It would be extremely amazing if it did.
I would like to film hours of 8K footage for future proofing digital memories.
I would like to film hours of 8K footage for future proofing digital memories.
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So you’re the reason why Apple charges so much for storage. There’s still plenty of things that aren’t in 4K let alone 8K so it’s very niche and you’ll not see it on an iPhone for many years.
Chances? Unsure, it's a wild guess as we haven't seen a credible rumor to point to a specific type of camera module being used.
I would say chances are slim at best.
Tech isn't there yet. They would need to half ass it like Samsung did with the S20 whatever. 8k 24fps 8bit h265, the only redeeming spec is a resolution that no one has a display to natively display...everything else is objectively worse. Plus a 5 min max recording time which is likely due to the SoC throttling from processing and encoding the image data. Its almost insulting that they are so blatantly selling meaningless big number specs to uninformed consumers.
Plus Apple needs to address their entire ecosystem to support it because what good is it if you can only view it on the iPhone and a high end computer in a 3rd party viewer? iCloud, tvOS, MacOS, iPadOS, editing software needs real support, etc. We are currently still transcoding from h265 to h264 for compatibility to device that don't support or have unknown support for h265. 8k even at Samsung specs makes files too large to be useful for sharing when transcoded to h264.
It won't be till there is a strong 8k market with established efficient standards before Apple rolls out 8k video capture. But even then only if its on par with what they have now, which btw still has room for improvement. Everyone is leaning so hard on machine learning and AI to make up for the lack of optical capabilities a tiny phone camera has I really don't see the point at this time.
There is a reason for 8K now: Crop
If the resolution is reasonable and the moment a one shot deal, 8K gives you more options. A more forgivable second chance at composition, you can even crop with the same video and achieve two slightly different perspectives with one camera phone all synched up. Like 60 fps at 4K, you only use it for slo mo. Even 30 fps is now the slightly easy going tempo at 24 fps.
So you can shoot 8K with no intention of playing back at 8K.
Here is a comon example. In 8K you shoot your child’s brithday blowing out the candles and openning gifts. For the wide shot of everyone you just drop the resolution down to HD or 4K. Then in the same video your child gets real excited opening up a present, and here you will crop around the child’s face to show up his unplanned experience. See how 8K could work.
Also, there really is little point to getting a 48mp sensor without offering up 8K.
Also, there really is little point to getting a 48mp sensor without offering up 8K.
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I wonder if the chips that are currently in development for 14 Pro and 15 Pro would be able to handle this efficiently? I highly doubt it. Better chance of them doing slo-mo 1080P@1000fps or something like that.