iPhone 18 Pro adds a variable aperture on the 48 megapixel main camera plus pro controls in the camera app. Real depth of field control on a phone. Does that change how you shoot B-Roll?

23:40there not for that. But I went into St. Peter's Basilica and there were like seven people right in a row all doing a little stand-up with a one or two person crew with just, again, it was at the time, a phone and a one by one and a wireless microphone. So all of those people just now got a tool that puts them in a completely different space than they were before. And that's the cool

24:06thing to me next question paul faul who's snows in texas has iphone 18 pro adds a variable aperture on the 48 megapixel main camera plus pro controls in the camera app real depth of field control on a phone does that change how you shoot b-roll alex knight absolutely this is a huge huge deal if you like taking photos on your phone um you know there's this there's been this trend where everyone

24:35wants you know that typical blurry bokeh background but I'm actually against it in there's so many situations where I would have loved to have control where I want to be able to dictate how much depth of field I have and this is really going to change that because contrary to popular belief no I do not want a super blurry background for every damn photo that I take sometimes I want the background

25:04in focus. Okay. Okay. I'm done. Jason. Yeah, I think it'll make a huge difference. And I'm, as a vision pro owner, I can say like, you know, I'm not afraid of spending the money, but I think I might sit out the duo purely because I'm a photographer first. Courtney. And one of the thing, you know, you've had computational photography for years where it

25:32and, you know, fake the bokeh. So they've been able to do that for several years now on most phones, including the Apple's. But one thing this gives you with a real multi-leaf shutter is when you're shooting at night, you know, specular reflections and specular highlights can have those little star-like effects. And it's going to change the shape of all the lens flares that you see when you're shooting at night.

25:59So that's going to be an interesting new addition photographically. Other than that, that stuff is very hard. You know, the inner lens reflections can be faked. You know, just ask JJ Abrams. But, you know, it's harder to do on a phone realistically, you know, without a lot of creative panache. and they're definitely leaning in hard to the aspirational aspects of what could be done with

26:29the camera. I mean, you saw it in the way that the show opened. They had all of those different scenes where there's a huge dynamic range shift within the same frame with the, you know, a really, really dimly lit face and then fire in the background. They had an explosion in the background. there were a lot of shots where they're leaning into, okay, if you put an appropriate amount of

26:55kit around it, like you can get some really cool images off the device. And in reality, are major, major productions going to do that? No. But they're trying to lean into that creator space and say, okay, but look at what's possible with this if you put the amount of work into it. And that's, for me, always exciting when you think about somebody who's just getting started.

27:16Somebody that has this phone as a hand-me-down in a year or two and is just starting to make something or just starting to understand the grammar of video and editing and everything like that. they've got a pretty cool tool that as a young person they have the time piece they have an abundance of time that as you get into a higher level production people are putting dollars for

27:40real tools because the dollars for those tools is less than all the extra time that they would have had to put into it um i think the other thing the other thing that i see with the with the camera on the 18 Pro is actually the digital negative where they're trying to encode the fact that this was the raw original unaltered image into the photo at capture so that when