Video ID: V2LFBBxufDw
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LFBBxufDw
Added At: 13-06-25 21:17:59
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Sentiment: Neutral
Categories: Tech
Tags: iPhone 16 Pro, camera, photographic styles, Ridge wallet, video review
Summary
The video review discusses the iPhone 16 Pro, highlighting its camera features and photographic styles. The reviewer shares their experience with the device, noting that while it can capture high-quality photos, some features may not be as useful as others. The video also touches on the Ridge wallet, a sponsor of the channel.
Transcript
from software freezing to the camera control button causing loads of frustration why is that doing to not being jazzed about the results I was getting oh man I've been riding The Struggle Bus with the iPhone 16 Pro and after taking well over a thousand photos and videos with this device on a road trip across New York State I've learned that this year you have to be the change and it all starts with editing your photos I'm Becca welcome back to my channel where we take Tech outside let's get into it the iPhone 16 Pro can capture f photos from the main sensor straight out the cam hell they're even a little bit more contrasty but maybe not as saturated as photos from the pixel 9 Pro's main sensor but With a Little Help from photographic Styles you can create something far more compelling and to save you the time don't be like me and hold on to your ideas about what photographic Styles was when it first launched with the iPhone 13 back then there was limited customization and the UI wasn't exactly inviting but now there's this touchpad so the why access is tonal range which is the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of your image or the contrast then the XA represents the color or saturation which is the intensity of the colors in your photos with this touchpad photographic Styles is a customizable tool but that being said I'm conflicted about how much apple is relying on them to create an experience that feels new on one hand it's what I like to call the Fuji filmification of this camera so you have built-in looks that you can slightly customize to make them all your own to create something that isn't just a boring phone photo but on the other hand I worry about how much apple is relying on this feature to make the entire camera system feel new it's a play out of Google's book let's give folks a small trick or something they can latch on to so they keep talking about this system and as a lover of innovation just makes me sad we've gotten so used to large spec bumps that give us Tech nerds enough reason to buy the new thing every year but this year photographic Styles is definitely not enough reason to buy this new thing and nor is that camera control button all of this I could do easy like really easy if I just touch the screen it is very safe to say that most folks who pick up this device are not going to take the time to learn camera control and therefore they're just not going to use it so for example if you're using it to scroll through settings you're going to constantly scroll and overc scroll and UND scroll and then be scrolling back and forth ever so slightly to get to the exact thing you want and Truth y it got to the point where I just feared accidentally starting to scroll because it was going to be so hard to get back to where I needed to be and then there's the double push action to get to more settings and that like requires sort of a full push but not really a full push and it's all just really finicky and in the Apple ecosystem where everything is meant to be easy you know setting up your device is easy pairing your airpods is easy airdrop for the most part is easy this button just doesn't fit it is simply not easy easy and I think that Apple tried to do too much with it too quickly because I know I want to use it as a way to open the camera and take a photo but I fear using it because I don't have great control over everything else it can do and much like photographic Styles it's just one of those things where you have to do the work to get this feature to work for you and even after 3 weeks of trying to get this button to work for me I simply have not found it useful I use it to open the camera a lot sure once in a while I take a photo with it I have to like ly be like oh let me use the camera control button but I would say I'm still using the volume rockers more to take photos than this button which as a lover of technology and especially a lover of buttons breaks my little nerdy heart pour one out for the camera control button now I know I started this video with loads of negatives but there is a positive that I think we can all agree on this year the iPhone 16 Pro lineup has the same camera system in both the 6.9 in Pro Max and the 6 3-in Pro meaning that you don't have to have a massive phone with a larger price tag to have Apple's latest and greatest camera system oh my God it's a huge win for me personally and for small Pockets everywhere much like the ridge wallet thank you Ridge for being this Channel's first ever sponsor and for sponsoring this video before I started using a ridge wallet I thought okay a metal wallet why but now that I have one I get it yes it is metal and that's cool but more importantly it's the smallest wallet I've ever owned and because of that I can put in my front pocket and I also don't have to take it out every time I sit down somewhere a huge win for me personally but for small Pockets everywhere you can fit up to 12 cards in a ridge wallet it has RFID protections and all products from Ridge come with a lifetime warranty I'll put a link to the one that I've been using down below along with a code for 10% off your purchase thank you Ridge for supporting this video but more importantly thank you for thinking about small Pockets everywhere now if only phone manufacturers could get on that get on that wavelength so I've had this lifelong dream and I thought what better time to cross it off my list than the iPhone 16 review they blow the Bloon up with a fan of course they do I don't