Love this comparison! Shows how far phone cameras have come, but also shows the reason why "real" camera are needed for sports if you want to get the best quality.
They're comparing a pro camera to an Apple product. That's like comparing an elite steakhouse to a McDonald's in the hood. Why are we talking about a 5x camera on a worthless iPhone when Samsung has been using far better 10x lenses on their phones for nearly half a decade? What a joke.
@@skankytrick because he's using an iPhone with 5x zoom which is what most of his audience including photographers use. Samsung is fine. Pixel is fine. But he's using an iPhone.
(Edit: props to Jared. As someone who's tried shooting baseball with a phone, his shots were crazy good for what he took them with. I know I couldn't do that.) Idk. I understand the direct comparison of 120mm vs 120mm. But the advantage of a dedicated camera is the ability to zoom with optics and change lenses. Like, yeah, phone sensors have come a long ways. But any sensor looks nice in good light or kept at base iso. Use the 5x at night, and then compare. But that's just me. Also, why not do an iPhone vs same cost photography setup comparison? Including used gear prices. Could get a D750 or D810 and 70-200mm for the 1500 of the iPhone. I know a photographer will most likely never trade their camera and lenses for a phone. But someone might be considering a phone or a camera, and showing the true differences and limits might be enough to push them to pick up photography
just wanted to leave the same comment. Nobody needs a Z9 to make those photos... even an old brick like the D3s (that's what I'm shooting) can make those pictures look like the Z9
I was going to post something similar. As far as I can see the 120mm iPhone setup is only 12MP so an older FX or DX Nikon setup with a used 70-200 would a contender here.
I’m kind of glad to hear this review. I’ve been shooting on pro cams for years, and frankly I’m kind of worn out from the cumbersome process of lugging a big cam around, dumping huge batches, and forcing myself to go back and edit photos from something where the moment has way passed. I’m kind of generally uninspired. I just recently ordered a 15 pro max upgrading from an XR. I’m kind of excited to see what I can get when the mood strikes me and it’s in my pocket, rather than loading up my gear and trying to “go get something”. I certainly won’t be getting rid of my pro cams, but I’m looking forward to having something pretty capable in my pocket at all times.
This is why I love this channel. A comparison without snark and that keeps things in perspective. Most people that take photos with an iPhone are doing so precisely because they don’t won’t to carry around a camera and/or spend the money on a “real” camera.
Snark on this channel is reserved for products and companies the Fro don't like. If the small sensor is on an iPhone he uses, it will be less criticized than if it is on a Micro Four thirds camera.
I actually didn't have any trouble finding which one was the Iphone in your comparisons : it always has more grain (or oversharpening - hard to tell as you're not zooming in), the bokeh is sometimes terrible, and the "real" camera shows the same amount of details while being a lot softer and natural to my eyes ... It would have been cool to compare it to a $1500 camera setup, like a D610 and a good used lens :)
You are totally right. Iphone doesn't produce a real bokeh. It just blurs parts of picture and it looks mushy like Jared usually would call it. Especially lights which are out of focus don't look that natural
@@pierrevilley6675 Always love this comparison,, can your 810 make calls, watch movies, email, message, GPS surf internet,,, etc etc etc,,, too be fair, lets say you use phone 25% for camera,, that comes to what,, $300,, I got my 15 Max for $600, so $150,, Oll take it,,,,
120mm (full frame equivalent) is a native focal length of the iPhone, but imagine you need to go a little wider. At 100mm you need to use the 24mm lens and apply a heavy crop. You will only use 5.76% of that already very tiny sensor. That is less than 1/1000 of the sensor size of full frame.
Fundamentally misunderstands the nature of computational processing in order to justify spending 4 figures on a fringe use case lens that will weigh 2-3 pounds. If you regularly need 100mm you already know it and no video is going to convince you one way or the other. Otherwise you're working backwards from your conclusions.
I got an iPhone 13 Pro 2 years ago think it’s fantastic. I have use cases for the iPhone, use cases for my mirrorless gear, and even use cases for my old Canon PowerShot S110. I think you illustrate that it’s about knowing the basics of photography and being familiar with the gear you have available.
Thanks for a cool video. For me, the most obvious difference between the two images was not in the bokeh rendition. It was the oversharpening in the iPhone pics. Where the bokeh looked good, I looked at the skin tones and the hair, and the iPhone looked a bit more like a plastic model, rather than lifelike.
This was something I was trying to determine. The oversharpening in the iPhone photo made it look like the pants and shirt had a texture on them that could absolutely be there, but evidently wasn't.
9:25 I admit, that's an impressive comparison side by side. I did find the camera on the right, but it was only because of the smoother more continuous blurring of the field.. I tried to see in the background differences in blur or bokeh.. but nothing super visible. impressive.
11:33 I was mistaken.. I thought the busier blur in the background was the iphone, but nop. 12:04 I applied my initial assumption and got it right; the blur is much more continuous over the field with the camera.. so also more natural But indeed, minor differences, provided as you say, that you do fill the frame
Lightroom classic has a feature now where you can create depth maps and add blur afterwards so that’s definitely something to keep in mind when thinking about using the iPhone
I'm "old," (retired) and gave away my "good" camera gear to my oldest son who is a serious hobbyist. I now have the iPhone 15 Pro Max and that is now my only camera. I like watching channels like this so I can see all of the great stuff I can do with it. I use the iPhone for more than just its camera, of course, but this is what I'm looking for when I come here.
