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A few people will create videos in a new genre with this...perhaps, but the vast majority of the billion or more phones being sold will be used to make cheesy rack focus tiktok memes. Personally, the trend towards short social media content is disturbing. Spend 5 days straight swiping through instagram reels or tiktok and then step back. You will be less patient, dull, and be addicted to instant gratification. Shits toxic.

I see it becoming an established style, especially on social media. And real films will have to mimic it to get the authentic feel of that when needed by the script. Sure will be interesting to play with and see how it develops but for now it is 99% a TikTok thing to raise the production values of short social media measured in seconds. I am impressed that Apple managed to put ProRes codec into a phone as well. What is stopping the camera companies now exactly with their hardware and lack of internal ProRes. Just outdated chips or what?

I just found my original BMPCC in a box after moving and I realized how much fun it was shooting with this camera, despite all its shortcomings. It are the limitations and the singular focus, stripping it to the core, that makes it such a pleasure to shoot with. I never used the newer cameras but they don’t seem “pocket” at all, and a bit of overkill to carry along.

You forgot to mention ProRes codec support for up to 4K 30P on the Pro model. Now Apple just need to disable sharpening and noise reduction.

It's important to distinguish rolling shutter in photo mode (assisted by DRAM), and in video mode (direct ADC IO) In photo mode, R3 has a electronic shutter flash sync speed of 1/180s at 14bit, indicating a sensor readout speed higher than that. (A1 e-flash sync is 1/200s and sensor readout 1/250s at 14bit). This aligns with the official claim that the rolling shutter is about 1/4 of 1DX III (1/60s at 14bit). In video mode, the full sensor has a readout speed of 1/50s at 12bit, this enables a 16:9 crop of 6K at 60fps.