Adam Kos It is slowly becoming a rule that in each new generation of iPhone we will also see some new function of its cameras. E.g. last year it was movie mode, this year it's action mode, and just like last year, this year too, this mode won't be available on older devices. Even though it wasn't given as much space at the Keynote, it certainly deserves its attention.
It's basically an improved stabilization mode that lets you use your iPhone to film activities you'd normally use a GoPro camera for. Advanced stabilization here uses the entire sensor, it also understands Dolby Vision and HDR, and the result should be unshaken even when shooting handheld, i.e. stabilized as if you were using a gimbal (ideally).
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Although iPhones are bigger than action cameras, if you learn their functions, you don't need to buy them and you have all their capabilities right in your mobile phone. After all, action cameras were one of the single-purpose electronic devices that the iPhone had yet to replace. Well, until now. We can argue about how to attach the iPhone 14 Pro Max to a bicycle helmet, but that's another matter. The point here is that the iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max will offer the kind of video stabilization that the aforementioned cameras are proud of.
Apple is relatively tight-lipped about feature descriptions on iPhone product pages. It does inform about this news, but only relatively bluntly: "In action mode, even hand-held videos are beautifully stable - whether you want to take a few shots from a mountain hike or film a chase with the kids in the park. Whether you're filming from a jeep while driving off-road or filming at a trot, handheld videos will be stable even without a gimbal thanks to the action mode." literally states.
In the interface, the action mode icon will appear next to the flash in the new iPhone series. The yellow color will indicate its activation. You can see what it looks like "in practice" in the video above, in which Apple breaks down the new iPhone 14 (time 3:26). However, Apple has not published the modes in which this novelty will be available. Of course, it will be present in Video, it probably doesn't make much sense in Film (i.e. filmmaker mode), Slow-motion and possibly handheld Time Lapse could certainly use it, even though it doesn't look like the function should look at them yet. We'll see what the first shots look like, as well as whether Apple will crop the results in any way. He didn't talk too much about the resolution either.
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