September 20 was a special day for Apple fans, as the newest iteration of the company’s smartphone, the iPhone 5s, went on sale. The youngest member of the iPhone clan was an instant success, and while some people were motivated to buy one by the simple camaraderie of hitting the Apple store with a group of friends, Apple also touts a number of technical advantages the iPhone 5s has over older models.
One of the biggest strides lies in the iPhone 5s’ camera, which we discovered can be used to take dramatic slow motion video that looks like something out of a movie.
While the ability to register your nipple to lock/unlock your iPhone5s is the strangest of the new model’s bells and whistles, changes to its camera allow you to indulge your creative side. For still photography, the burst mode allows you to take 10 photos inside of a second. It’s just the thing for when you’re shooting a moving subject, or if you’re the kind of person who somehow manages to have your eyes closed in every single snapshot you ask someone to take of you.
Our favorite addition, though, is the camera’s new slow motion video function. As we all know, everything looks more stylish when you slow it down, and we wasted no time trying it out.
However, we were reluctant to record the video inside the RocketNews24 offices, lest the slow motion clip find its way to our bosses and give them the impression that we’re all actually working at a snail’s pace. Instead, we headed out to Haneda, one of the two airports serving the Tokyo area.
Experienced travelers to Japan wondering why we went with Haneda instead of the better-known and more prestigious Narita Airport, may jump to the conclusion that we’re too cheap to shell out the additional train fare for the ride to the more remote Narita. This is in no way true. The reality is we’re too lazy, and the 60 fewer minutes of riding the rails required for a trip to Haneda is what won us over.
Plus, the flight paths out of Haneda, located on Tokyo Bay, mean that we could take awesome videos of the planes passing directly overhead.
Taking videos like this is a snap. All you have to do is select slow motion mode from the camera’s menu options, and you’re good to go. The settings can even be fine-tuned so that separate portions of the video can be recorded in slow motion and regular speed.
▼ We decided to go double or nothing on artistic expression by shooting in slow motion and portrait layout.
And there you have it: cinematic-style images without the hassle of hiring an entire film crew.
Now all we need to do is get the graphics department to add an overlay of the credits, hire a voiceover actor, and our trailer for RocketNews24 – The Movie will be all set.
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Image, videos: RocketNews24