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More info and full 720p iPhone 4 version here:
takezer0.com/iphone-4-as-film-tool/

Note: I was mainly focusing on the iPhone video here and didn't have intentions of making this a comparison video so some of the 7D shots aren't properly exposed and some aren't even focused. But here it is regardless.

Music: The Moldy Peaches - Jorge Regula

Hilarious spoof of this video here: vimeo.com/13992345

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Fernando Cruz 1 year ago

WoW, the iphone 4 footage is VERY impressive!
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Thanks Bill Murray :)
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Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

No, no :P It's just because I was mainly focused on the iPhone, the 7D is really a lot better. But the iPhone ain't bad!
MATT DILLON FOGARTY 1 year ago

yeah, i mean i love apple but the iphone color is a bit white in brighter situations espeacially in high contrast areas such as shadows to bright sun light on objects like the painted doors. The 7D captures impressive thick color. Like Take Zero Productions said he/her/them wernt focused on the 7D as much. Great job!
iamkalaniprince 1 year ago

I agree, the iphone seems to blow out the highlights.. but more importantly is the lack of DOF and control over exposure. Still, it's pretty damn impressive and convenience wise, invaluable. If the damn thing could only make calls ; ) I'll keep my 3gs for now..

Great comparison and hypnotic song.. I found myself checking the mail right afterward humming in my head, "gotta go out,... and check the ma-il..."...

Love and Aloha, iamKP-
Matt Wells 1 year ago

Yeah - what I take from this is - iphone can do some damn great video considering that you can then immediately Tweet or Email that video after. But if you need to shoot something really professional with lots options still go with the 7D. Still... wish I had one of these in college instead of a pixelfest camcorder to shoot my student films.
SKProductions2010 10 months ago

The look of the 7D footage is mainly affected by your skills, whereas the iPhone footage is not... Everyone who doesn't know anything about shooting video with a DSLR can just destroy the 7D footage!
Rokkas 1 year ago

we now need some action footage to compare moving objects :)
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Haha, oh man, any un-stabilized movement that's faster than walking speed looks awful on the iPhone :P
Rokkas 1 year ago

how about using glidecam with it? :)
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

I used a Steadicam Merlin. I'm sortof biased against Glidecam. I'm saving up for a Steadicam Flyer ;)
Rokkas 1 year ago

yeah, i film everything hand-held, sometimes using a tripod, also saving, but for the glidecam
flyer is too much for me :)
but i still havent decided if i need a glidecam...
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Oh, I can't even stand 7D footage hand-held. Needs stabilization! Heh, there's also the Steadicam Pilot, which is quite a bit cheaper. Steadicams take a LOT of practice to learn how to use, though
Rokkas 1 year ago

wow, these steadycams still look expensive with lcd screens and additional battery packs :)
i dont think i actually need that, but thanks, if i have enough money, ill maybe look for something you advised me to :)
Ickx 1 year ago

What song is this?
Rokkas 1 year ago

i believe its moldy peaches - jorge regula
Ickx 1 year ago

me likey
Raphael S. de Lavor 1 year ago

me too
Ray Roman 1 year ago

me three
The Film Artist 1 year ago

Amazing work, added to vimeo.com/groups/iphonehd & vimeo.com/channels/iphonehd :))
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Appreciate it!
Mohamed Saeed 1 year ago

just wow ! :)
Matt S 1 year ago

Killing me. I may have to get an iPhone. Being able to fit an HD video camera in your pocket (along w/ all of the other goodies) may be too much to pass up. However, "rolling shutter" is obscenely bad in the iPhone footage I've seen so far. Pretty much unwatchable. It looks like you had this mounted to a tripod. Sort of at odds with the idea of having an HD camera in your pocket : ) Thanks for the test footage.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Yeah, like I said in my blog entry (see the description), the rolling shutter is absolutely apparent. It's less noticeable in this video for multiple reasons: good stabilization (tripod, c-stand, and Steadicam) and also because I conformed the footage from 30 fps to 23.976 for very subtle, but perfect slow-motion. I also took care to only use slow, smooth movements. But it's a great start!
ALBMAB 1 year ago

I was just reading up on the "rolling Shutter", so would the palmtrees in the background (45sec) be consider the rolling shutter? I didnt notice, until after reading this comment.
Great Video and info!
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

It's hard to notice the rolling shutter in this video because I used slow, smooth movements and I also conformed the footage (made it slow-motion) which smoothed out the movement even more. If you shoot handheld with the iPhone, you'll REALLY notice the rolling shutter.
Paul Sellen 1 year ago

