iPhone 14 Pro vs. $20k in “PROFESSIONAL” Cameras
Kind of a shame he never talks about the lenses on these cameras. The sony has a 12-24mm f2.8 which is a good lens but you could go much, much further with a prime lens (though ofc, you lose versatility).<p>In reality, he never really pushed any of the cameras... he kind of just took very regular pictures which for most people is enough but that&#x27;s definitely not the usage you&#x27;d give to these cameras.<p>I think a much more fair comparison is getting a sony a6000 for what, 200, 300 bucks? couple it with one of the very good new prime (or zoom) APC lenses from sony or sigma (for example the sigma 18-55 f2.8, which goes for about 400 dollars) and you have a much better camera than what the iphone can give you for a lot more situations. The sigma lens is wide enough and fast enough to give you incomparable night photography against the iphone. It&#x27;ll offer much better portraits as well at that 55mm f2.8. Yes, the iphone is more compact and offers a million other fuctions; but then... what&#x27;s really the point of these comparisons?<p>I thought this video was kind of dumb and pointless? 48 megapixels is nice but that&#x27;s really not what makes these professional cameras what they are. Could you capture a cheetah running at 120km&#x2F;h from hundreds of meters away with the iphone? No, but that&#x27;s kind of the reason why you&#x27;d get one of these expensive cameras (you&#x27;d also need a super expensive zoom lens). When he goes to studio photography, would you really use that f2.8 24mm to take pictures? In a studio? Absolutely not, you&#x27;d go with a prime portrait lens or a prime wide lens with f1.4 or f1.8 apertures which would give you insane bookeh that&#x27;s simply impossible to get on the iphone.<p>So I guess my point is just that... I kind of feel like this video is simply content for the sake of content; it&#x27;s very clickbaity and portraits the iphone as being &quot;comparable&quot; to these cameras and it is but just in the sense that you can easily dumb-down these machines to be at the level of the iphone. Again, I think a much more realistic comparison is getting a cheap a6000 plus the sigma 18-55 f2.8 and compare them in all kinds of scenarios because then you have a set up that&#x27;s sort of similar in price (~800) to the iphone but you would really get to see how much good optics affect photography. Anyway, I guess some people just want to make money and entertain.