The Ultimate iPhone 16 Pro Camera Settings & Camera Test

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Chapters:
00:00 Can We Trick Marques?
01:21 Best iPhone Photo Settings & Editing (easy)
04:57 Best iPhone Photo Settings & Editing (advanced)
06:47 Best Video Settings for iPhone
09:40 Apple Coloring vs Adobe Coloring for iPhone
12:35 Blind Camera Test #1 - Shadows & Focus
14:26 Blind Camera Test #2 - Skintones
15:41 Blind Camera Test #3 - Bokeh & Focus
18:23 Blind Camera Test #4 - Really Really Hard
21:28 Intro Photos Revealed

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Shot and produced by Rich Ho & Eric Villa
Audio by Ellis Rovin
Graphics by Tim McMahon and Michael Emerick

[abdielramirez]

I’m loving the more frequent upload schedule!

[mkbhd]

Can I just say 18:14 is an absolute bar?

[jonathanpotopovich]

As someone who knows nothing about photography and cameras, I love watching David and Marques geek out and explain their thought processes.

[_daniel.rad_]

First video from the new guys and we love it..
This was informative but yeah of course storage is gonna burn really fast...

[BenHummel]

I really appreciate the easy vs hard pathways on the flow chart. Too many other videos on YouTube saying, "if you're not shooting in ProRAW you're an idiot!" and that's just not true for some people.

[adam_]

David is an extremely talented photographer.
I would love to watch a video of him taking photos on an iPhone and then explaining what he does in post + reasons for a specific shot.
Like “this is the portrait/landscape/etc I took and here’s what I’ve done to it and why”
So many of us would love to take beautiful pictures but lack talent. And David is a great explainer when it comes to photography.
Please, consider!

[GuyWhoCooks]

Gotta hand it to The Studio for putting out such quality content that would greatly help upcoming creators. You guys rock!

[Kianlewis]

This channel has been cooking lately !!

[hijikatasan]

I just switch to iPhone, your video is a lifesaver! I was going crazy at work with exporting the images to windows and other non-apple platforms!

[xliquidflames]

This is not intended to bash or praise either Apple or Android. This is simply to give Android users the same paths talked about here.

I'm typing this on my Pixel 8 Pro and followed along with the video.

2:12 Android always remembers your settings.

2:27 I don't have Photographic Styles.

3:03 I turned on my grid, level, and mirrored the front camera. The setting for mirroring on Android is "save selfie as previewed". I tuned that off.

3:30 I don't have "prioritize faster shooting" but I do have a setting that lets me pick between 12 and 50mp. I just always leave it on 50mp regardless. And when 50mp is enabled over 12mp, burst is greyed out.

3:48 Again, I don't have Photographic Styles and I'm not sure what the equivalent would be. Maybe the filters in the Android camera are the same thing but those are after you've shot a photo so not really. There are in-viewfinder shadow and white balance sliders you can adjust before taking a photo if you tap the sliders icon beside the shutter button. But, again, I'm not sure if that's the same thing. So I'm going to skip the whole Photographic Styles path.

5:01 Intense path:
I already had Lightroom mobile installed and subscribed to it.

5:24 For formats, in the pro settings, you can pick just JPEG or JPEG and RAW. So, I turned on both. So when I take a picture, I get the JPEG file and the RAW file. RAW is not ProRAW, keep in mind. If I remember correctly, ProRAW is Apple's proprietary version of the RAW format. Everyone else uses RAW format. The point is, I now have JPEG and RAW files to work with.

5:52 No, I'm mostly in Android and Windows. So, I'm skipping the yes path here.

6:37 There's no JPEG-XL setting on Android so skipping that.

7:05 Yes, I shoot video. So, let's do this path.

The 8 Pro can do 4k60fps so that is now enabled.

7:19 Keep in mind that turning on 60fps disables the HDR settings so if you want HDR, leave it on 30fps. I don't like the look of HDR and I would rather get 60fps videos so I turned on 60fps. This is a personal choice thing and I'm pretty sure the Pixel 9 can do 4k120 with HDR. I am generation behind. That's why I have to pick one or the other.

7:44 Intense video path:
There isn't a ProRes setting on Android because that's an Apple thing but you can pick between H.265/HVAC and H.265/AVC. HVAC is a smaller file but may not be compatible with some stuff. I use AVC because stoage isn't a concern. I'd rather have compatibility.

9:53 You can adjust the shadows, white balance, saturation, ISO, ect before taking a picture by hitting the sliders icon beside the shutter button on Android. There aren't any "styles" presets which is what Photographic Styles sounds like, but you can adjust these settings in the Android camera before taking a photo. Then, after taking the photo, Google Photos gives you *all kinds* of adjustments you can make including filters and adjusting the look of said filters.

That's it, I think. Right? Even last year's Pixel can do most of what they're talking about here. Don't think you have to have the latest iPhone to do this stuff.

[yashs]

For Vinh's part they have got Tyler Stalman on the iMac as its colour grading. Haha well played!

[thalia]

Vinh only appearing with warm lighting is perfect.

[rushalmshah]

The studio channel is setting a bar high day by day ( just like the main channel). So much to learn from production perspective in every video. Thanks

[sachafievet]

This is the type of content I really enjoy. Simple and easy to follow, information made easy to receive. Love it!

[loganbolarinho]

Banger after banger video on this channel recently, great work yall!

[OleSveberg]

haha I can't believe they used David's confetti sound imitation 6:46

[hiryuFGC]

Hell yes. I just upgraded to the 16 pro but felt like I needed to actually learn how to take photos with it instead of the usual autopilot. Great content

[theBaseBoard-qm]

As technically involved and informative this test was, it was equally engaging with personality, color, composition and narration..great clip!

[nicholasmiller]

I like the photographic styles this year. I have it set so that it doesn’t lighten the shadows so much, and I turned up the saturation a little.

[Huttersvuur]

HDR (Dolby Vision) has nothing to do with protecting highlights. It's a format that displays higher nit values on your screen. You might be mistaken with HDR photography which is exposure bracketing. Two very different things. Source: I'm a pro film colorist.