How To Use a Profoto Flash With an iPhone. 

Flexibility is very important to me. Thing happen that professional photographers should be able to adapt to. I like the idea of being able to use a premium phone with a premium light once ametuers see the price of the B10 I am almost positive they will close the page, in most cases anyway.... Additionally for run and gun shooters having a minimalist kit for shooting content for maybe your instagram, this works great. I would personally rather have a full frame camera with lens options, but I would definitely like to have this as an option! Wonder what it looks like in the studio🤔?

Fstoppers show raws , clown

How to connect flash for iPhone

Why not frame her between the two windows iso of just orange wall

Can you use 2 lights?

Crazy gorgeous

And she seems like a very nice person too 😍

Oh yes, she's really beautiful. Can't keep eyes off her. She seems to have a very pleasant personality as well, bubbly at times.

Jaw droppingly stunning

She's so classic and elegant

Profoto C1 .....

You can just have the iPhone automatically sync everything your shoot to iCloud. No need for Lightroom. If you’re sharing your photo stream in the Apple ecosystem, you could have an assistant anywhere in the world instantly accessing and downloading the images and processing them in any program he/she wishes.

@@JohnRicard That requires an iphone, and icloud does not upload full resolution or RAW does it? I have a Samsung S20. With Adobe CC, it can be ANY device that your camera can wifi or Bluetooth to. And then, your assistant, anywhere in the world, can still have access to RAW files

@@jscottbradshaw Believe it or not, iCloud does actually upload the RAW file.

Hahahahahaa....I know right

Lol yeah Bluetooth and WiFi has been around for a long time now, really feel like this should of happened a long time ago along with Bluetooth on tv's so you can sync your phone or headphones to it so you don't disturb people at night.

Christian Comes the sensor is tiny...still, I get your point. Imagine having the option of having a native ISO of 32 on a full frame. That would be amazing :)

TINY sensor

@@WhittyPics sure, it is 9x smaller than MFT, so about 3 stops, it should be ISO 32 Iphone = ISO 288 in MFT, and my friend, that picture at 11:17 has TERRIBLE noise vs. MFT ISO 320. So I think that there must be some Apple "magic" shadow recovery or whatever that is making things worse than they need to be

ISO 32 wasn't the setting for the evening shot, was it?

Jairaj Patil i thoughy yes, but i could be wrong

give it a few months. godox will be out with their version of it.

I tried to use White or silver big reflector. Somehow it works and costs only about 20€

@@joashmanning godox already has a version.

While Profoto gear is indeed expensive, the price of one B10 unit ($1,600) is not out of line with what a photographer would have paid for his iPhone 11 Pro Max ($1,000-$1,500 depending on storage).

@@joashmanning It's not a Fstoppers video if the equipment does not cost month/few months of salary :D But hey, the technology is here so it's matter of time when we some cheaper alternatives.

I guess it could be useful if you showed up to a shoot and forgot your camera's memory cards or batteries

@@thatcherfreeman, true - but in that case I would really have to reconsider my choice of profession - and most probably I'd die from embarassement before I'd take the first shot. It still hurts my brain to think I would take bridal pictures with anything else but the best camera at hand - not only for flash sync reasons, but also obviously because of dof concerns - I know, phones can simulate aperture digitally, but I rather buy a nice new lens than an iPhone for my professional needs. Phone pics are reserved for those moments when I really did not bring anything else...

And I think the surprise would be HOW big business this "The only use case I see is like behind the scenes social media type content" will be. ;-)

@@JanThomasPettersen even social media youtubers don't do their video with a phone... at least not the high traffic ones.

@@ayayoutuber ...also strobes do not help you, even if you do video with your phone 😅

at most like a galaxy photo...other phones using same sony camera sensor will be the same. it's not like apple make their own sensor. all the BS which phone company make better picture is BS, cause as long as the sensors are the same...the result won't be that far apart. and why you need LiDAR on a camera? not like you need to autopilot your phone.

@@ayayoutuber You got it wrong tho, Apple designs and Sony makes the sensor, it isnt like others can also use the same sensor or they are buying a Sony design, also sensor is a small thing in a phone, so most of the look and data comes from computational photography. It depends on how good their algorithms are,how better their chips etc. are. LIDAR will be used for depth data to get better depth information for portrait mode, but that isn't its primary feature, they'll just be trying to squeeze everything out of it, so they'll optimize and calliberate it with the camera modes, meanwhile it's primary feature will still be for AR usage, which apple is going towards in the future, that's why they implemented it in the ipads first to gather data to improve it in the future iphones.

still waiting :)

@@kocialagency You can shot ur AD600 with the X2T with Bluetooth

As far as I know godox can already do this. What u just need to have is one of their approx 50 dollar with Bluetooth trigger that will connect to the smartphone. Then u can use to with any wireless godox flash

exactly what i thought

Indeed. This would be useful as a backup though

Unconventional but would be kinda cool to be able to like airdrop some photos to the client immediately on site and then get them the edited/color graded/printed photos later

Unpaid photography maybe.

@@travis8665 I would say paid photography. You factor in how powerful image editing software with AI is getting, and you would not be able to tell the difference. Matter of fact, in some cases you can not tell the difference now.

and pro cameras will be getting 5x times better as well. Right now we are in the golden age of mirrorless cameras with Nikon, Sony and Canon releasing some really strong and impressive mirrorless cameras that easily destroys an iphone 12.

