10 Years: iPhone 4 to 13 Pro Cinematic

After dropping my iPhone XS in a swamp, I've been stuck with a 2010 iPhone 4 until the new iPhone 13 Pro came out.
In this video, we look back at the video quality of the iPhone 4 as I take the subway to the new Apple store at the end of the Bronx line. We'll then compare the footage to the new iPhone 13 Pro Cinematic Mode at Governor's Ball music festival.
00:00 iPhone Day.
01:22 iPhone 4 footage quality review
03:52 Unboxing New iPhone 13 Pro
04:31 iPhone. 13 Pro footage quality review
05:49 Cinematic Mode
07:47 Manual Focus Locking

[@RayFranklin]

Great demo

[@davidjoshuaford]

Thanks Ray

[@fumpt]

Great video, Dave. What stood out to me most is how much smoother and better stabilised the indoor GoPro footage looked compared to iPhone 13. Did you have shutter locked on either or both? Was the iPhone 13 footage here captured in ProRes?

[@davidjoshuaford]

Hey Andrew! No special settings or post production used here. The GoPro stabilization is amazing, and li like the horizon leveling feature too - means you don’t have to concentrate very hard operating other than pointing in the general direction. I believe prores is yet to come in an Apple update; at the moment only FilmicPro can shoot with Prores but I’m yet to test that. All this was 10bit HDR H265. Pretty solid performing codec for the space. The challenge is going to be that lightning is USB2 and super slow when transferring hundreds of gigs…

[@martinjohnsoncomms]

I'm intrigued. How do you adjust the focus point in post?

[@davidjoshuaford]

Hi Martin - Same as how you edit the focus in Portrait photo mode - just open the Photos app on the phone and adjust "aperture" and the focus point.

[@martinjohnsoncomms]

Ah OK. I thought when you said it could be 'adjusted in post', you meant in the edit suite, ie in post-production. Thanks

[@davidjoshuaford]

There is a metadata side car. I expect that the files would be editable in final cut and iMovie at some stage. I downloaded these files via Image Capture there are actually 2 files: the original focus plane, and a second copy with the focus mapping rendered in. So in Resolve I was just flicking between those two files to show the mapping.