Apple and Xiaomi have given much prominence to the new video features in their new phones, which has raised the doubt: does the community really film with their smartphones? Last week, I asked readers in Germany, France, Brazil, India and the USA this question. Let’s get to the results!
Video recording is one of the best examples of digital inclusion. I have exactly one video recorded from my childhood in the interior of Germany: my miniature version with approximately four years looking intrigued for a huge VHS camera. Nowadays, lenses and cameras are in every pocket, with a much higher quality than the old cassette tapes.
Thinking about it, I wondered if people actually use the feature. I suspected that the vast majority of recordings were made in apps like WhatsApp or Instagram for immediate sharing, but the results disagree very much with my initial theory…
Filming with your phone is more common than I thought
For starters, the first poll asked if you shoot with your mobile phone. The responses were surprisingly different in the various countries of the . While in France and the USA and India most readers said they do not shoot with their mobile phones. In Germany, there were also many votes in favor of “Yes, many times” and I also found a lot in the comments about the practicality of the mobile camera.
The answers varied a lot this week! / ©
We’ve had even some more exalted comments, plus others with intriguing views. One of them pointed out that the pattern of use of the resource may even have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic:
Benjamin – You’re thinking about the past… The pandemic and the various resulting restrictions led to a real boom in series or movies shot with the smartphone, because a large film crew was not feasible.
You record primarily with the native camera app
The camera app offers the best quality and it is in it that the new features released by the manufacturers are found. However, I imagined that many people would prefer to record with the video options integrated into WhatsApp and cia. They are faster to access and offer good enough image quality. The result shows, however, that I was completely wrong.
Native Camera App is the community/community preference ©
The answer “Using the mobile camera app” led the second question in all regions, with the absolute majority right. However, the French reader Jerome69Paris left a hint to in his comment:
For my part, I use the excellent application “OpenCamera” to record videos, because it brings a feature that my Xiaomi Mi Max 3 with the original video /photo application does not have, stabilization in 4k / 30fps mode. Strangely, the original app only stabilizes up to 1080p/60fps (although you can enable stabilization at 4k, it doesn’t work), while the smartphone clearly has the ability to stabilize perfectly at 4k/30fps thanks to OpenCamera. – Jerome69Paris of the French community
A German reader also complained that the “With a real camera” option was not listed. In this case, the second poll applied only to those who answered “yes” to the first question.
Do camera features are for manufacturers to “show off”?
Last but not least, I explained a hunch about the motivation behind Apple’s cinema mode and Xiaomi’s Cinemagic from the manufacturers’ point of view. Have they been thought simply to show what new processors and cameras are capable of? Your answers were quite clear.
Show of strength or not, who wins are consumers / ©
In all countries, readers tended to agree with my assumption. A few days after the poll, I wonder if this is something negative. If a manufacturer just wants to show off with a new video feature, but it’s interesting and impressive, then in the end there’s an added value to the audience. And at the end of the day that’s basically what we all want, isn’t it?
Thank you very much for all the answers to the respective surveys and, of course, for the numerous comments. So see you next time!
Original article
Apparently, Apple and Xiaomi have noticed a need in mobile phones that I personally still do not see, with video features highlighted in recent releases of companies. This begs the question: who uses the phone in footage, and if they do, do they actually use the native camera app for this? Let’s go to the poll of the week of the.
Have you followed the releases of Apple and Xiaomi in recent weeks? Otherwise, I’ll make a quick summary: Apple has released the iPhone 13 series and released an interesting video mode called “Cinema Mode”. A few days later, Xiaomi presented the 11T and 11T Pro and also stressed the functions “Cinemagic” for filming with the mobile phone.