Nice!
The tree at the end looked better on the iPhone!
Cheers
Paul
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Heh, that shot may be a little misleading, the 7D was at a shallower f/stop and I don't think it was even in focus :p
paramon 1 year ago

that's it, I'm selling 5D and getting an iPhone 4
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Haha, I'll trade you for my iPhone :P
John Lewis 1 year ago

i WAS going to get a flip to carry around when i didn't have my 7D, but you know what? i'll just upgrade my iPhone when my plan expires. this is just awesome.
Kiera Faye 1 year ago

my thoughts exactly! saying "forget the 7D, I'll get an iPhone" (something I've heard in response to this video) is nonsense, but for pocket HD video capabilities, it's really very impressive.
Tiago Reis 1 year ago

Don't even put the iphone 4 on the same level of the 7d or any camera above...

the iphone 4 it's nice, but not a camera...
altought nice footage.
mario verastegui 1 year ago

I believe his main purpose was to show that the video quality of the iphone 4 was very very good by using 7d video next to it, not to show which one is better, but to show where a cellphone nowdays stand on video quality.

Im actually impressed and anxious to see how it´ll be like in the future...

hmm where is Dr. Emmett Brown when you need him...
Nathan Pierce 1 year ago

Iphone 4 seems to have some nice glass haha

Dslr is still gonna have the capability for some amazing glass tho.....
Elisey Stolyar 1 year ago

Fake
Vlad Gohn 1 year ago

bad color balance on iphone, no bokeh, no other lenses. Canon good
James Watt 1 year ago

wait, what? you mean you cant make a video in 2010 unless you have some obnoxious bokeh filling the screen?
Jean-Baptiste Lefournier 1 year ago

ground-breaking ! :)
iKapture 1 year ago

NEXT...iPhone 4 takes on RED. I wonder what will Jim say now?
Marc Siegert 1 year ago

hmmmmm....:)
Matt Schwarz 1 year ago

Kind of amazing, I can't believe I'm just carrying around such a great camera in my pocket now!
Thomas Valdez 1 year ago

What lens did you have on the 7D?
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Canon 16-35, zoomed to 35, aperture at 5.6, with a Fader ND.
Armen Mailyan 1 year ago

very nice
Mark Spencer 1 year ago

Music credit?
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

The Moldy Peaches - Jorge Regula :)
Josef Hrehorow 1 year ago

Great...just mindblowing really.
James (Xander) Sutherland 1 year ago

HAHA! RED Scarlet still not out they just digging their own grave! This got American Independent written all over it. Perfect for web I'll say, at least all the crappy home made movies will "look" a bit better ;-) Now wait for it...Magic Bullet brings out a Iphone app that adds in-camera looks to video on the fly...BOING!
Kiera Faye 1 year ago

you know it's coming!
...and I know I'll buy it!
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Heh, I would actually want that!
Blissful Films 1 year ago

Iphone 4 video is very nice, However 7d is my babeeee.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Hehe, me too :P
thevigia 1 year ago

iphone very nice !
Moath 1 year ago

This is pretty cool, though i personally think its a bit misleading because they're both scaled down, i know you're not really comparing but would be nice to see them @ both high resolution,

anyways i own a 7d, do you think the iphone4 cam could be used as an a B camera?
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

You can download this in 720p (it's less compressed than in the Vimeo player).

And... no, this would absolutely not be good enough as a B cam :P
KAZ PR✪D. 1 year ago

thanks for sharing !
James Press 1 year ago

Informative post--thanks. Any idea how long you can film with your iPhone?
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

I actually filled mine up rather quickly (with only 2 days of shooting). But I had a about 5 GB of photos, lots of music, contacts, apps, etc. I am really regretting not getting the 32 GB version. A "clean" iPhone without much on it can store a LOT. 16 GB of 10mbps footage is about 26 hours worth of video.
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Kingofpunk 1 year ago

best small camera maybe, but absolutly the worst cellular phone
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

You sound very biased. The iPhone is a wonderful little portable computer that just so happens to include a phone app.
Christopher Clark Cowan 1 year ago

Wow!
√an Lu 1 year ago

F A K E . . .
Or may be i should sell my 5D#II and buy an i·phone...
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

I promise you this isn't fake. But it may be a little misleading because I was focusing on the iPhone and didn't even focus my 7D in some of the shots.
√an Lu 1 year ago

