You can’t set up a movie camera in a One Formula Race car. These agile vehicles are built with precise specifications and capture racing images from the driver’s point of view is not as simple as the slap A GoPro where And name it one day. This is the challenge that Apple faced after Joseph Kosinski and Claudio Miranda, the director and cinematographer of the next F1 Original Apple, I wanted to use real POV races in the movie.
If you have seen a formula race lately, you probably have seen clips that show an angle from behind the cabin, with the top or side of the driver’s helmet to the frame. Captured by cameras on board car, the resulting footage is designed to emit, through specific colored spaces and codecs. Converting — to match the rest of F1 The movie would be too difficult to be feasible. Instead, Apple’s engineering team replaced the diffusion module with a camera composed by iPhone parts.
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Photograph: Julian Chokkattu
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu
The module does not look like an iPhone. It intentionally resembles the emission camera module and Apple even had to coincide with the weight so that its version did not alter the specifications of a car. The interior, however, is completely different. (Apple gave us a take a look during WWDC last week Next to a F1 car.)
In The Heart there is an iPhone camera sensor powered by an A. Apple Chip Series did not specify the exact sensor or chipset, but they were used for a few cars in real F1 races during 2023 and 2024 seasons, so that there is the possibility that it was the same A17 Primary Chamber and 48 megapixels in the 48 megapyxe elementary camera iPhone 15 Pro. It also contained a battery of iPhone and a neutral density filter on the camera to reduce the light that enters the lens, giving the movie publishers more control over the exhibition.
No one hopes that an iPhone camera will work perfectly at incredible speeds or extreme conditions, so the engineering team had to consider this factor. They tested the camera module to ensure that he could withstand extreme shock, vibrations and heat, which supposedly exceeded the specifications provided by Formula 1.
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Julian Chokkattu
The module worked with iOS, but had a personalized firmware for the camera. The videos were caught in registration with Apple -free video codec, providing images that seem flat, but provides the publishers with much more granular color control and coincides with the visuals with the rest of the film. This personalized firmware inevitably caused two new features in the iPhone 15 Pro: Registration coding and support for the Academy Color Work System (ACES) of the Academy color.
Since there are no radios in the module, a personalized iPad app was the only way in which filmmakers could make changes to the camera flight. Once connected by USB-C, things such as frame speed, exposure gain, shutter angle and white balance could be adjusted. Here they also reached the record to start or stop recording. The wearing caught with the module is sprayed all over the F1 film.