For phones that capture depth data, usually when people find ways to extract the depth map, it becomes clear that the depth map is extremely low res, often around 0.5 megapixels for a 12 megpaixel image. They then rely on AI edge detection for the subject, but the end result is that the depth of field will look bad unless the background is far from the subject, and even then it will struggle with fine edge details where it is harder for the AI to figure out what is part of the subject and what is part of the background, since the depth map will not have any fine detail thus it cannot rely on depth info to help select the subject.
I am mostly a portrait photographer with some events here and there, and I am amazed by this! I can clearly tell between camera and iPhone because of the vignetting of the lens (And the Z9 has slightly nicer contrast than the iPhone!) But the fact that it's so close is amazing! I'mma put it like this: The quality is in there, the versatility isn't. So, I could probably take my portraits with an iPhone and no one would notice (I take mostly 50mm - 85mm), but would I take the iPhone to a wedding? Never. It just doesn't have the versatility of having more zoom, using Off-Camera Flash etc. (Of course no one in their right mind would switch their cameras for a phone but it was an example of how close this is :o)
Yeah, or for a couple hundred dollars more you could upgrade to Samsung and get a 10x better phone with a refined 10x optical zoom camera. I understand Apple people inherently are ignorant about all non-Apple technology in the world, but Samsung has been making amazing 10x optical lense/cameras in their phones for nearly half a decade. Samsung patented the whole periscope lens form factor that makes Apple's meager 5x lens even possible.
Very good review. I did not focus on the bokeh, more so on the dynamic range and that allowed for me to determine which was the iPhone or Nikon. Needless to say, the iPhone did extremely well.
this shows how much the mobile camera has grown. The only thing that shows a real camera is the real camera (on this video) is the white balance, the slight over sharpened and the bokeh.
That's a great comparison. Family loves taking phone photos but they also have some photo gear. I've shot weddings and events professionally for 13 years so it was pretty straightforward (colors, bokeh style, focusing "style") to nail the iPhone vs Camera shots every time. That isn't to diminish what mobile cameras are achieving because it's pretty nuts; but it's also nice to see a down-to-Earth video showing a challenging and fair comparison in an easy to understand way.
Thanks so much for posting a great comparison video with the new iPhone 15 Pro Max and a full frame Nikon with equivalent focal length lens setting. I’ve shot sports with a full frame Nikon and a 300 mm Nikon lens and had many great shots but there have been many occasions when I didn’t have all my gear along for the ride. What I did have was my iPhone. It’s nice to at least have something to capture the moment. I’m so glad to see the improvements that Apple has made with their cameras in the Pro Max model. My point here is that the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment. Sometimes, that’s just a lowly cellphone. 🤷🏻♀️ Thanks also for your tips about shooting with the iPhone and gaining access to the portrait features post shooting. I would have always selected RAW. Your channel is great!
Oversharpening and issues with white balance and some colours on stuff like foliage are the only real complaints for me with phone photos these days, for everyday moments they've gotten very good and if I didn't have some experience with real cameras I wouldn't have noticed these things
As a side-by-side comparison, I spotted the iPhone photo each time, BUT if I wasn't told so, I wouldn't have suspected it except for maybe the last 2 if I start pixel peeping.
The real camera and lens have a little vignetting which made it easy to tell once I saw that, but hey it's a dang phone with a tiny sensor, pretty damn good, that being said I I ordered a 15 Pro not max. I prefer the smaller size and price.
Can you export on lightroom mobile with enough quality for prints? It seems to me its locked on 70dpi and even when i only print 3x6 its pixelated (canon 80D with 100mm ef f2.8 L macro lens)
Thanks for the video! This is a great reminder that phone cameras have evolved a lot but still can't really compete with dedicated photography equipment. In the end, the application/need and expectations (as well as budget) should direct people to one equipment or the other.
I think Budget isn't really relevant because for the price of a 15 pro max you can get an amazing DSLR and lens that will destroy any phone and you still have some money left for a phone
@@lukassinger_photo Let's consider that's correct. How many people would opt to buy the camera instead of the phone? If you do not have capital constraints you can buy both but most people can't and many do not even care about owning a real camera.
Fast apertures aren’t just for depth of field..it’s for light gathering too. So it still won’t replace fast lenses but if you’re on a budget and can’t afford more than a slow zoom and shoot during the day you can use that feature absolutely
Harper is such a class act out there man! Contained his frustration and instead of doing the typical dugout temper tantrum flung his helmet to the fans! The iPhones look great but they just don't handle those bright neon lights very well. I'd never reach for my iPhone over my Alpha 1 but it's nice to have handy when I'm not out shooting or with the family!
