let's start with the iPhone the 16 and 16 Pros um the main two things that I think will come through in the review because as we're recording this I haven't made the reviews yet but the main two things are one these phones are unfinished they don't have any apple apple intelligence features at all at launch and two cameras are really interesting and I think the an that I'm trying to finish for this review for the cameras is that the way that a camera looks and processes images is kind of like EQ in music in headphones
for example the way that these headphones sound out the box if you like them great if you don't that's fine that's just one of the ways that they can sound change the EQ now they sound like this change the EQ now they sound like this and photographic styles on the iPhone are kind of there so the power of defaults is very strong and the iPhone still has a look with their default image but that's just one of the ways it can look and there are surfacing ways to remind you of different ways it can look
I think those are my two biggest observations look I you could probably buy this new 16 and be fine it's it's not that dramatic of a change from the 15 or the 14 the pros are better in the camera department and better in the screen Department as they are every year great 4K 120 super cool but yeah that's that's basically new iPhones in a nutshell I have a lot to say about photographic Styles mhm they so okay for those that don't know yet there are photographic Styles first launched in the iPhone 13 series the pros
uh but they only had like a few different styles that you could have in it yeah like four or five or something and you could like there was a there was like a tone slider and a and like a color slider a a warmth slider but those are the only two things you could change there were only like four presets and you had to take a photo in the photographic style when you took it you couldn't change it it was baked in they made a big deal about how it's not just a filter it's like
in the pipeline you know which is true still true now they have added a ton of different presets which is very cool I personally think the gold preset is like by far my favorite it feels sort of like Kodak gold it's uh it's it's nice it's warm it's contrasty the interesting thing about photographic Styles this year are is twofold one the first time you open the camera app now just the camera app at all like the first thing that shows up is hey photographic Styles look at this try it take a few photos like it
is in your face like change the way that you C want the camera to work by default right now and I think that that is basically their response to people like me who complain a lot about this like raised Shadows uh no contrast processed computational photography look where they're like all right if you want to actually get your camera to look the way you want it to look set it when you first set up your iPhone and it will always look like that you can go in and change it if you want but here which
I think is awesome I just immediately set it to the gold one and honestly generally that's like good enough for me but the other thing is they now have this like they change the way the sliders look so they still have uh these like settings near the top but they have basically a touchpad where you you take the style and you can change this like 3des slider between saturation and like brightness where you can up the the like shadows and you can up the saturation in this like kind of 3D space or there's just a
simple slider for saturation where it's like applying the style yeah um and I think that overall like giving people this much more control out of the box is like a very smart move from Apple because they don't want to come out and say you know what you're right we went way too hard on the computational photography we're just going to change the default Pipeline and it's going to be more contrasty and it's going to have less Shadow detail and now they're saying you want something different do it yourself which I like that they're like shoving
it in people's faces so that they have the opportunity to actually do it whereas photographic styles on the iPhone 13 was like not very obvious and also was not very customizable do you think it's more like when I just think of people complaining that it's computational photography and they don't want it versus people who like film photo styles are in in style right now and giving them options like that like the Fuji yeah like I mean people are taking way more photos on film or at least trying to make things look like film more recent
and that's part of it I wouldn't say that this is necessarily like filmy but I it's getting into like a small style and I just feel like the general public of people who Apple would want to change something for probably aren't like this looks too computational photography yeah they also probably want people to less go to third party editing apps and stay their first party stuff go and apple have both added like editing stuff in their photos app and now they're putting it directly in the camera yeah yeah yeah no there's there's a there's a
lot of people who don't love the way that the new cameras look and the fact that this is built in and super easily accessible and the last thing is it's now moved to the end of the image processing pipeline so it's the least destructive it's the thing that you can edit after you take the shots so it's the thing that feels like the most encouraged for you to change after you take a picture but at the same time it's also at the front of the pipeline where you get to see in live view it's it's
looking with that fil in the actual in the actual processing pipeline like when you when you stack a bunch of things it's the last thing so that if you change it it is uh full quality change which is awesome but I think more people will use it because they get to see the preview of what it looks like versus like people are just normal people who aren't that super into photography stuff now are going to be like oh this looks fun as I'm taking it versus like oh that is there but I took the picture
and I already forgot to go back and like add that filter on and more we talk about this the more it makes sense to me that Apple not necessarily is so hellbent against calling it a button but they do love calling it camera control and that's the theme for this iPhone is camera control you have control over the way your camera looks and the way your camera works it's a great that's a great point it's still a button okay just to be clear I don't get why they're so I don't I don't either spal Computing