Oh, that explain the tree leaves unfocused!
Donal Khosrowi 1 year ago

But does it line-skip?!???
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Not sure, but probably. I notice aliasing.
Daniel Spagnoli 1 year ago

it's very misleading to post both videos at the same resolution. shrinking video down always makes things look better. Blowing the iphone video up to 1920x1080 is the only way for a true head to head comparison. or even doing a side by side 720p to 720p comparison is a bit more accurate. Even when you download the video at 720p, you are still showing 2 videos in one frame (so you are doing atleast a 50% resolution for iphone 25% resolution for 7d).
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

You're right, but I didn't actually intend to even post this. I'm sure someone else will do more accurate tests :)
Ryan Rakowski 1 year ago

I want to see some really darkish low light recording on the iphone before I make any assumptions about the phone.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

It's incredibly noisy in low light :P
Guiri Reyes 1 year ago

thats really interesting... of course iphone cant compete with the 7d cuz of the lens quality and all the other features, but is pretty impressive the iphone video quality!!! you can really do some stuff with that
Clint Milby 1 year ago

Your video is now HDSLRshooter.com
Quintessential Studios 1 year ago

Let's shoot something with my HTC EVO and compare!

--Eric
Founder of IFotIE.com
Erik Watts 1 year ago

You really want to see the difference, have the footage projected in a theater. I promise the iphone will look like a grainy mess and the canon will win. No big deal for shooting web video but I don't think it would hold up well in film fest situations. ;-)
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

I absolutely agree. Without stabilization, the iPhone looks terrible. It's also very blown out and noisy. I did my best in grading/CC to "repair" the image here slightly, but the raw footage is absolutely apparently worse than the 7D :)
Manfred Ruetten 1 year ago

great!!! this will be my new pocketstudio :-)
Carlos OLiveira 1 year ago

fake
Derio Ilari 1 year ago

Please , you cant compare a cellphone with a proffesional camera .
Pavel Yudov 1 year ago

WOW! love how 7d works! amazing!
brian 1 year ago

someone clearly dont knows how to use a canon 7d.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

I mainly had the 7D attached to my Steadicam to use as weight and to be able to mount the iPhone better. But I figured since it was there, I would just record with both. In doing so, I focused mainly on the iPhone video and didn't even focus some of the 7D shots. I tried to make this clear in the description/blog, but I guess some people missed the point.
Taylor Case 1 year ago

unbelievable...some of the shots I was looking at the iPhone thinking it was the 7D haha Now all it needs are full manual controls like the 7D haha
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Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Yeah, you're right. My intention was originally to only have it displayed on our website in the blog entry with a lot of context. Maybe I'll make another comparison that shows the "truth".
Jos Schoenmaker 1 year ago

The aliasing seems much worse in the 7D-shots.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Download the 720 mp4 file, it's worse on the iPhone, but not by much :)
kylezhu2009 1 year ago

i still think 7D is better than iphone4, but i will plan to buy iphone4
Benymypony 1 year ago

The iPhone 4 is good, impressive ! But the 7D is really better (image quality, sharpen, manual control, highligh changes, etc).
For a phone, it's really good, real potential !
Nice test.
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Marin Balaic 1 year ago

Look, no one in their right mind would consider iPhone4 being anything else but a toy versus 7D. I thing this is meant to show just that iPhone4 has a really cool camera since it's a phone.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm not sure what this guy is complaining about. It was a simple comparison. Of course the 7D is better. But the iPhone, for what it is, is pretty darn good.
James Watt 1 year ago

isnt it amazing just how much a lot of canon owners seem to really enjoy the smell of their own farts. obviously missing the point of this great video.
Paul Jay 1 year ago

iPhone 4 is pretty good, But you really have to compare full screen shots. Then you'll starting to see big differences.
When you scale any footage down to this size, it starting to look much better.
Stuart Page 1 year ago

sh*t that's scary!
Jona Lam 1 year ago

I have to say seem your not really adjusting stuff properly on the 7d. Would been more fair if you did had.
Take Zero Productions 1 year ago

Yep, I know. I tried to make that fact clear in the description and blog post.
Michael Nolan 1 year ago

I am very impressed!
I need both!
Team TopFlight 1 year ago

awesome comparison vid! iphone 4 definitely brought their game up! awesome!
Ian Welty 1 year ago

I think this is more to show how amazing the quality of a cell phone video function is now, and not a comparison video trying to tell others to go with one or the other. The fact that a cell phone can shoot something that's this crisp is revolutionary especially when compared to every other phone out there, especially my own. Regardless of the unnecessary complaints of the 7d defenders who are taking this video as an attack, i think this is a very amusing and great video because even though i myself know the 7d trumps a phone, a phone shooting something of this quality in the first place is incredible. Cheers!
David Moreen 1 year ago

Both of them had their moments. Over all I think the canon looked better, but damn the new iphone kills!