etc, take a lot of processing power.
Not that those small devices can't handle it, just that it will take it's toll on battery life, heat of the device, internal memory, etc. There's a reason some pay top dollar for full HD cams, and RED charges pro dollar for 4K.
Resolution ≠ Quality. My P&S camera takes video in 640x480, but it still looks better than the video taken by a flip mino with 1280x720. And while the iPhone 3GS has the same resolution as my camera, my camera's video looks dramatically better. What I'm trying to say is, you might get better results with a Flip mino anyway.Cool, now you don't need to get a flip camcorder.
Full HD in your pocket. Priceless...
And also 720p isn't Full HD, 1080p is Full HD. But then again one could say 1080p isn't full HD either because there are cameras that take videos at resolution up to 4096 X 2304 (see, RED.com).
That's the point. I don't think this is intended to make full movies or something professional, it's if you don't have your camera with you, or are willing to sacrifice quality for file size.
Phones that had video recording in 2003 took videos in a really low resolution (like 120x90 or less) with a frame rate of like 3-7fps. Almost no one had consumer HD camcorders (there were hardly any, and the ones that were available were really expensive).
And if you are talking about video recording in general, well iPhones had that since June 2009.
My guess is that the front-facing camera will be limited to captururing it at 640X480 and the back will capture at 1280X720.
-NOT.
With the expected resolution of the new iPhone at 5 megapixels it will be just fine. If their are any doubts about 5mp being any good, it is just about the same as a 35mm camera.
People are still going on about this megapixel nonsense. The number doesn't really matter all that much when we're talking about 5 vs lets say 8. Who saw the comparison that came out today with the Nexus beating the Droid Incredible camera in quality and being 3 megapixels less.
I stand corrected. I went back to my souce and he said 25mp = 35mm film. sorry.
I just bought a new Flip MinoHD too!
If this is true (and I really really hope it is), then I'm giving mine to my brother or something. No need for it.
That means it took pictures in 640x480. It mentions nothing about video, which is what I was talking about
