What camera do you use if you are into photography, when cycling

[Aushiker]

do you clean your iphone lens before taking a picture?

Not owning an iPhone, no

 

[Catalyzt]

I do have to admit that iPhones seems to take better low-light gig photos than my mirrorless. I could probably get there with the R100, I can get results that are very similar, but I can't quite match the best iPhone shots.

I think it's doing some kind of on-board processing, because the iPhone photos seem to be more flattering than not only the R100 but also the mirror. I'm a little suspicious!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I do have to admit that iPhones seems to take better low-light gig photos than my mirrorless. I could probably get there with the R100, I can get results that are very similar, but I can't quite match the best iPhone shots.

I think it's doing some kind of on-board processing, because the iPhone photos seem to be more flattering than not only the R100 but also the mirror. I'm a little suspicious!

That is correct. One of my friends is a Professor of Movie Art in London. It was the last decade when he showed a gig video shot with an iPhone to me and said with some indignation: 'This vid is better than what we could shoot with our professional equipment!" Of course, he would need to prepare the stage, and provide lighting to be able to make use of his professional gear. He was under a great impression of the wide-angle lens of iPhone!

 

[Chargeride]

The latest phones like the iphone and the Samsung ultras do levels of imaging process that pretty well make the images AI, they take multiple images at once and blend them all together.
They recognise all the objects in a scene and process them differently to end up with a shot that resembles our idealised notion of the perfect picture.

Its just trying and quite often succeeding to recreate professional level photography that would require a crew with multiple light sources and diffusers.

Soon every picture taken will be 'repaired' by AI to look like a magazine cover and people will stop using mirrors and relying on their digital appearance for self worth.

It will get so batshoot crazy that we will eventually go back to film to restore our sanity

 

[6zfshdb]

do you clean your iphone lens before taking a picture?

I use these lens protectors which I occasionally clean with an alcohol wipe.

For macro shots, or those requiring maximum clarity, I just pop off the protectors.

 

[Catalyzt]

That is correct. One of my friends is a Professor of Movie Art in London. It was the last decade when he showed a gig video shot with an iPhone to me and said with some indignation: 'This vid is better than what we could shoot with our professional equipment!" Of course, he would need to prepare the stage, and provide lighting to be able to make use of his professional gear. He was under a great impression of the wide-angle lens of iPhone!

For video, where the R100 (and the Fuji X-A5) has a huge advantage is audio. I think it may be slightly better than standalone audio recording w/ a Zoom field recorder w/ built in microphones, though I haven't done a head-to-head comparison. If there is a way to get good stereo audio on iPhone video, we haven't found it yet!

Just a basic $80 stereo camera mic provides astonishing results. So we are often in a situation where we'll use the R100 locked down on sticksfor the master shot-- I'll rip out the audio, run it through Reaper and just do a little EQ, maybe use Ozone in mastering (which does employ some crude AI). Then, export the audio and drop it back into the video.

If we have folks in the audience running around and shooting w/ iPhones from different angles, we'll then use so much of that footage that it's maybe 65% iPhone footage and 35% R100.

There are multiple issues w/ iPhone audio, but the two main ones are: It keeps trying to adjust the audio when you zoom in or move, and whatever it's doing always seems to sound terrible. Also, no one can figure out how to shut off the noise reduction, and again, if it's possible to connect a stereo mic and capture audio while shooting video, none of us have figured it out.