Great video! Hey Jared, love your content! I’m interested in purchasing your presets. Could you please make a instructional video on getting your presets for LR Mobile for Apple devices. (iPad pro/ iPhone pro max) Thanks. 🙏🏽
at 9:00 I wasn't sure, but my pure guess was right. you could see the vignetting from the actual glass lens, even though I wasn't sure if that was a filter or not. also interesting to see that the glass and full frame sensor did seem to be letting more light in. thanks for the side by side comparison! if I was looking for a new phone and pocket ai computer, that also had a nice camera, i'd be tempted by the iPhone 15 pro max. lots of places and people get jittery these days if you pull out a traditional camera, but they don't blink twice if you pull out a phone with a camera and microphone that are connected via satellite to ai powered cloud servers. people are funny that way
Nice comparison. I have a Canon R5 with an array of L lenses. That said, my phone is always with me. Apple, Samsung and Pixel are all improving mobile phone photography. I find my big rig full frame often stays home these days. The new phone cameras are simply good enough in many cases.
As a Pittsburgher, it’s cool to see the photos of the Pirates vs. the Phillies! Not to mention the typical Angel Hernandez debacle!!! Great to see the comparison!
Really impressed by the iPhone considering the lack of lighting is pushing the limits of the 5x. I enjoy a bit of street photography but no longer have the time to spend on workflows and tweaking so hoping this is going to work well for me.
You also see some slight barrel vignetting that you don't get with the phone camera, but I do agree, the phone camera and its software has come so far it makes it difficult to tell the difference at first glance.
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Now you can shoot raw, edit it and then in Lightroom add their new future which blurs the background
This was a really great comparison/test with impressive results. Besides this specific test case the new iPhone 15 camera(s) seems to suck really bad using heavy cropping to get pictures at the old 'normal' focal lengths.
Jared! Did you get a photo of the helmet toss???!! Maybe you had too much lens to take it all in? Hopefully you sold it to MLB for a lifetime press pass so they could kill it.
I almost got the images wrong, but changed my mind last second, when I looked at the bokeh again. The fake-bokeh from the iphone still looks a lot like gaussian blur, while the Nikon has more err ‘texture’ to.
Such a creative and well-executed video! MagMirror could elevate your setup by offering real-time screen mirroring for perfect framing and adjustable LED lighting to match your artistic vision. Its portable design and powerful built-in battery make it a must-have for creators like you who are always innovating. Keep up the fantastic work!
the borderline on top of the helmet/blue sky and pants to green made the difference obvious very fast. The results are very, very impressiv .. but maybe should compare results and ergonomics to a cam in a similar price area as the iPhone 15 ?.. i wonder when C/N/S are putting some Phone features into their bodies (SIM).. - have the game reversed - can talk to your client whilst shooting, without having to carry a heavy cumbersom device to call..
Great video Jared, but I hate these comparison videos, maybe it's because I'm scared that phones are this good nowadays, but it's mostly because non-photographers pretend they know the trick of the trade because their phones takes (heavily processed) decent photos. Imho it's a difference between making a photo as a photographer and taking a photo with your phone. I have more of a problem with the people than the tech itself.
The batter is standing in one place. No matter how hard he is swinging, this is not action photography. Take it to a soccer field and track a player close enough for the 120. The extra sharpening of the iPhone is one tell. Another is the evenness of the lighting in the background. The 70 to 200 at 2.8 has obvious vignetting. You are also taking a picture without transitional bokeh. The background is far from the batter. Let's see how this looks with a soccer player surrounded by defenders. Personally, I would forget about the fake bokeh and use the natural bokeh of the iPhone telephoto shooting close. I use a Google pixel 6 Pro and the natural bokeh from the telephoto is quite nice. It isn't lost shooting raw. Still a very enjoyable review to watch. Great job!
Iphone, to me, looks like someone did a really decent job with masking and gaussian blur. The bokeh is far too consistent to mimic any real optical fall off. That being said, it looks damn good and at first glance and without any added context, I probably wouldn’t look twice
These Pro Photographer videos are really important to me. I held off for years with my iPhone 11 & will buy the 15 Pro Max. BUT! Those baseball shots show that the professional photographer CAN get better shots with a pro grade camera. I didn’t even know that capability existed.
Can you address what effects, if any, the prism in the 15 pro max has on image quality? My understanding is that reflecting an image off 4 surfaces before the sensor would lose light each time and introduce impurities…
Reflections internal to the prism are 100% reflectivity. Better than any mirror. Perceivable/measurable light path losses should be negligible. I understand that imperfections, surface flatness are never perfect. However if the loss is, say, 1/10th or 1/100th of a stop, image exposure-wise, it’s not impacting the result any more than a slightly miscalibrated aperture might.
I don't believe he made that claim. He said four of the "seven" lenses (there are actually just 3) are crops, and pointed out a lot of issues with a lot of things. But the 120mm wasn't among the fake lenses. His problem with the 120mm is that they had to sacrifice too much to reach that number. Among other things, it's functionally got a max aperture of f/21.
I noticed that on the iphone when it gets it right the bokeh balls are completely round , no lens distortion. If the photos are too good they were taken on the iPhone pro max or the pixel pro
these were some of the harder photos to tell apart in these kinds of comparisons. to be honest the same thing still rings true, the cutting out of the hair and the ways it computes the out of focus blue. they are way better then they have ever been which is impressive. but its still a pretty big give away. even on one of the shots there was a little fluff on the shirt that caught a little light from the big stadium lighting and it showed up on the real camera but the phone blured it away. again... for a phone this is the best I have seen. for me the buttons and dials and control you get with a real camera will always win out over a phone
I had a teenager looking at some of the images I took with a real camera and they said it looked like I went too far with blurring the background of a portrait making it look fake. When I tried explaining to them that this is not fake, but the results of a shallow depth of field on a wide aperture lens, they had a hard time grasping the idea. At some point more people may prefer fake bokeh to real bokeh.
