iPhone Videography

[Caver Keith]

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?

 

[JoshW]

A few years ago, the Oreo dream was filmed entirely on my iPhone SE (with a cheap gimbal)

Imagine newer phones could do a muuuuch better job

 

[royfellows]

Josh, that is one seriously impressive video!

 

[Caver Keith]

A few years ago, the Oreo dream was filmed entirely on my iPhone SE (with a cheap gimbal)

Imagine newer phones could do a muuuuch better job

Thanks Josh. I remember seeing your film at Hidden Earth, As Roy says, very impressive!

 

[JoshW]

Josh, that is one seriously impressive video!

Thanks Roy! Just a little project to keep me on the straight and narrow