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by _factor 968 days ago
This could have been accomplished with an iPhone 8 years ago. For a keynote that 99.9% of the population will watch on YouTube, what is this trying to prove? It's an interesting demonstration, that's about it.
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It's amazing how quickly people get acclimated to what are basically miraculous technological advancements.

So much of what people have been doing matter of factly on iphones daily for years was just pure science fiction when I was a kid.

An iPhone 8 years ago (iPhone 6S released Sep 2015):

- Is limited to a 12MP sensor (15 Pro has 48MP on the main sensor)

- Can only shoot 4K SDR at 30fps

- Cannot shoot ProRes LOG mode

You could absolutely get a great video with an iPhone 6S. Soderbergh shot all of Unsane with an iPhone 7 and FiLMiC Pro. But comparing the video quality from Unsane to this clearly shows how far the iPhone has come.

It's an interesting demonstration. That's all it ever needed to be.

No it couldn't be accomplished with anything other than iPhone 15 Pro.

It is the only one to support ProRes with the Log profile.

Without it it's not possible to do decent video color grading.

wouldn't get the low light and dynamic range, if you've ever used an iphone to take pics 8 years ago
Consider that all it was trying to prove was that it was an interesting demonstration.