@@RichardFraser-y9t true, but holding a phone is not ergonomic. If you want to film for longer or take pictures from high or low angles its really hard. I mean you dont have a tilt screen for holding it near the floor.
Very interesting comparison Fro! I still maintain that no matter how much “technology” Apple or anyone else throws at the phone camera, it will always be inferior to a “real camera” in at least 2 aspects: print size and ergonomics, the former simply because of the sensor size disparity, and the latter due to shape, button/control placement. That said, I agree that most people aren’t as analytical about image quality as you or I are. So, I too, use an iPhone, for things other than serious photography.
well I mean yeah iPhone does add foreground blur now. Thats what makes it "more advanced" compared to other smartphones. But it won't work at that kind of distance yet. Also, I would have attached a lens. I wouldn't have used a naked phone camera if I wanted the best image possible at a baseball game. Also a tele lens attachment will add natural bokeh too. Any phone I have I would attach a lens if I wanted to get real good photos of subjects that are far away.
I dont really know what he is about, but i really didn't had any trouble spererating which Photo is from the Z9 and which not. I mean i get it, the Phones are getting better and better, but u will always see the differnce for at least the next 3-5 years probably even longer as the "real" Cameras are getting better as well
I got all the challenges correct, i can tell by how you ask the player to make his bat on his shoulder to avoid having a small gap that the phone can't process, again it's impressive stuff and if you know how to pose your model and avoid the limitations you will get really good results.
Peace be with you! Thank you for this informative companion. Is it possible to shoot photos, using the iPhone 15, in difficult lighting & rapidly moving subjects then FIXING THE PHOTOS by using an AI photo editor such as Topaz Labs Photo AI software??? Thanks again.
Professional photography equipment isn't just about getting great image quality. It's about getting great image quality in any situation.
I know right... consistently great pic in any moment, not only few 'nice' pictures
iPhone can take pictures in almost every possible situation.
@@stevemuzak8526 lol iphone sucks. you'll never know that if you don't get your hands on a real camera.
@@stevemuzak8526any phone can take pictures in any condition but they are taking about good picture quality in any condition 👍
@@stevemuzak8526not really. Wildlife (birds in flight) and macro are just not the same. Low light long exposure. Sunburst shots…etc etc
"If that F doesn't show up..." then you're effed.
Love this comparison! Shows how far phone cameras have come, but also shows the reason why "real" camera are needed for sports if you want to get the best quality.
They're comparing a pro camera to an Apple product. That's like comparing an elite steakhouse to a McDonald's in the hood. Why are we talking about a 5x camera on a worthless iPhone when Samsung has been using far better 10x lenses on their phones for nearly half a decade? What a joke.
@@skankytrick because he's using an iPhone with 5x zoom which is what most of his audience including photographers use. Samsung is fine. Pixel is fine. But he's using an iPhone.
@@skankytrick- because it isn’t. The lens on the Samsung is garbage.
@@skankytrick bro really out here trynna say that samsung 10x is actually usable at all lmfao
@@roadrunner76b The Samsung 10x lens is literally one of the worst. Noisy at lowest ISO and still soft
(Edit: props to Jared. As someone who's tried shooting baseball with a phone, his shots were crazy good for what he took them with. I know I couldn't do that.)
Idk. I understand the direct comparison of 120mm vs 120mm.
But the advantage of a dedicated camera is the ability to zoom with optics and change lenses.
Like, yeah, phone sensors have come a long ways. But any sensor looks nice in good light or kept at base iso.
Use the 5x at night, and then compare. But that's just me.
Also, why not do an iPhone vs same cost photography setup comparison? Including used gear prices.
Could get a D750 or D810 and 70-200mm for the 1500 of the iPhone.
I know a photographer will most likely never trade their camera and lenses for a phone. But someone might be considering a phone or a camera, and showing the true differences and limits might be enough to push them to pick up photography
Yes, I thinking of a comparison of a much lower cost real camera and lens.
just wanted to leave the same comment. Nobody needs a Z9 to make those photos... even an old brick like the D3s (that's what I'm shooting) can make those pictures look like the Z9
I was going to post something similar.
As far as I can see the 120mm iPhone setup is only 12MP so an older FX or DX Nikon setup with a used 70-200 would a contender here.
New Sony 6700 is $1400 cheaper than phone even with a prime. Would be a great comparison
Was thinking the same thing, a D810 with a 70-200 VR1 is a 1400€ setup.
I’m kind of glad to hear this review. I’ve been shooting on pro cams for years, and frankly I’m kind of worn out from the cumbersome process of lugging a big cam around, dumping huge batches, and forcing myself to go back and edit photos from something where the moment has way passed. I’m kind of generally uninspired. I just recently ordered a 15 pro max upgrading from an XR. I’m kind of excited to see what I can get when the mood strikes me and it’s in my pocket, rather than loading up my gear and trying to “go get something”. I certainly won’t be getting rid of my pro cams, but I’m looking forward to having something pretty capable in my pocket at all times.
