Adam Kos Along with the new iPhone 13 series, Apple introduced a film mode exclusively for them. At least that's what the company itself says about it, but in the Camera app you'll find it under the name Film and it's referred to as a Movie image. With his help, we have already shot the first music video here and, as you can guess, there are no surprises.
Apple promoted its novelty to us properly and we have to admit that what it showed us could have taken our breath away. But already WSJ's Joanna Stern she showed that it won't be that famous. Now here we have the first music video shot purely in this mode. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out the way you probably wanted either. After all, judge for yourself.
Of course, Movie mode is Portrait mode, only in video, which can refocus on different objects in the scene. And since even an ordinary Portrait is still not perfect, its use in a video cannot be either. But if you have a filmmaker's eye and a little effort, you can play with it and conjure up a truly engaging video. But what Jonathan Morrison serves us is definitely not engaging.
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Singer Julia Wolf is a young, handsome girl who can probably sing. But she definitely didn't have to experiment with the aforementioned "videographer" filming her as she walks down the sidewalk. And that's really all. Just like this. All the time, he backs away from it and records it on the iPhone 13 Pro, without a gimbal or any accessories.
Sure, maybe even this needs a bit of experience, but it's just a shame. The video thus presents a function that has nothing to record here. Just a person with a blurred background. And even with her, there are also clear artifacts and obvious mode errors (see the image above and the spot near the singer's right arm). The video itself boasts that it was shot in this mode. You can see that it was sewn with a hot needle and without thinking. That's why the clips from the filming itself.
With this video, Apple itself presents the Movie mode function:
Of course, this is the first generation of this mode, which will be improved over time. Therefore, it is not advisable to condemn it in the bud. But it still requires thinking about the content. Classic video mode would work exactly the same here. But that probably wouldn't have achieved such hype and views. In any case, we have iPhone 13 in the editorial office and we will definitely put the Movie mode to our test.
It's about as I expected - the character seems to be cut out of the environment and it looks like he's walking in front of a scene projected on the screen behind him. At the same time, its edges are not sharp, which is not immediately noticeable with the lower quality and resolution, but users can choose - either they shoot a fair like this, or they reach for reality and prefer 4K without this nonsense. I'm not condemning it, it's the first step in some direction, but it needs to be taken as an "arcade" feature.
Well, if Apple presents the film mode on the iPhone 13 with this trick, then they managed to dissuade me from buying it.
If you think that without any effort you can make a perfect looking professional video just by filming some girl walking down the street, then you probably fell off the cherry tree. Have you ever tried taking pictures? Did your photos with the same camera LOOK the same as those taken by professional photographers? I think not. They know how to prepare the scene, light it. He knows how to do post production. And that's why they're pros. If an amateur took a professional camera and recorded the video on it, it would turn out just as stupid as with the iPhone. Nothing will be done.
But that's not the point at all. Here's what the phone is trying to do with that mode and how it's doing. And you see for yourself that it is no glory. What usually falls out of professional technology, Apple tries to catch up with software here, but it's just playing with something. It has its limits that you need to accept or get over it and shoot video normally and in higher quality.
After all, during such a scene (focusing still on the figure in front), the phone must handle the bokeh effect automatically, right? Even without the need for cinematic mode.
Considering how it works with the bokeh effect when taking pictures, doing it in real time in a video will not be such a piece of cake. That's why it uses max full HD 30 fps for it. And clear – the cinematic mode is not only about that, here it was only one character, but it is still about the sly blur at 30 frames every second, which is a problem to do perfectly even in a single frame. I am definitely not a supporter of something like that. I don't like forced bokeh.
Yes, that's true. I confuse it with photography, where bokeh is created. The video is sharpened to infinity.
I don't shoot much with my phone, I mainly take pictures, that's why it didn't click for me.