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Sadly the mini was a flop, it didn’t sell well. People want big phones apparently which I find annoying as one hand gesture operation is impossible, not to mention pocket ability and discretion while shooting. Those are the reasons why I still use my 13 mini as my daily driver despite having a « better » regular size iPhone.

Just like camera manufactures i guess. You can get option A & B but not option A & B and C, or option C & B but not A Mini size factor may have less of a profit margin as well and perhaps even overheating, mostly i suspect its more about marketing segments and better profit margins. however i think you know this already 🙂

My daily driver is an iPhone 13 mini and that won’t change (lowkey wish they’d reintroduce the mini line, everyone I know that has one loves them). But my secondary iPhone will be getting a substantial upgrade to the 17 Pro. It’s the first pro model that resonates with me. Love the rugged unibody design, previous pro models still had that fragile precious feel I despise. And of course the specs. One that few seem to mention is that open gate will be supported through Final Cut Camera 2.0. And the front camera sensor is square which allows multi aspect ratios, a cool direction. I do more and more vertical work for social and a lot of times they want the “iPhone” look not a heavy graded shallow DoF look so main benefit for that will be the cameras but I have seen impressive videos shot on iPhone Pros. 28 years later included. So who knows to what capacity all these codecs, log, open gate etc will be used.

BM camera app will allow you to shoot Apple log in h.265 with very good quality. Saves soooo much space and looks great.

Me too here, very likely. For the first time. Windows and Android user, so far. There's external SSD recording, and they're pretty on the nano side these days, so the 256GB version is enough.

Agreed and one of the reasons why as much as I like the look of the new Canon, the lack of IBIS is a no go for me and if that puts me in the camp of being a non-serious filmmaker, 🤷‍♂️ I also do not want to and will not rig anything up so the micro hdmi I could not care less about.