It’s no secret that the iPhone 6s packs a pretty darn great camera, but how does it compare to a professional DSLR like the Nikon D750?
A recent 4K video shootout compares the two and, wouldn’t you know it, finds that Apple’s next-gen handset pretty much owns the Nikon in terms of filming beautiful, crisply detailed footage.
Check out the video below.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that a camera like the Nikon D750 is valueless. 4K shooting is basically an extra for the camera, much as it is for the iPhone. It’s also much easier to switch lenses on the Nikon. And the footage, shot by YouTuber Lee Morris of Fstoppers, is all captured under optimal conditions, with no low-light testing.
With that proviso, however, it’s astonishing how great the iPhone 6s camera is. Just 10 years ago, what were then called “smartphones” could only shoot low-res, pixelated still images and video. It’s a cliche to talk about high-tech democratizing industries, but when it comes to putting high-quality cameras in the hands of the masses, that’s exactly what devices like the iPhone have done.
Color me impressed.
Via: Ubergizmo
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
14 responses to “iPhone 6s defeats $3,000 Nikon DSLR in 4K video battle”
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who’ll argue that there are other smartphones better than the iPhone for shooting 4K video because their camera’s have more pixels and image stabilization (the 6s Plus does have image stabilization). Anyway, Sony needn’t worry about pros replacing their DSLRs with iPhones. Pros love to collect lenses for every situation they run into.
I don’t know too much about camera tech – but iPhone 6 Plus had OIS – so I don’t see why they’d remove that from the iPhone 6S Plus.
iPhone 6S Plus had OIS too
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Click bait much. I guess it helps that the d750 shoots 1080p and not 4k. Not really a comparison.
Actually the D750 DOES shoot 4K.
Ha! No it doesn’t… I own one.
This review is BS, to say the least! 1) D-750 is not a pro camera, the D4 is! 2) It doesn’t shoot 4K! Nothing more than a click bait! The writer is a bozo to say the least!
As a professional photogrammetrist and Nikon photographer, as well as an avid Apple Fanboy I have to say that I don’t agree with this title at all or the spin that is going on about this. “4K Battle” is not fair when the Nikon DOES NOT shoot in 4K. It’s a total uneven fight. I’m sure when Nikon releases 4K video on an update to the D750 it will blow away the iphone. Of course it’s crisper, there are more pixels! This whole post is silly and misrepresentative.
Pfft. Still no match for the A7IIS. The Sony will crush you in low light, it better at over four times the price just for the body. But seriously, no way that tiny little chip in the iPhone is going to match a Full Frame when the rubber meets the road. Each pixel is much, much, much bigger on the FF which is why the Sony is absolutely fearless in the dark, going places that the iPhone dare not tread. Plus there is that business about lenses, Sony has them, Apple doesn’t. Cannon has them, Apple Doesn’t. No way whatever outsourced Chinese slice of glass Apple is using is going mano-a-mano against Carl Zeiss, Sony G, Nikon or Cannon glass, not happening. As for running native 4K right out of the box, please, the Sony ILC will do donuts around your iPhone all day long with a laundry list of Video Codecs under its belt. The Cannon is no slouch mind you, it’s just that Sony just took aim at it with malice aforethought. The 50D and A7IIS are serious Full Frame solutions for Serious 4K video. The iPhone 6s is a pleasant enough diversion. But it is folly to compare the two in any sentence other than “for someone wanting to just try out 4K video”
Wow ,I totally agree with you,,the difference is quite noticeable,
Good job my friend
This is like comparing a Jeep Wrangler with a Lamborghini Veneno, no point at all
Great job Sony(the people that actually MADE the iPhone camera)!!
Wouldn’t it be better to compare it to a 4k camera? Like a GH4?
It’s like downsampling a Canon 5DSR and an A7S to 5MP, then saying the Canon is sharper.