BREAKTHROUGH: Hand-waved iPhone 13 pursuit camera outperforms rails for rapid field testing
Posted: 05 May 2022, 17:45
Handwave Smartphones Now Outperform Rails for Field Testing
After collecting data for 5 years, we have discovered that amazingly, handwave pursuit camera can sometimes outperform “less-than-high-end” field rail setups.
An expert permanent headquarters rail will always outperform hand-waves, but field testing often use tripods that are shaky and too lightweight, e.g. capturing pursuit photos of a display at a convention or at a store (like Best Buy).
Pursuit Camera Rail Problems For Rapid Field Testing
- Shaky light tripods
- Carpets at convention floors
- Heavy camera that flexes cheap travel-friendly camera rails
- Some conventions won't let you enter with large metal objects (security).
- Rail vibrations while camera slides on cheap lightweight rails
- Only few photo attempts are possible in 5 minutes
- You have to "fight" the camera settings sometimes.
Handwave Smartphone Advantages For Rapid Field Testing
- 4K Video as burstshoot substitute (1000+ photographs in 30 seconds)
- Custom apps can be downloaded
- Brute-force thousands of photographs compensates for error of hand-shaky
- Easy to jog-shuttle forward/back in video players to find the good photos
- TestUFO "Sync Track" invention is almost as good as a defacto a cryptographic certificate of hand tracking accuracy
- Much less setup/teardown required
Why good practiced iPhone/Galaxy handwaves now outperform rapidly-setup field rail builds
- Field testing requires rapid setup and teardown.
- Sometimes tripods have to be put into a carpet in a convention.
- Sometimes a SLR camera is too heavy for a lightweight mobile camera rail.
- Cheap lightweight camera rail flexes and vibrates a lot.
- Cheap tripods flexes too much.
- Easier media management of originals; one video file instead of a pollution of unusable burstshoot JPGs
- No time to validate a field build of a camera rail (convention, TV store, prototype)
- Handwave smartphone means no airline baggage, no carryons needed! Travel to conventions like CES/DisplayWeek/Computex/CEDIA/etc via ultra low fare airlines like RyanAir, Swoop, AlaskaAir, etc!
New 8K Phones Do Excellent 4K Video Almost SLR Quality Per Freezeframe
- 30fps video burst-shoots 1800 photographs per minute (brute-force your way out of shaky hand error margin)
- 60fps video burst-shoots 3600 photographs per minute (brute-force your way out of shaky hand error margin)
- Phone technology has now improved massively as of year 2022
- Some phones have amazing excellent image stabilization that does not affect freezeframe quality
- Camera apps on iPhone such as DSLRCamera or ProCam that turns video into a manual burst-shoot emulator
Handwave Professionals Now Reporting 0.1 Pixel Error Margins Now!
A few years ago, handwaved smartphones were achieving 0.25 pixel error margins.
Two years ago, cheaper phones did this:
This already finally matched the rail quality of a mid-range field test rail-based pursuit camera rig with its cons listed above.
Today, with newer 8K optical-stabilized smartphones (iPhone 13) but using downconverted high-bitrate 4K settings to its high speed SSD-quality flash memory...
It is now possible to get 0.1 pixel error margin with handwaves, perhaps less, on some newer 8K-capable smartphones running at its conservative 4K settings for near-SLR-quality per freezeframe. Apparently, its optical image stabilization responds fast enough to sometimes do a near-perfect pursuit greatly compensating for the error margins of a shaky hands.
This exceeds rail-quality for field rigs!
After collecting data for 5 years, we have discovered that amazingly, handwave pursuit camera can sometimes outperform “less-than-high-end” field rail setups.
An expert permanent headquarters rail will always outperform hand-waves, but field testing often use tripods that are shaky and too lightweight, e.g. capturing pursuit photos of a display at a convention or at a store (like Best Buy).
Pursuit Camera Rail Problems For Rapid Field Testing
- Shaky light tripods
- Carpets at convention floors
- Heavy camera that flexes cheap travel-friendly camera rails
- Some conventions won't let you enter with large metal objects (security).
- Rail vibrations while camera slides on cheap lightweight rails
- Only few photo attempts are possible in 5 minutes
- You have to "fight" the camera settings sometimes.
Handwave Smartphone Advantages For Rapid Field Testing
- 4K Video as burstshoot substitute (1000+ photographs in 30 seconds)
- Custom apps can be downloaded
- Brute-force thousands of photographs compensates for error of hand-shaky
- Easy to jog-shuttle forward/back in video players to find the good photos
- TestUFO "Sync Track" invention is almost as good as a defacto a cryptographic certificate of hand tracking accuracy
- Much less setup/teardown required
Why good practiced iPhone/Galaxy handwaves now outperform rapidly-setup field rail builds
- Field testing requires rapid setup and teardown.
- Sometimes tripods have to be put into a carpet in a convention.
- Sometimes a SLR camera is too heavy for a lightweight mobile camera rail.
- Cheap lightweight camera rail flexes and vibrates a lot.
- Cheap tripods flexes too much.
- Easier media management of originals; one video file instead of a pollution of unusable burstshoot JPGs
- No time to validate a field build of a camera rail (convention, TV store, prototype)
- Handwave smartphone means no airline baggage, no carryons needed! Travel to conventions like CES/DisplayWeek/Computex/CEDIA/etc via ultra low fare airlines like RyanAir, Swoop, AlaskaAir, etc!
New 8K Phones Do Excellent 4K Video Almost SLR Quality Per Freezeframe
- 30fps video burst-shoots 1800 photographs per minute (brute-force your way out of shaky hand error margin)
- 60fps video burst-shoots 3600 photographs per minute (brute-force your way out of shaky hand error margin)
- Phone technology has now improved massively as of year 2022
- Some phones have amazing excellent image stabilization that does not affect freezeframe quality
- Camera apps on iPhone such as DSLRCamera or ProCam that turns video into a manual burst-shoot emulator
Handwave Professionals Now Reporting 0.1 Pixel Error Margins Now!
A few years ago, handwaved smartphones were achieving 0.25 pixel error margins.
Two years ago, cheaper phones did this:
This already finally matched the rail quality of a mid-range field test rail-based pursuit camera rig with its cons listed above.
Today, with newer 8K optical-stabilized smartphones (iPhone 13) but using downconverted high-bitrate 4K settings to its high speed SSD-quality flash memory...
It is now possible to get 0.1 pixel error margin with handwaves, perhaps less, on some newer 8K-capable smartphones running at its conservative 4K settings for near-SLR-quality per freezeframe. Apparently, its optical image stabilization responds fast enough to sometimes do a near-perfect pursuit greatly compensating for the error margins of a shaky hands.
This exceeds rail-quality for field rigs!