This is why I love this channel. A comparison without snark and that keeps things in perspective. Most people that take photos with an iPhone are doing so precisely because they don’t won’t to carry around a camera and/or spend the money on a “real” camera.
Snark on this channel is reserved for products and companies the Fro don't like. If the small sensor is on an iPhone he uses, it will be less criticized than if it is on a Micro Four thirds camera.
@@ElMundoDuro exactly right. I am amazed how forgiving most TH-camr reviewers seem to be of the iphone's obvoius flaws .
haha yeah i'm a fan of the Fro snark, and i appreciate that he doesn't just have it on all the time
But yet they will buy a new $1300/$1500 phone every few years whereas a camera from 2014 can still do incredibly well.
I actually didn't have any trouble finding which one was the Iphone in your comparisons : it always has more grain (or oversharpening - hard to tell as you're not zooming in), the bokeh is sometimes terrible, and the "real" camera shows the same amount of details while being a lot softer and natural to my eyes ...
It would have been cool to compare it to a $1500 camera setup, like a D610 and a good used lens :)
You are totally right. Iphone doesn't produce a real bokeh. It just blurs parts of picture and it looks mushy like Jared usually would call it. Especially lights which are out of focus don't look that natural
I agree for the price comparison. with 1500$ you can get a D810 and 70-200 2.8 VR1
@@pierrevilley6675 Always love this comparison,, can your 810 make calls, watch movies, email, message, GPS surf internet,,, etc etc etc,,, too be fair, lets say you use phone 25% for camera,, that comes to what,, $300,, I got my 15 Max for $600, so $150,, Oll take it,,,,
120mm (full frame equivalent) is a native focal length of the iPhone, but imagine you need to go a little wider. At 100mm you need to use the 24mm lens and apply a heavy crop. You will only use 5.76% of that already very tiny sensor. That is less than 1/1000 of the sensor size of full frame.
Fundamentally misunderstands the nature of computational processing in order to justify spending 4 figures on a fringe use case lens that will weigh 2-3 pounds. If you regularly need 100mm you already know it and no video is going to convince you one way or the other. Otherwise you're working backwards from your conclusions.
I got an iPhone 13 Pro 2 years ago think it’s fantastic. I have use cases for the iPhone, use cases for my mirrorless gear, and even use cases for my old Canon PowerShot S110. I think you illustrate that it’s about knowing the basics of photography and being familiar with the gear you have available.
Thanks for a cool video. For me, the most obvious difference between the two images was not in the bokeh rendition. It was the oversharpening in the iPhone pics. Where the bokeh looked good, I looked at the skin tones and the hair, and the iPhone looked a bit more like a plastic model, rather than lifelike.
This was something I was trying to determine. The oversharpening in the iPhone photo made it look like the pants and shirt had a texture on them that could absolutely be there, but evidently wasn't.
And i would like to zoom in to 100 percent hahahaha
Everything looks HDR out of iPhone
9:25 I admit, that's an impressive comparison side by side. I did find the camera on the right, but it was only because of the smoother more continuous blurring of the field.. I tried to see in the background differences in blur or bokeh.. but nothing super visible. impressive.
11:33 I was mistaken.. I thought the busier blur in the background was the iphone, but nop.
12:04 I applied my initial assumption and got it right; the blur is much more continuous over the field with the camera.. so also more natural
But indeed, minor differences, provided as you say, that you do fill the frame
Lightroom classic has a feature now where you can create depth maps and add blur afterwards so that’s definitely something to keep in mind when thinking about using the iPhone
Mobile has blur also.
I'm "old," (retired) and gave away my "good" camera gear to my oldest son who is a serious hobbyist. I now have the iPhone 15 Pro Max and that is now my only camera. I like watching channels like this so I can see all of the great stuff I can do with it. I use the iPhone for more than just its camera, of course, but this is what I'm looking for when I come here.
For phones that capture depth data, usually when people find ways to extract the depth map, it becomes clear that the depth map is extremely low res, often around 0.5 megapixels for a 12 megpaixel image. They then rely on AI edge detection for the subject, but the end result is that the depth of field will look bad unless the background is far from the subject, and even then it will struggle with fine edge details where it is harder for the AI to figure out what is part of the subject and what is part of the background, since the depth map will not have any fine detail thus it cannot rely on depth info to help select the subject.
I am mostly a portrait photographer with some events here and there, and I am amazed by this!
I can clearly tell between camera and iPhone because of the vignetting of the lens (And the Z9 has slightly nicer contrast than the iPhone!) But the fact that it's so close is amazing!
I'mma put it like this: The quality is in there, the versatility isn't. So, I could probably take my portraits with an iPhone and no one would notice (I take mostly 50mm - 85mm), but would I take the iPhone to a wedding? Never. It just doesn't have the versatility of having more zoom, using Off-Camera Flash etc.
(Of course no one in their right mind would switch their cameras for a phone but it was an example of how close this is :o)
Yeah, or for a couple hundred dollars more you could upgrade to Samsung and get a 10x better phone with a refined 10x optical zoom camera. I understand Apple people inherently are ignorant about all non-Apple technology in the world, but Samsung has been making amazing 10x optical lense/cameras in their phones for nearly half a decade. Samsung patented the whole periscope lens form factor that makes Apple's meager 5x lens even possible.