they hate that people say button but yes it is it's control over your camera they're giving you control over your camera this year with the iPhone 16s that's what's happening yeah so want to talk about the butt that's to totally a button the button it's fine it's you know it's a little finicky for me it's kind of in this slight split the difference spot where like it feels okay in landscape and it feels okay in portrait but not great in either totally fine agree um but yeah you can swipe through I end up mainly using
it for tone like just deepening the contrast and the shadows and like messing with that just so I can see the shadows in real time and taking those shots oh wait can I try real quick I haven't tried this yet I think it's hard to use I think the half press is harder to use than it should be the half press takes some real like like tact like you have to get used to how much pressure you need wait I see no you just took a photo no no no no no no no I was
making sure that I wasn't doing it I think the half press is pretty easy you got to double tap the half press you got to double half press to bring up the menu and you don't have to take yeah what you probably just did worked and then you swipe back and forth and there's a little bit of momentum with the swipes so if you swipe like with extra speed you can go two or three instead of one there's there's the got some issues yeah there's a learning curve I think they need better acceleration on the
uh on the swiping it feels to me like it's not sensitive enough personally I think the half click's not bad but the double half click is tough yeah double half clicking is really tough yeah it just doesn't feel intuitive and it's interesting that they put this button on the regular iPhone 16 as well I like when they're giving you all these additional settings like they're giving you like aperture control which it's fake aperture yep portrait mode yeah it's portrait mode oh I in portrait doing this just makes me feel like I'm holding my phone yeah
like in a very precarious way and that is going to fall out of my hand at any second yeah thank you I think with the iPhone the power of defaults again is really strong here I think I'm predicting that 90s something per of people will never know what this camera control thing does other than if I press it I take a picture yeah I think that's what most people will end up doing with it but there will be some Pro tips and some YouTube videos that show you how to take advantage of it and on
the pro iPhone this is something that people who are really into the smartphone photography will get into you can do a lot with it and third party apps are going to build in controls for it as well and it's going to be kind of powerful but it only does things that you can also already do with onscreen controls so it's not like necessary watching NE thing try and use that in portrait mode I'm scared that phone is going to fall it looks so all of your fingers are within the bottom 25% of that phone right
now you know what you know my take is they should have ignored portrait mode if this is if you are a a pro video user or whatever you're turning the phone sideways even though that's technically not true anymore with all the vertical content online turn it sideways now you're using camera control which is why I think they could have put it just in the Pro Camera and they could have called it like Pro Camera and that's it yeah Pro Camera control and then that they have another differentiator to buy the profile I hate advocating for
this no yeah screw both of you leave it perspective yeah because one of the themes this year is actually how good the standard iPhone 16 is MHM yeah yeah they've brought a lot of things it has 8 gigs of RAM now just like the pro phones it's got a pretty I mean there's still a gap between the cameras but a pretty good set of cameras um it has the camera control like the pro phones now as well so there's a lot of things that they've done with the base phones that make it convincing I personally
and I've said this probably every time I've talked about this iPhone phone can't use a 60 HZ phone in 2024 I can't sorry I just can't do it but if you can then the only difference between this and the pro phones is going to be cameras and bigger screens thanks for watching this clip thanks for going from the mid pod to the clips thing because you did all that work I will now get to tell you what speed Halo is speed Halo was a custom game mode that a guy named uh Darth something Darth human
I think his on Halo Reach like where you could download custom apps and it was this game where on the infection game mode right and it was this big tube like a diagonal tube with a teleporter at the bottom and a teleporter at the top and a bunch of wart hogs at the top okay and it would start with everyone in jeeps in the War Hogs uh driving down the hill and then one zombie with a gravity hammer at the bottom and they'd have to they' have to slam the warthogs as they like whizzed by
over the course of the game because the warthogs are just teleporting back up they pick up serious speech to the point where you're doing one rotation it's like and so but then also the infected is gets more and more kills so the game starts with a bunch of warthogs going really slowly and one guy just trying to slam them and it ends with an entire field of zombies with gravity hammers and one W hog just going and it's like the most cha it was like so much more fun than anything else that has ever been
in Halo I think that every game that allows for custom game modes has like one or two just ridiculously fun ridiculously fun ridiculously unhinged game what's awesome is they do those custom game things and then people create stuff that's so popular it gets added into the game later like DOTA the game I mean infection was a custom game thing where you had to physically go and change teams we would do like zombies and one would have the gravity sword as the zombie but the way you did it was just everyone was on one team except
for one and everyone had a shotgun and a sword but you had to tell everyone like you are only allowed to use the shotgun you are only allowed to use that and when you die you have to manually switch teams you guys weren't Griff ball players were you Griff ball I've heard of it all right this is you're the new age Halo that was the old Halo This is actually a a red versus blue reference so this is this is from Halo 2 or one so actually okay anyway you guys ever play Little Big Planet
I we can't we're out of time thanks for watching this clip like And subscribe we'll see you next week we're out baby hi bu [Music]
