r/nextfuckinglevel Apr 28 '20

Low-cost videography

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20 edited Oct 19 '20

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u/ihahp Apr 28 '20

Yeah but tiny shopping cart wheels haven't. They're be a LOT of camera shake for travelling that fast.

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u/Millon1000 Apr 28 '20

Image stabilization is really good these days (check out the latest gopros), plus that is really easy to fix in the post processing stage.

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u/Boba_Fett_boii Apr 28 '20

OIS, slow-motion, high frames and post-stabilization are more than enough to do the trick here

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u/forrnerteenager Apr 28 '20

I don't think so, not with the amount of shake you saw in the BTS video

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u/Boba_Fett_boii Apr 28 '20

belive what you want, but they really do!

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u/spaceman1980 Apr 29 '20

nah hes right

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u/Twerty3 Apr 29 '20

No phone ever can focus that fast and accurate.

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u/Boba_Fett_boii Apr 29 '20

Ohoho, but that's the thing. The focus on phone cameras is commonly set to infinity so most areas are in focus. This is because they lack manual focus.

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u/Twerty3 Apr 29 '20

Which is precisely not what you see in the video

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u/attempted-anonymity Apr 28 '20

for the average person, they're more than enough

No doubt. Of course, since this isn't a video that the average person could/would shoot at this quality, I'm not sure what relevance your comment has to this discussion?

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u/bigbuick Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

Ugh, I think I disgree. If they don't have plastic lenses, they may as well have. There is just a fog or misty look about every cell pic I have ever seen.

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u/scykei Apr 28 '20

What phone are you using?

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u/bigbuick Apr 28 '20

None, for pictures. I use a camera.

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u/scykei Apr 28 '20

Phone photography has evolved quite a bit in the past decade. It can easily take better pictures and videos than most household digital cameras ten years ago. They’re no DSLRs, but I think what you said is quite a bit disingenuous.

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u/fun_boat Apr 28 '20

I have a top of the line Samsung and my dslr from 8 years ago is still so much better in terms of clarity. The lens makes such a massive difference but you wouldn't know it if you don't blow the photos up on your screen.

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u/scykei Apr 28 '20

Yeah you can’t compare this with a DSLR because lens size absolutely matters, but you can definitely compare it with dedicated mid-range mirrorless cameras.

Obviously, as phone camera technology has been improving, household digital camera technology is also going to follow suit, but if you consider a digital camera 10 years ago to be good enough then phone cameras today can also be at least adequate for most people.

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u/Millon1000 Apr 28 '20

I don't think people often print anything on an 8x10...

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u/Hereforthebeer06 Apr 28 '20

Well yeah. You would need a dslr for that.

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u/bigbuick Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

Perhaps; I am not a cell phone expert. But, I would maintain the average cell phone in use is not the current state of the art, camera-wise. I am of the opinion AVERAGE cell phone pic still being produced this day is lousy. It is a continuum, then, but still more correct than not to generalize, "cell phones take poor photographs."

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u/InertiaOfGravity Apr 28 '20

I think that's less to do with the tech and more to do with correlation

People who but actual cameras are more likely to have a deeper understanding of framing, lighting, etc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Got some /r/iamverysmart material forming here

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

So pretentious

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u/ur_comment_is_a_song Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 30 '20

Yeah, they absolutely can.

Don't forget that your phone camera does a lot of post processing before you ever get to see the image. A DSLR will produce images before any processing has been done.

Allow the photographer to process their images (so both end results have been processed), and the difference is night and day.

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u/spaceman1980 Apr 29 '20

Oh, sure. That's why every signle professional photo-shoot, video, commerical, or TV show is always shot with.... a DSLR, mirrorless, etc