“For me the great hope is now that 8mm video recorders are coming out, people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to be making them. And that one day a little fat girl in Ohio is going be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father’s camcorder. For once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed and it will really become an art form.” – Francis Ford Coppola
Over the last 5 years, the technology around capturing motion pictures has advanced to a point where one can easily access quality equipment on a relatively small budget. Case in point, the new Apple iPhones released this morning are drool-worthy for even the most reluctant of apple fan-boys, myself included.
The most significant features included were the ones focused on amateur photography. 1080p HD at 60 fps, 240-fps slo-mo it can compete with most GoPros purely from a capture perspective, but very few will want to give it a ride. Their focus pixels concept sounds like magic but i’m assuming it’s just improved phase detection or contrast detection. For photography alone there are some nice features as well, time-lapse, better HDR, burst mode for selfie sessions, and finally some exposure controls that have been missing since the beginning.
I still have yet to see Coppola’s fat girl dream come true, but if Apple keeps their chorus and coda of upping their game every 2 years, more and more of the older devices will be flooding the market. While i’m sure plenty of them end up in a landfill, I hope one end’s up in a fat girl from Ohio’s hands.