I've been taking cinematic videos with the telephoto lens on my iPhone 13, and I'll show you how to do it today! First, let me explain the settings. The lens is a 3X telephoto lens with a focal length of 77mm Focusing is basically using AF lock, not AF tracking. The reason I used AF lock is because I tend to use manual focus to lock the focus when shooting city videos. So I thought I'd shoot under the same conditions The f-number is fixed at 2, so I think it's pretty bokeh. Hand-held shot. Taken in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The first part of the video is brighter and the second part is darker because it was taken in the evening and night in Shibuya. So, I hope you can see the video in the dark. I uploaded this video without editing because the AF lock didn't work properly, and the focus often shifted, so I wanted you to see that. Of course, I think it's possible to adjust the focus to be more stable later with the iPhone 13's editing features. I think the focus position is quite off because I uploaded this image without editing. The only editing I did was to make the cut before and after and to make the colors a little more cinematic. so I hope you enjoy it. What do you think? When I shot the first post scene, I felt that I could make it very cinematic! I thought. After that, as I took more and more videos, I gradually started to think that something was wrong. And the reason for this is that the focus of the video is not stable. There were often scenes where the focus would shift, even though I was shooting with AF lock For example, here's some footage from the scramble crossing At first, the back of the video is in focus, but as people pass by in the foreground, the focus shifts more and more. The scene with the kebab store and the uniforms of the school of Aoyama Gakuin. Again, if there is a person in the foreground, it will be out of focus. Even in the scene where the car comes out of the tunnel, the focus sometimes shifts even though there is nothing passing in the foreground I thought that maybe with the current cinematic mode of the iPhone 13, it might be difficult to fix the focus in one place and shoot! I thought maybe I'm wrong about the meaning of AF lock, so I tried the same AF lock in portrait mode of the photo! In the portrait mode of the photo, even if something passes in the foreground, it doesn't go out of focus. Maybe it's just a bug. So I'm hoping it will be fixed in a future software update. I was wondering when I can use the cinematic mode of the iPhone 13, probably when I have a certain subject in mind. For example, children on a family vacation, or food. I thought the cinematic mode would be useful when I had a certain subject in mind and wanted to shoot it. I think that the cinematic mode can't be used when focusing on a single point in a place like this where a lot of people are coming and going. I think it is possible to create a stable video by using the editing function of the iPhone 13 and adjusting the focus position afterwards. Also, the bokeh on the iPhone 13 was a little unnatural compared to the bokeh on the SLR camera(ex.sony A7SIII). The background of the subject is bokeh, but the edges of the in-focus area in the foreground are also sometimes bokeh. I've been using the portrait function for a while now, but I'm hoping it will be fixed soon. Something like that. If you are wondering about the cinematic mode of iPhone13, please refer to this page.
