Fancy phone cameras.
I am an iPhone guy. And I’ve been an iPhone guy basically since they started making iPhones. It’s been fascinating to see the camera evolve from rudimentary (low-res stills and no video) on the first iPhone to generally amazing (comparable to many “real” cameras) on modern iPhones. My current phone is a couple of years old — I am an iPhone guy, but I am not a gotta-get-a-new-iPhone-every-year guy. But I am going to have to get a new one pretty soon, because apparently the camera on the current “pro” iPhone is legitimately pro. I mean, you can shoot “log” video on an iPhone 15 Pro and record it to an external USB-C drive! Stu Maschwitz has an excellent blog post about how he uses professional post-production tools to color correct shot-on-iPhone video. Be sure to check out the post’s embedded video to see some examples of how good iPhone video can look these days. Speaking of professional post-production... Here’s a video about the visual effects of (the most excellent) ...