Can film mode only be used for photography?

If I choose the best evaluation of iPhone 13 series, Ai Faner's evaluation video comes first. The reason for winning the first place is also simple: the little brother in the short film is really eye-catching.

As an important upgrade of iPhone 13 series, the movie special effects mode can be described as "the first show of C" at Apple's press conference, which was not only demonstrated at the press conference, but also shown in the official hands-on video after the press conference.

In movies, we often see directors use "focus shift" to guide the audience to pay attention to the key points of the film. For example, in A Chinese Odyssey, after Xia Zi blinked, the focus of the camera shifted to the face of the Supreme Treasure.

The movie special effects mode of iPhone 13/ 13 Pro series is based on algorithm. Through the cooperation of A 15 chip and photosensitive element, we can shoot an automatic and smooth focus switching effect similar to a movie after opening the movie effect mode, without any professional skills, because all changes are automatically completed.

Let's go back to the evaluation video of Ai Faner. The clerk at TALLLK Coffee didn't know where the iPhone 13 was lost, so she confirmed it with her eyes. The focus of the video is constantly changing with the turn of their heads, from the little brother in white in the foreground to the little brother in black in the background.

Of course, as an ordinary mobile phone user, the movie effect mode is just a "stunning at a glance" function, which will not be used too many times in daily life. In contrast, higher refresh rate, longer battery life and even brand-new color matching are more attractive.

Camera? Scanning the code is enough-that's what I thought before I started using iPhone 13 Pro.

"Isn't it that two people in the video have been looking back? You may ask this question after watching the press conference and some video comments, but as long as you carefully watch the video clips shot by Ai Faner, you will find that this is not just "scaling between two people".

The clerk brought a cup of coffee to the little brother who lost his mobile phone, but the little brother who didn't know where he lost his mobile phone had doubts about coffee. We focused on "Little Brother". When I was changing my coffee cup, I felt my little brother's sight.

We can see that the movie special effects mode can not only capture the characters, but also capture the subject entering the screen, which will be captured by the iPhone, predict the focus, and automatically focus on the new subject when appropriate. You don't have to worry about how to zoom, after all, the professional photography class, iPhone has already done it for you.

Apple official website said so.

Since it is not limited to characters, there are many ways to play the movie special effects mode.

However, before unlocking the new gameplay, you must be prepared. First of all, only the iPhone 13/ 13Pro series phones released this year support movie special effects mode. I wonder if Apple will delegate this function to other old models in the future. If your new mobile phone has just arrived, turn on the camera and select "movie special effects mode" to complete the preparation for unlocking new skills.

Next, let's talk about how to play the movie special effects mode if Evan's second bomb of Hard Candy Plan and the hard candy 30W of X 002 Plan don't shoot people.

Simply put, the movie special effects mode automatically helps you change the focus in the video, so that we can change the focus by pointing the camera of the mobile phone at different items, so that everyone can gradually focus on what you want to show.

In this demo video, the focus of the lens has shifted from the original charging head of iPad to the fast charging head of hard candy. In practice, you can also aim the camera at the distant scenery first, which can be a statue at the bridge head or a cup of milk tea in your hand.

We often see that when two people appear in TV series, the focus of the video will change constantly because of the different speakers. Generally speaking, people standing at the far end of the screen who are suddenly focused will become the key to changing the course of the story. If you want to highlight an item, you might as well put it farther away and blur the foreground item that was originally focused through the movie special effects mode, thus showing the real big boss.

The same two charging heads, because the focus moved to the hard candy fast charging head on the back, the original charging head in the foreground gradually blurred. In practical application, the foreground can also be a small flower in the corner, waiting for the cat in the background to come out slowly.

When testing the film special effects mode, we found that even if only one object is shot, it will have a completely different background blur effect because of different distances, so you can turn on the film special effects mode and try to make the lens close to the object, making its background more and more blurred and the subject more and more prominent.

For example, in this schematic diagram, the railing in the background is gradually blurred, and the charging head is becoming clearer and clearer. If you see a unique landscape sculpture in the park, try it slowly.

When shooting multiple objects, there will be multiple simulated focuses in the scene frame of movie special effects mode, which will change at any time according to the algorithm. But if you click on one of them, the focus will only stay on that item, so no matter how the picture is adjusted, the most eye-catching one will always be that one.

This focus is very suitable for shooting ducklings in the lake in the park. Click on the one you want to take most. No matter how they swim, that's the point of your video.

Of course, the above demonstration and practical application examples are just a topic for discussion. If you have more interesting ways to play, please share them with us in the comments section.

After shooting, you can directly adjust the focus of the objects in the album and let iPhone recalculate the video-even if the movie is over, you can still achieve better performance by clicking and swiping.

This editing function is not limited to iPhone 13 series phones. We try to send the video of "all photo data" in movie mode to iPhone XR upgraded with iOS 15, and we can also adjust the focus in the editing of the album. But the iOS 14 system or older models can't edit even if they keep all the photo data.

In addition, in the test, we also found that computers equipped with macOS 12 (still under test) can also edit movie effects.

Although in the actual experience, the special effects mode of iPhone 13 series movies is not perfect, changing the focal length for a long time will pull the bellows, and the shooting light will be weak in the afternoon, and occasionally focusing on something as small as the hard candy filling head will also fail. However, after netizens' aversion to the movie special effects mode of 1080p and 30fps lowered their expectations, I was actually very happy to get started with the movie special effects mode: changing the focus can make the video have so many ways to play.

I believe that even if the gameplay is shared, the movie special effects mode is still just a function that can be put down after playing for two days. After all, seeing what you want to share, photographing it and sending it to the person you want to share is the most commonly used way to use mobile phone cameras. But we should know that the film special effects mode is not the first innovative attempt of mobile phone images.

Every day is the most important scene.

On the iPhone 7 Plus, Apple added a telephoto lens for the first time, supported 2 times optical zoom, and added a new portrait mode to the camera, which was all the rage; When we arrived at iPhone X, the brand-new original camera lens brought us a moving expression. The funny appearance not only makes users like it, but also causes many friends to imitate it.

IPhone's mobile phone expression.

Throughout the Android phone, innovative photography gameplay emerges one after another. From joint camera manufacturers to customized filters, to 100 times telescope and 60 times microscope, even multiple devices can be combined to achieve multi-camera recording effect with mobile phones.

Xiaomi 1 1 ultra multi-machine combined recording function.

But just as we are speculating about the future development of film special effects mode, fewer and fewer people use these innovative gameplay, so are these innovative gameplay about cameras a failure?

In the year when iPhone 7 Plus was released, as a layman who had never been exposed to professional photography, I first learned the concept of "background blur". Later, when I watch movies, I will look at the scene behind the characters intentionally or unintentionally: it turns out that the existence of fuzzy background has focused my attention on the characters; When I used the multi-machine recording function of Xiaomi 1 1Ultra, I felt the feeling of using two mobile phones as directors: shooting the original picture of the film with a multi-angle camera; Today, after 20 years of marveling at Xia Zi's affectionate wink, I can finally take similar photos with my mobile phone.

The existence of these image patterns is more important than the effect they can achieve.

1080p, the picture quality of 30fps is not worth mentioning for professional image workers, but photography is for recording and expression after all. So I still expect manufacturers to bring more innovations to the mobile phone imaging system. When we can use mobile phones to capture the action and capture the moment when the 100-meter flying man crosses the line, even if it is only 1080p, it is enough to broaden the horizons of non-professionals and feel the improvement brought by technology to mobile phone images.