I just got anxiety at the very thought of taking an iPhone to shoot a wedding!! Lol and I almost never get anxiety.
I think the statement "it wouldn't be my first choice" is key. It's nice to have, especially in cases where you might not have your camera.
Very good review. I did not focus on the bokeh, more so on the dynamic range and that allowed for me to determine which was the iPhone or Nikon. Needless to say, the iPhone did extremely well.
this shows how much the mobile camera has grown. The only thing that shows a real camera is the real camera (on this video) is the white balance, the slight over sharpened and the bokeh.
This is what I wanted to see for a long time. You are the 1st person who makes a video on this ❤
That's a great comparison. Family loves taking phone photos but they also have some photo gear. I've shot weddings and events professionally for 13 years so it was pretty straightforward (colors, bokeh style, focusing "style") to nail the iPhone vs Camera shots every time. That isn't to diminish what mobile cameras are achieving because it's pretty nuts; but it's also nice to see a down-to-Earth video showing a challenging and fair comparison in an easy to understand way.
Maybe I’ve been a photographer too long, but every time you say “you can hardly tell a difference”, I chuckle. Yes, decent snapshots, but…no.
I was also immediately able to tell, but the difference is still quite subtle, which is honestly impressive.
I just got my pro max today. I tried out the 5X lens. But when I select the lens. It is still using the 24mm to crop into 5X. How do I fix this?
It’s insanely good, I hear you can actually make phone calls on it as well?? 😂👌🏻👍🏻
Thanks so much for posting a great comparison video with the new iPhone 15 Pro Max and a full frame Nikon with equivalent focal length lens setting. I’ve shot sports with a full frame Nikon and a 300 mm Nikon lens and had many great shots but there have been many occasions when I didn’t have all my gear along for the ride. What I did have was my iPhone. It’s nice to at least have something to capture the moment. I’m so glad to see the improvements that Apple has made with their cameras in the Pro Max model. My point here is that the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment. Sometimes, that’s just a lowly cellphone. 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks also for your tips about shooting with the iPhone and gaining access to the portrait features post shooting. I would have always selected RAW. Your channel is great!
Oversharpening and issues with white balance and some colours on stuff like foliage are the only real complaints for me with phone photos these days, for everyday moments they've gotten very good and if I didn't have some experience with real cameras I wouldn't have noticed these things
As a side-by-side comparison, I spotted the iPhone photo each time, BUT if I wasn't told so, I wouldn't have suspected it except for maybe the last 2 if I start pixel peeping.
I got all three correct as well.
guys, is that portrait data thingy on the 14 pro max too? or just the 15 and up?
What about Calls? Does the Canon have a Speaker for hands free?
My only critique is your referring to the "catcher" as the "umpire"... 😶🙄😂
3rd party apps can allow changing iso and shutter speed?
The real camera and lens have a little vignetting which made it easy to tell once I saw that, but hey it's a dang phone with a tiny sensor, pretty damn good, that being said I I ordered a 15 Pro not max. I prefer the smaller size and price.
Why did you changed your Tshert to red ?
Can you export on lightroom mobile with enough quality for prints? It seems to me its locked on 70dpi and even when i only print 3x6 its pixelated (canon 80D with 100mm ef f2.8 L macro lens)
that’s really good. But you only compared the 12 mpx sensor, now I wonder what the 48 mpx sensor does?
Great video...and cool that you caught this moment. How Angel Hernandez is still employed is miraculous 😂
Would love to see your review like this on the sony Xperia 1 mkv as that has controls close to their mirrorless cameras,
Thanks for the video! This is a great reminder that phone cameras have evolved a lot but still can't really compete with dedicated photography equipment. In the end, the application/need and expectations (as well as budget) should direct people to one equipment or the other.
I think Budget isn't really relevant because for the price of a 15 pro max you can get an amazing DSLR and lens that will destroy any phone and you still have some money left for a phone
@@lukassinger_photo Let's consider that's correct. How many people would opt to buy the camera instead of the phone? If you do not have capital constraints you can buy both but most people can't and many do not even care about owning a real camera.
Due to sharpening it's recognizable which one is which.
Does z9 and 70-200 cost 10k in the us?
what a good comparision video, well explained, tks mate, great content!
Well, Lightroom offers lens blur now that can automatically detect depth info and you can choose what to focus like subject or point it out anywhere.
Fast apertures aren’t just for depth of field..it’s for light gathering too. So it still won’t replace fast lenses but if you’re on a budget and can’t afford more than a slow zoom and shoot during the day you can use that feature absolutely
The Google Pixel 8 Pro also has a 5x camera. Will you have a chance to evaluate it, also?
Harper is such a class act out there man! Contained his frustration and instead of doing the typical dugout temper tantrum flung his helmet to the fans! The iPhones look great but they just don't handle those bright neon lights very well. I'd never reach for my iPhone over my Alpha 1 but it's nice to have handy when I'm not out shooting or with the family!
