Does the iPhone 18 Pro's improved camera technology change how you approach news gathering and field journalism?
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Higher quality and control in phones changes journalism because iPhones don't draw attention like big rigs, allowing journalists to capture newsworthy events covertly while still producing professional-quality output with proper kit.
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29:07in the way that a big camera rig does. You don't have to be a journalist with a big budget and a media corporation behind you to afford an iPhone. A lot of people afford an iPhone. Apple's quite good at selling them, as a matter of fact. So when you pull that out into a situation at a live event where you're trying to, or at some sort of newsworthy event
29:32that you're trying to capture from, you're not getting the eyeballs of security. You're not getting the eyeballs of authority. You're able to be incognito. But when you go to the kind of shots that Apple put out in the beginning of their event video, when you are doing an interview and the iPhone is still your only camera, you have the infrastructure to build enough kit around it so that when the person comes in,
30:02they feel like it's been taken seriously and it's not amateur hour. So in a lot of ways the advancements in the more advancements that could put into a camera that's in the level of a phone that you can put in your pocket allows the journalist or whoever is capturing footage to be more of a chameleon and stand out as much or as little as they'd like and that's a pretty powerful
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