{"id":227057,"date":"2026-03-24T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:10:15","slug":"iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Diary: Shooting usable video in near-impossible conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/\">iPhone Diary: Shooting usable video in near-impossible conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/\">https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 09:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5mac.com\">9to5mac.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I last year explained why the iPhone had become my favourite video camera for B-roll footage despite owning a relatively expensive Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K rig.<\/p>\n<p>I outlined the three benefits of shooting with an iPhone in public places, and in my latest video project I discovered another one \u2026<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-1042916\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The three benefits I mentioned last time were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My iPhone is always with me, so I can capture impromptu footage<\/li>\n<li>Nobody takes any notice of someone shooting with a phone, including security guards<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s non-intimidating when being filmed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having really enjoyed my two previous interview projects, I naively imagined that I might be able to do one a month. Ha \u2013 I had absolutely zero appreciation for the scheduling challenges involved! For various reasons, arranging and filming the variety of B-roll footage I wanted for the latest one ended up taking several months.<\/p>\n<p>The final piece of footage I needed was my interviewee dancing in a salsa club. The total footage used only amounted to 21 seconds, but it was a pretty important part of the story, so I did feel I needed to include it.<\/p>\n<p>Walking into the venue, however, I had rather a big shock in store for me. I\u2019ve been to many dance events with funky mood lighting \u2013 including a Scottish reeling event also featured \u2013 but this particular venue was almost pitch black! The very limited lighting was also red, which casts way less illumination than any other color \u2013 which is why it\u2019s commonly used in environments where you don\u2019t want to affect the night vision of those present.<\/p>\n<p>It was so dark I could scarcely make out the face of the friend I was there to video, even when standing six feet away. I wasn\u2019t at all optimistic about the likely results. However, it had taken many weeks to obtain this opportunity, so it was what it was. I just had to shoot and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p>With a manual camera, I would have struggled to even achieve a light reading to set the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone Diary: Shooting usable video in near-impossible conditions https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/24\/iphone-diary-shooting-usable-video-in-near-impossible-conditions\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-24 09:55:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/iPhone-Diary-%E2%80%93-The-camera-let-me-shoot-video-in-near-impossible-conditions.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-227057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227059,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227057\/revisions\/227059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}