iPhone 16 Pro Max vs $30,000 Cinema Camera | 4K 120FPS SHOWDOWN

The iPhone 16 Pro was just released, and it features 4K at 120fps recording in ProRes and Apple Log which is a huge step for iPhone filmmaking. So in this video I am comparing the iPhone 16 Pro Max to my RED Dragon Cinema Camera. There aren't that many cameras that can shoot 4k 120fps, the Sony FX3 and FX6, and newly released Canon C80. Many cinema camera offerings like the Black Magic Cinema Camera and Black Magic PYXIS and the RED Komodo are actually outperformed by the iPhone 16 Pro in this regard.

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[ChrisBrogan]

"How do I have a degree?" "The laws of displacement got the best of me.."

I would watch you do straight up stand up.

[xRekhyt]

Very informative and entertaining video. Love your sense of humor as well. Keep on keeping on! :)

[waitwhat]

This guy was supposed to be a poor student, but now he owns a red cinema camera??

[tanpreetsingh]

I just watched the video from you yesterday “I bought the cheapest RED camera on the internet” and after seeing this video, I just want to tell you……….excellent choice

[janniebassonSA]

wow that is a big file, which external drive did you use and do you recommend?

[mynameisChesto]

Apple should sponsor you. I think you just sold me on this phone.

[GlobalShutterNY]

Oversampling does make a huge difference in apparent sharpness and decreasing noise- that is why the Sony FX30 image outshines the FX3 (at base ISO) - oversampling! I actually am shooting more and more directly with my iPhone (15Pro) - Log - ProRes (but I use ProResLT and the Blackmagic app) directly to an external small SSD- it has amazed me! Shallow DOF and shooting in very low-light are still a challenge for the iPhone - simply the physics of a very small sensor.

[alessandro.favero]

I just want to say I’m always happy when you drop a new video 😊 did you ever find out what was wrong with the SSD?

[shaf]

Just bumped into your video and I subs keep that original self 😅

[RichardServello]

Now slap a lens rig on the iPhone and you’ll get the cinema edges.

[paulushdk]

I think these two devices are not comparable in a fair way. But i Love your video ;D

[RexVideos]

The 16 Pro has the same size main sensor as the 15 and 14. They only improved the read out speeds.

[Digibeatle]

One aspect that I wish to point out - whenever iPhone video footage is mentioned - is the physical limitations of the lens or lenses the iPhone (or any comparable smartphone) employs. Now I am not a physicist or engineer but - for decades at this stage - I’ve encountered very detailed explanations of why such and such lens is designed the way it is (and the starting point is that actual size of the various “pieces of optical glass” - the “elements” - the lens comprises - the relatively small “taking lens” on an iPhone must - I suspect - suffer in comparison). Has “image processing software” advanced to the stage that decades of “lens design know how” no longer is the determinant of the quality of the image captured ? The price of the Red camera is mentioned in this video - the price of even a medium quality motion picture lens may, itself, run into one to two thousand dollars (and I speak of a fixed focal length lens - not a zoom). So - basically - I am asking - has all this clever software made traditional notions of what constitutes a very high quality “taking lens” for motion picture capture redundant

[GabrielScindian]

How do you like the bomb evf. I was thinking about getting one for my dragon

[AobakweP]

I live in Botswana what can i do to find sameone like i love filmmaker ...and a youtuber

[TacticalTrucker]

_It’s probably your cord connected to the SSD the minimum transfer speed of a cord that you can use is no less than 10 Gb per second_

[MegaKorben]

May I ask who the guy is sitting in front of the red car-picture?

[RichardServello]

It’s binned not cropped. You’re correct.

[RichardServello]

Cables matter. A fast ssd doesn’t matter if you have a slow cable.

[Philippmtbenduro]

Nächster Videodreh mit steffen einfach mit dem I Phone 😂😂