Great video! Hey Jared, love your content! I’m interested in purchasing your presets. Could you please make a instructional video on getting your presets for LR Mobile for Apple devices. (iPad pro/ iPhone pro max) Thanks. 🙏🏽
You can shoot portraits with the phone. You can shoot high school portrait photos...
at 9:00 I wasn't sure, but my pure guess was right. you could see the vignetting from the actual glass lens, even though I wasn't sure if that was a filter or not. also interesting to see that the glass and full frame sensor did seem to be letting more light in. thanks for the side by side comparison! if I was looking for a new phone and pocket ai computer, that also had a nice camera, i'd be tempted by the iPhone 15 pro max. lots of places and people get jittery these days if you pull out a traditional camera, but they don't blink twice if you pull out a phone with a camera and microphone that are connected via satellite to ai powered cloud servers. people are funny that way
Try new lightroom background blur that was added in the latest update
Hi! Do iPhone collect data to make portraits after when using HEIF MAX format?
Or maybe can you shoot in portrait mode with HEIF MAX?
Nice comparison. I have a Canon R5 with an array of L lenses. That said, my phone is always with me. Apple, Samsung and Pixel are all improving mobile phone photography. I find my big rig full frame often stays home these days. The new phone cameras are simply good enough in many cases.
Same boat as me.
For trips and everyday my Z Fold 4 is more than enough.
My A7 III is now 95% of the time used only for construction inspection now.
what about samsung s23 ultra zoom lens?
As a Pittsburgher, it’s cool to see the photos of the Pirates vs. the Phillies! Not to mention the typical Angel Hernandez debacle!!!
Great to see the comparison!
4:30 you have to use other apps like focos :) and it will that work with foreground :)
Lightroom classic v13 update means you can now adjust focus/blur (in post) using the raw instead of Apple’s Heic/heif files right?
Really impressed by the iPhone considering the lack of lighting is pushing the limits of the 5x. I enjoy a bit of street photography but no longer have the time to spend on workflows and tweaking so hoping this is going to work well for me.
You also see some slight barrel vignetting that you don't get with the phone camera, but I do agree, the phone camera and its software has come so far it makes it difficult to tell the difference at first glance.
Now you can shoot raw, edit it and then in Lightroom add their new future which blurs the background
Where’s the “zoom in” photo comparison? Or, quality from printing a poster size image?
This was a really great comparison/test with impressive results.
Besides this specific test case the new iPhone 15 camera(s) seems to suck really bad using heavy cropping to get pictures at the old 'normal' focal lengths.
U should compare with APS C camera which is below $1000
Crazy how far we have come!
Hey. I upgraded to the IPhone 15 pro and love it. I am taking more photos using my phone. I enjoyed the video. Thanks for the content and hard work.
Jared! Did you get a photo of the helmet toss???!! Maybe you had too much lens to take it all in? Hopefully you sold it to MLB for a lifetime press pass so they could kill it.
I almost got the images wrong, but changed my mind last second, when I looked at the bokeh again. The fake-bokeh from the iphone still looks a lot like gaussian blur, while the Nikon has more err ‘texture’ to.
Can you do a samsung s23 ultra comparison too?
Such a creative and well-executed video! MagMirror could elevate your setup by offering real-time screen mirroring for perfect framing and adjustable LED lighting to match your artistic vision. Its portable design and powerful built-in battery make it a must-have for creators like you who are always innovating. Keep up the fantastic work!
For me there was a clear difference and it was in the colour rendition. The iPhone looked very muddy and the Nikon was very crisp and vibrant.
Thanks for showing some motion. The difference in the bat and the ball was what I was looking for.
Great comparison video. The heavy vignetting on the ‘real’ camera was the biggest difference lol!
never had a hard time telling them iphone and any small sensor is always gonna have that over sharpend look even if the fake bokeh cutout is perfect
I saw you on TV when you ran on the field! Its awsome where photography has taken you.
the borderline on top of the helmet/blue sky and pants to green made the difference obvious very fast. The results are very, very impressiv .. but maybe should compare results and ergonomics to a cam in a similar price area as the iPhone 15 ?.. i wonder when C/N/S are putting some Phone features into their bodies (SIM).. - have the game reversed - can talk to your client whilst shooting, without having to carry a heavy cumbersom device to call..
Great video Jared, but I hate these comparison videos, maybe it's because I'm scared that phones are this good nowadays, but it's mostly because non-photographers pretend they know the trick of the trade because their phones takes (heavily processed) decent photos. Imho it's a difference between making a photo as a photographer and taking a photo with your phone. I have more of a problem with the people than the tech itself.
Great video Jared , loved the comparison. I am still very touched by the presentation you made talking about your mum. Thank you for your work
The batter is standing in one place. No matter how hard he is swinging, this is not action photography. Take it to a soccer field and track a player close enough for the 120. The extra sharpening of the iPhone is one tell. Another is the evenness of the lighting in the background. The 70 to 200 at 2.8 has obvious vignetting. You are also taking a picture without transitional bokeh. The background is far from the batter. Let's see how this looks with a soccer player surrounded by defenders. Personally, I would forget about the fake bokeh and use the natural bokeh of the iPhone telephoto shooting close. I use a Google pixel 6 Pro and the natural bokeh from the telephoto is quite nice. It isn't lost shooting raw. Still a very enjoyable review to watch. Great job!