know how I thought that they did it before but duh you see I already knew that the video quality from this device was going to be incredible so why not pick something really beautiful and colorful to show it off with but what I didn't know is that being in a hot air balloon is both the most calming and exhilarating experiences you can have so we're just going to brush against these trees up here the bottom of the basket the slowest down you see when you're in a hot air balloon you're completely reliant on the Wind being nice to you I guess and you use anything you can to slow you down if the wind picks up which is why we went through the tree and then through rope down to some folks to help slow us down and stop us if you ever have the opportunity to take a hot air balloon ride do it it was an incredible experience and the iPhone 16 Pro was a great companion to document it with I really love using this device to get clean easy to work with footage and having the ability to shoot log footage right at your fingertips is a cherry on top so long as you feel like doing some post processing again one of those things that you have to do but what's new this year is that 4K 120 so I decided to take it somewhere where they move a little bit quicker than I normally [Music] do all right shout out to my cousin who is far more badass than I am I spent 5 hours at heras getting absolutely coated in dust but I also shot 444 gigs of 4K 120 log footage all on a single battery cycle with the iPhone 16 Pro I did notice that the device got a little toasty around back but it was never too hot to hold and the footage is really smooth do I ever need 120 frames per second footage no but do I want it yeah why not and in perfect light both log footage and non-log footage it's just so crisp and true to life though I do wish Apple can improve low light performance when shooting video oh she pedaling she pedaling I find the image can get real grainy real fast when both shooting log or not but this is sort of the theme with this camera during the day the camera is perfectly capable and you will feel so comfortable taking it on a once in a-lifetime adventure like a hot air balloon ride but at night it still has a lot of pitfalls that it has had for years most notably in the ultra wide camera who turn the lights off although the ultrawide sensor was the only real spec bump that came to the back camera array it's a 48 megap sensor up from a 12 megap on the 15 Pro I don't see a huge Improvement to image quality with it either in photo or video and I find it to be very slow leading to blurry images and here's a picture of my cat that I took with the main lens but I was close enough to her that it switched into macro mode and therefore started using the wide angle lens and you can see that instantly the photo is blurry and grainier petapixel wrote a great article about the sensor and how more megapixels doesn't always mean a better image like kind of about the trade-offs but the tldr is that the ultrawide sensor in the 16 Pro is the same size as the ultra wide sensor on the 15 Pro though it has many more smaller pixels which means that in optimal lighting those small pixels will gather more detail but in low light they will start to generate a great deal of noise the most frustrating problem with this lens though is that it is still so dark and at night when you switch from the main lens to the ultra wide it really feels like someone just turned off the lights and the disappointments in low light shooting extended the telephoto lens as well there's still the problem of Apple cropping the main sensor in order to gather more light instead of using the telephoto lens in low light which results in a grainy image that is so clearly just a cropped shot I just wish I could override this Choice before I wrap up this review there's one last thing we need to do that I haven't done in a while it's time for a mic test and of course the first player is the wired Apple earbud I mean this is a tried and true great mic reliable beyond belief gold standard how does it hold up against the second gen airpod Pros a few years ago I was like yeah Bluetooth is definitely going to catch up to those wired headphones eventually and it still hasn't happened and you know what I'm not sure it's going to happen anytime soon either but how does it compare to the mics in the iPhone 16 Pro folks have been raving about the new mics in here and yeah I think you can hear it they're pretty good and you might say well you're holding it really close to your face so okay we'll move it a little bit further away how does it sound now and wait let's do the same with the wired ones okay here are the wired ones that far away how does it sound check one two check check some pretty damn good mics in here and it feels like they're having that M1 moment like I remember when the MacBook Pros came out with the M1 chip they had new speakers and mics that sounded I know worlds better than what came before them the real news with these mics though is that there are built-in features within the camera app that reduce noise so let's go back to the H air balloon Festival So within the photos app you can now edit the audio from video to take out unwanted background noise there's a few modes but in frame is by far the most impressive a rainstorm that just popped up right by us pilot rich though is I trust him I trust him I believe that he knows what's best last year we saw Google bring a similar feature to this to the pixel lineup so it's great to see apple following suit with something that's really helpful and with that that's everything big I want to talk about with the iPhone 16 Pro like I said at the beginning this year is all about you it's about you taking the device and making it your own it kind of reminds me of Android in a way where you really got to like get in and customize your device to your needs and your likings it's going to be interesting to see if Apple folks are uh into that sort of thing you could say anyway I'm Becca I appreciate you so much um if you're not subscribed it mean the world to me and I'll see you in the next one