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A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs


Here's how Apple took the iPhone 16 Pro's video capture and playback to another level with 4K 120fps slow-mo recording, spatial audio and new Audio Mix editing tools.

It is fascinating to see the amount of time, testing and calibration that Apple poured into the iPhone 16 series' cameras and microphones and developing unique new features like Audio Mix. I don't know what's more impressive, the amount of data the iPhone 16 Pro needs to process to get 4K 120fps to work or how great the image quality and dynamic range are in the resulting slow-motion video. It's one thing for Apple to show off the effort and time its engineers have spent to get features like Audio Mix or 4K slow motion to work, but it's another to be able to use them in an easy and consistent way.

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