@@harryvuemedia5106 if I take a picture with an iphone with OCF, and a 100MP camera with OCF and show you both pictures online, would you be able to tell the difference?

@@Demas242 yup! i can tell the difference since i own an a7Riii and have use my friend's a7Riv so I do pixel peak a lot. Besides that, I am also a videographer and photographer. The only time it will be hard to tell the difference is when im looking at both images from a smartphone. The difference is HUGE and you would not dare show up to a $3,500 wedding gig using 2 iphones to take photos. I use 3 cameras for weddings, 2 sony a7iii for candid photos and the a7Riii for portraits and group shots.

Please no

Godox X2T has bluetooth, but sync speed is 1/30 max as I've tried.

@@Justas49 I know, here it's just app.

Godox has the A1 Smartphone-Flash which can trigger most Godox flashes from an iOS-Device. Unfortunately though it only works with their Photo-app which is kinda limited.

That kind of thing GODOX Do😄😄😄! They actually simplify things in a cheap way

Godox A1

It can do raw and jpeg. I’m not sure on Portrait mode since it’s through Profoto app. I have an iPhone 7. Can test that feature.

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@@CallMeRabbitzUSVI lmao. Well goddamn. Whats after cell phones. Those censors elon is creating. Take photo upload to social media. 😅

Lume cubes are led constant lights if I remember correctly. They can’t over power the sun. -P

Fstoppers that’s correct :) I didn’t say they are better or stronger though. My point is it’s nice to see Profoto integrating this feature :) not many people who only use their iPhones for photography will own a Profoto light so this is basically a nice add on for mostly professional photographers only. Luke cubes on the other hand are affordable so I believe it’s more interesting to general people as well.

Thank you :) I was going to comment that.

exactly

It’s a10 compatible now

Yup. Let alone afford a Profoto.

Garbid Jup!

Does is sync the flash? Because triggering is a totally different animal. If it’s jus triggering and adjusting settings all of them (Broncolor, Godox ,etc) hace it.

Jaime Duncan it does when connect to the x2 and A1 it’s just like using Nikon cls you set the flash power and settings in the app take the photo and either the x2 or the a1 triggers and fires the flash units. So your phone is kinda like a main commander through the app. Make sense ?

@@grimlightwildoutdoors Yes, it's not what this video shows. That is what Broncolor had for millennia in terms of technology.

I think you are wrong. People had the same arrogance regarding digital when it first came out. They just didn’t understand what it mean. I remember photographers ridiculing autofocus because they didn’t understand that either. There are tons of uses for this technology -including instant backup. It would be wise for all photographers to take this seriously and spend time thinking if they can benefit by incorporating this into their work.

@@JohnRicard you wrong, there are so many cheap DSLRs and phones nowadays are more expensive than ever. And the cheapest camera like 3 time cheaper than iPhone will produce 10 times better picture than not just iPhone but any cell phone on the market. So the chance people using their phone in a photoshoot with strobes is very very very low. Not every technology is suitable in every scenario.

@@hofra01 Image quality is not the only consideration. Especially when most photos will only be used on social media and the image quality from an iPhone and your "cheap DSLR" camera will be indistinguishable. Here are some reasons someone might chose to use an iPhone with Profoto lights over a DSLR with lights: Instant backup of images into the cloud immediately after they are shot with no work at all from the photographer, traveling super light with just a small Profoto B10 and an iPhone in the pocket, shooting without permission in a mall or museum iPhone will be less noticeable, immediate ability to edit the photos and transmit them to a client without ever downloading images onto a laptop (which also requires a chair and desk to operate), shooting in a dangerous environment like a crackhouse where theft of equipment is a real concern and the iPhone is less likely to be stolen because of its security features and low resale value, broadcasting the entire photoshoot live from the phone to an audience of thousands of fans of the person being photographed, iPhone's ability to focus in near darkness thanks to lidar technology which no DSLR has. So you have to look beyond just image quality to understand how useful this could be. And think about it, if "image quality' were our main concern, no one would be using your "cheap DSLR" in the first place because they'd have to use a state of the art high megapixel medium format camera, right?

you could do the same with the most cheaper godox this is a pure commercial video promoting Profoto, when Godox do exactly the same since at least 2 years

I trust you are writing this comment on the cheapest cell phone or cheapest Chromebook that you can buy. Right?

@@JohnRicard Amen. Lol

@@JohnRicard you want discuss about Light or cell Phones? they are different things but i don't know if you can see the difference?

@@malsvp I don't understand what you are saying here. You had written that it makes no sense buying the Profoto because you could get a cheaper unit from Godox. I countered by saying I hope you apply that same logic to your cell phone and that you are not using an expensive iPhone. Not sure what you are saying here in response.

Elbert Fliek exactly... and just imagine customers are saying drop your price and just take photos with your iPhone.... like wtf... then they‘ll shit on you for not giving you a good quality picture...

In some situations, a camera will bring lots of onlookers and attention, with a iPhone and a B10, not as much.

Ironically, I still consider the B10 and B10 Plus are still considered portable lights. The "big" lights are the powerpack lights and heads that are 1000 ws and up. -P

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GODOX

@@ManuelSierra I wish they would do it. But they are not investing in that at all… 😕

Please can share which camera app you use?