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iPhone Videography

Caver Keith

Caver Keith

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Has anyone used an iPhone for filming their underground adventures?
I need to upgrade both my phone and the camera I use for making my caving videos, a Lumix GX7, and the question I'm asking myself is, could an upgraded phone double as my caving camera?

The Lumix has always given me very good results.
  • The image quality is excellent, always crisp and sharp,
  • It deals extremely well with well-lit and less well-lit areas within a frame and
  • the black areas are properly black with no sign of noise.
  • I've always been delighted with the results.
Recently I've made a couple of videos using my iPhone 11 Pro and
  • The image quality is good. Close-ups are brilliant, but distant shots tend to be a little grainy.
  • It handles the exposure well between the well-lit and the less well-lit areas within a frame (comparable with the Lumix) and
  • the black areas stay properly black with very little sign of noise.
  • In short it's very good, but not as good as my trusty old Lumix.
If anyone has taken video with an iPhone 14 Pro, I would be very interested their opinion of the footage they took with it and in seeing the results for myself.

Here's some video I took recently in the large chamber in Ogof Foel Fawr using my iPhone 11 Pro and just helmet lamps for illumination. I need to know if a later model of iPhone would give better results. Can anyone help, please?

 
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