The iPhone 4 already offered standout image quality for a mobile phone, helping to further the general trend of using a phone camera rather than a dedicated camera. And with ever-better video, phone cameras will increasingly will be able to supplant videocameras, too.
Apple clearly hopes to stay ahead of the curve with the iPhone 4S: one of its selling points is a new 8-megapixel camera sensor that can record high-definition video at full 1080p resolution. It seems likely that it will outshoot most of its direct competition in the mobile phone market, but it's natural to wonder how well it stacks up against a high-end camera, too.
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Happily, Robino Films has something of an answer. The company posted a video comparing 1080p video from an iPhone 4S with that from Canon's $2,400 EOS 5D Mark II, the current SLR to beat when it comes to shooting video.
The two cameras shoot the same scenes, mounted side by side on a camera rig. Exposure was adjusted to be the same, and the video was shot at 30 frames per second.
Watch the video to see what you think about shadow and highlight detail and other matters. The field of view is a bit different, but it's still good enough for comparison purposes. You can pause it to look at individual frames in ... [Read more]
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