iPhone 12 Pro Max + Hohem iSteady X gimbal + 15 foot carbon fiber selfie stick. Wide lens.

2021 Boston Freedom Rally / Hempfest

Any pro max users for video? My sister has one and I'm curious what your experiences are. she takes photos only with it but it seems capable of high quality video. I keep thinking that I should sell off most if not all of my unused cameras before they get fully devalued by each new phone iteration. I would've done far better to not buy them in the first place!

Apple started old games with slowing down smartphone, preparing for new iPhone 13 release

Accidentally they forgot to slow XR :-)

Another strange attempt to compare costs of iPhone 12 to previous gen by Counterpoint Technology Market Research.

In reality most components are not available on open market and prices are totally unknown.

iPhone 12 Pro Max is inside a case and attached to the Hohem iSteady X gimbal. The set up is on a 15 foot telescopic carbon fiber mast pole. On a long pole like that, it's tougher on any gimbal since the pole will shake a little with the wind. Still seams like it held up not to bad. I also have 25ft and 30ft versions but the collapsed size including the bolt at the end is close to 5’1” and 5’10.5” respectively in length and so it's a bit harder to transport than a pole that goes up to 15ft. Will try to use one of them in a future video. For sure it'll be tougher to hold especially if theirs wind. I almost bought the DJI OM4 but read that the claw barely holds the phone and would be even worse if you had a case on. I'd rather keep the case on my phone because you never know.

The camera wont go as high as a drone but you do gain a couple of benefits. Get to have higher shots in places where drones may not be allowed and you get the natural environment sound.

Used Smart Renderer 6 to trim out the beginning while I was raising the pole and to take out the sound in one part since I didn't want a content ID claim on the video. Sometimes your video will get blocked in certain countries when you get those. Unfortunately if you shoot multiple clips with this phone, the frame rate wont always be the same. Apple gives the new phones 10 bit Dolby Vision HDR shooting capabilities but still messes up the frame rate. Basically if you have a bunch of clips, a few of them wont get smart rendered if the frame rate is different. It's bad enough that Apple doesn't want to give any of their phones a memory card slot.

4K60 10 bit Dolby Vision HDR. Ultra wide angle lens.

The new TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 6 that came out in November 4 is fully compatible with the HDR files. Your able to trim or merge clips without loosing quality.

Hard to find a phone gimbal that works well with the iPhone 12 Pro MAX + case. The phone is either too heavy, too big, not able to balance properly or you don't have full motion.

@PauloTeixeira

Usually such thingy happens if smartphone is silently installing and optimizing something :-) Not related to 5g, as to get warm it needs to send and receive something at big amounts.

Native untouched file from the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Phone on top of a 9 foot selfie stick. 10 bit Dolby Vision HDR. Standard wide lens. 4K 60p. Not as stabile as the footage I did with the GoPro Hero 9 on the same pole using horizon leveling. Will be getting longer and stronger mast poles that I bought and will be putting a gimbal on it. Will be using the ultra wide lens with that. Footage should look a bit better with that set up.

Edit

Crap!!! Video just turned green and completely haywire after I used the YouTube feature to get rid of 15 seconds of the beginning. May be a while until the video goes back. Read afterwards that it wont work right for HDR videos. Wish I had known that earlier.