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Here in Canada, where I live, the price tag for an iPhone 15 Pro is almost $1,500.

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It's $1,000 in the US, but still, that's a lot of number.

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Even if I had the money, are the Pro only updates that cash is going towards even for

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me? I like the non-Pro iPhone this year, so I'm going to try all the new stuff on the Pro

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model to see if I can justify its price. Because geez, for that number, it better be made out of titanium.

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Oh, it is.

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The glossy, heavy stainless steel frame of the 14 Pro has been replaced with a lightweight

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titanium one. It makes it smaller and lighter, the edges are rounded off and easier to hold.

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And because the bezels on the screen are thinner, the Pro is only 0.6mm wider than

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my personal no phones wider than 70mm policy.

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In fact, when I first unboxed this 15 Pro, I thought it felt a lot more toy-like than

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the rather serious models that preceded it.

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It is the closest one is going to get to a mini iPhone these days.

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But all of these changes actually are best felt on the Pro Max model.

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I usually hate big phones. After using this one for over a week, it's almost tolerable.

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That is, until I have to sit or bend down. I really like the natural titanium color, and I like the blue less so.

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Fun story, Jake Bell ordered one of these and really wanted a white one.

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Every color was sold out except blue. Oh yeah, the ringer switch is also gone, replaced by the new action button.

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This allows you to choose from a list of fun functions or customized shortcuts, and toggle

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that choice on and off by long pressing. I do wish you could double or triple click for additional functions, but this does add

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a nice bit of flexibility and has a cool settings page with awesome animations.

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Myself, I'll be using it as a ring silence button.

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Like the regular 15, the Pro gets the very useful USB Type-C port.

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It supports up to 10 gigabits per second transfer speeds,

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and that helps make the iPhone Pro more pro than it has ever been,

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because transferring those humongous ProRes video recordings is no longer a pain.

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But it's even better, because you don't need to transfer anymore.

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The iPhone 15 Pro supports external recording onto SSDs,

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which means that you don't need to opt for a spendy storage upgrade just to record 4K.

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It even enables up to 60 frames per second at that resolution.

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Furthermore, Apple added a log video profile option as well.

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Log video is important in professional video circles because it retains the most

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amount of dynamic range from the darkest and brightest parts of each frame.

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That means that an editor can manipulate the look of the footage to their liking in post.

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Up until now, the phone would apply its own look, and if it were wrong, tough.

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But Apple's gone a little too far in the other direction.

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Right now, only those with a developer account have access to Apple's LUTs.

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That's the lookup table, which helps editing software translate the flat image

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into a more viewable starting point. That's a major hurdle to go through just to take advantage of log footage.

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You either have to create your own LUT, or buy someone else's, or wait until Apple's gets added into the editing software of choice.

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But it certainly works, preserving more detail than if you were to just shoot an HDR.

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One of my favorite TV shows at the moment is How To with John Wilson.

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It's a show that captures the weird visuals that New York can throw,

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and then uses them to great effect to tell a story.

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In an interview in Variety, John revealed that a fifth of Season 2 was shot on the iPhone.

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Dude, this is for you. Because everyone has an iPhone, you can film covertly while still getting the best quality

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I don't know how to pronounce covertly anymore. Covertly. Covertly.

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Though an SSD dangling off the phone might draw some attention,

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just say it's a battery pack. I still know that despite Apple's marketing push,

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the iPhone will never replace the professional cameras we and John use at work.

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But the iPhone is absolutely the phone to have for video.

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For me personally though, I think when it comes to these features, I'd rather save the money and leave this in the camera den at work.

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Back to the USB-C port for a moment. Unlike the transition to lightning,

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I don't think that this transition is going to be as big of a deal because you probably already have a USB-C cable at home.

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Well, I discovered this week that Apple's new fine woven case has a very small plug hole,

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so not all cables will fit, especially the ones that support USB 3 speeds.

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The camera hardware hasn't changed much on the 15 Pro from the previous 14 Pro.

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I mean, I think the photos look different. Though these night photos Jake Bell took on his blue phone in Toronto do look quite good.

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The only new camera is found on the Pro Max, which gets a brand new 5x telephoto lens.

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It's really nice to be able to capture detailed images from farther away.

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It's certainly better than trying to get 5x zoom from the smaller Pro's 3x camera.

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Is it worth not only the Pro price tag, but an extra $200 for the Max?

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My big gripe with the Pro iPhone's cameras is all the settings and the app.

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Reviewing an iPhone camera used to be easy, but now there are five different quality options for the main camera alone.

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And you can only toggle between four of them from within the app

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if you have Pro Raw and Control toggled on.

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And all the toggles for the camera app are still contained in the iPhone's settings app.

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Look, when the iPhone was a cute little simple cell phone, it made sense to keep extra settings in the settings app,

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but this is insane. The record video menu lets you select your default video quality in dynamic range,

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among other things, but the setting for Pro Res recording in dynamic range encoding is in the formats menu.

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It's great that I can shoot log footage. It's not great that I have to leave the camera app to toggle it on and off,

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while lacking the ability to set my white balance, a constant shutter speed, and or ISO.

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Pro Res was introduced two years ago. Are we going to have to wait another two years before the iPhone will give us those controls?

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If Apple is going to charge Pro pricing, they need to at least redesign the camera app for the Pro models.

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Apple made a big deal about the new A17 Pro chip.

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It is faster, especially in my Lightroom test. The biggest improvements Apple advertised though were with the GPU,

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which Apple says is now Pro Class. K, whatever.

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But what it actually supports is hardware accelerated ray tracing and metal FX upscaling,

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the type of features found on real graphics cards. I don't play mobile games ever, I even gave up on Townscape-er.

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But the coolest games that Apple announced will be supporting this technology,

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including Rainbow Six Division, Assassin's Creed, and a pair of Resident's Evils.

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Or is it Resident's Evil? R, console tier, AAA games, that won't be out for a while though.

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I did, however, miraculously get my hands on Resident Evil Village.

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And it looks pretty good. There are a lot of graphics settings that one can adjust, but no ray tracing.

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My colleagues at the Orange Channel are planning on doing a deep dive on this, so you should check that out, but only after you're done watching this video.

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Genshin Impact, however, does support metal FX,

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and Labs found that it does improve graphics fidelity immensely, while providing more stable frame times with slightly less GPU utilization.

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What I really want is City Skylines. But I really won't because of the App Store tax.

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So, this thing doesn't win me over, does it?

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And I don't think the new features are for most people, unless you're John Wilson, things like the ProMotion screen,

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extra optical zoom, and fancy processor are actually luxuries.

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If I had to buy a phone right now, because I desperately needed to,

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I think I'd still go with a regular 15, unless I could get a 13 mini on clearance.

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I should really get a 13 mini on clearance. Thanks for making this Mac Address flat.

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Like and subscribe, and tell me in the comments below whether you'd go with a Pro model or a regular 15.

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And I'm not filming a video on the iPhone 15 Pro,

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because I already did that with the iPhone 13 Pro when ProRes came out.

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