Iphone, to me, looks like someone did a really decent job with masking and gaussian blur. The bokeh is far too consistent to mimic any real optical fall off. That being said, it looks damn good and at first glance and without any added context, I probably wouldn’t look twice
A 10k camera may have the edge but what about mid range setups? Are they finaly redundant?
No
9:26 not really. The grass is what gave it away for me. But I must admit nothing else looked "off"
These Pro Photographer videos are really important to me. I held off for years with my iPhone 11 & will buy the 15 Pro Max. BUT! Those baseball shots show that the professional photographer CAN get better shots with a pro grade camera. I didn’t even know that capability existed.
Can you address what effects, if any, the prism in the 15 pro max has on image quality? My understanding is that reflecting an image off 4 surfaces before the sensor would lose light each time and introduce impurities…
Reflections internal to the prism are 100% reflectivity. Better than any mirror. Perceivable/measurable light path losses should be negligible. I understand that imperfections, surface flatness are never perfect. However if the loss is, say, 1/10th or 1/100th of a stop, image exposure-wise, it’s not impacting the result any more than a slightly miscalibrated aperture might.
9:00 I got it right!🔥
I could tell by looking at the path next to the batter.
please make a comparison video between Sony Xperia 1v vs professional camera Gear like this. and you should make it though.
I didn’t know the pro setup would vignette that much … 🤔… using that flaw, I was able to see the difference every time. 😐
Tony N claimed the iphone 15 pro max 120mm lens is just cropped, is it true?
I don't believe he made that claim. He said four of the "seven" lenses (there are actually just 3) are crops, and pointed out a lot of issues with a lot of things. But the 120mm wasn't among the fake lenses. His problem with the 120mm is that they had to sacrifice too much to reach that number. Among other things, it's functionally got a max aperture of f/21.
Oh my god Jared actually used the Nikon display for once!!
I noticed that on the iphone when it gets it right the bokeh balls are completely round , no lens distortion.
If the photos are too good they were taken on the iPhone pro max or the pixel pro
you shouldve used the pro cam app to control the shutter speed
these were some of the harder photos to tell apart in these kinds of comparisons. to be honest the same thing still rings true, the cutting out of the hair and the ways it computes the out of focus blue. they are way better then they have ever been which is impressive. but its still a pretty big give away.
even on one of the shots there was a little fluff on the shirt that caught a little light from the big stadium lighting and it showed up on the real camera but the phone blured it away.
again... for a phone this is the best I have seen.
for me the buttons and dials and control you get with a real camera will always win out over a phone
I had a teenager looking at some of the images I took with a real camera and they said it looked like I went too far with blurring the background of a portrait making it look fake. When I tried explaining to them that this is not fake, but the results of a shallow depth of field on a wide aperture lens, they had a hard time grasping the idea. At some point more people may prefer fake bokeh to real bokeh.
The “real” cameras vignette is much more noticeable. Looks like iPhones camera adds a lens correction from the get-go.
I want to see a review of the s23 ultra 240mm lens
The main issue with using the phone, for me, is the form factor.
A lot of people have the same issues, for them a back pack full of camera and lens Vs a phone makes the phone the obvious choice.
@@RichardFraser-y9t true, but holding a phone is not ergonomic. If you want to film for longer or take pictures from high or low angles its really hard. I mean you dont have a tilt screen for holding it near the floor.
Very interesting comparison Fro! I still maintain that no matter how much “technology” Apple or anyone else throws at the phone camera, it will always be inferior to a “real camera” in at least 2 aspects: print size and ergonomics, the former simply because of the sensor size disparity, and the latter due to shape, button/control placement. That said, I agree that most people aren’t as analytical about image quality as you or I are. So, I too, use an iPhone, for things other than serious photography.
I dont know if iphone pic was processed or it took 20 atempts to get a good pic.
This is the game I was at when I saw Jared on the field!!
well I mean yeah iPhone does add foreground blur now. Thats what makes it "more advanced" compared to other smartphones. But it won't work at that kind of distance yet. Also, I would have attached a lens. I wouldn't have used a naked phone camera if I wanted the best image possible at a baseball game. Also a tele lens attachment will add natural bokeh too. Any phone I have I would attach a lens if I wanted to get real good photos of subjects that are far away.
I dont really know what he is about, but i really didn't had any trouble spererating which Photo is from the Z9 and which not. I mean i get it, the Phones are getting better and better, but u will always see the differnce for at least the next 3-5 years probably even longer as the "real" Cameras are getting better as well
Excellent comparison! Thank you for the detailed information.
Great take on this Jared. Love, and agree with your comments regarding this.
I got all the challenges correct, i can tell by how you ask the player to make his bat on his shoulder to avoid having a small gap that the phone can't process, again it's impressive stuff and if you know how to pose your model and avoid the limitations you will get really good results.
Peace be with you! Thank you for this informative companion. Is it possible to shoot photos, using the iPhone 15, in difficult lighting & rapidly moving subjects then FIXING THE PHOTOS by using an AI photo editor such as Topaz Labs Photo AI software??? Thanks again.
Nailed #2 as well! Yoi spilled the beans on #3 too quickly lol didn't have time to examine
Hey! I would like to see a comparison of prints. Wont they look worlds of difference in a huge print due to the quality and size of sensors?