How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’

You can’t mount the movie camera in any Formula One Race Car. These nimble vehicles are built for specific glasses and not as easy as slapping racing footage from the driver’s point of view Turned on a gopro And call it a day. Joseph Coscinsky and the next director and cinematographer Claudio Miranda after Apple faced that challenge F1 Apple Original wanted to use Real POV racing footage in the film.

If you have seen a formula one race lately you have seen the clips that shows an angle from the back of the cockpit, with the top or side of the driver’s helmet in the frame. Capturing by the onboard camera that is embedded in the vehicle, as a result, the footage is designed for broadcast using specific color spaces and codecs. Convert it to match the rest of the look F1 The film would be very challenging to be possible. Instead, Apple’s engineering team replaced the broadcast module with a camera composed of iPhone parts.

Custom camera

Photograph: Julian Chokkatu

Photograph: Julian Chokkatu

The module does not look like the iPhone. It is intentionally similar to the broadcast camera module and matches Apple even with weight so its version does not change any vehicle glasses. The interior, however, is completely different. (Apple gave us a Last week to boil during the W. As well as an F1 car.)

The heart has an iPhone camera sensor powered by an i-series chip. Apple does not specify the correct sensor or chipset, but they were used for a few cars in real F1 Rus through 2023 and 2024 seasons, so it had an opportunity to have the same A18-Megapixel initial camera IPhone 15 ProThe It also has an iPhone battery on the camera and a neutral density filter to reduce the lenses entered in the lens, giving further control over the film editors exposure.

No one expects the iPhone camera to be innocent in incredible speed or extreme circumstances, so the engineering team had to consider this factor. They have tested the camera module to ensure that it can withstand extreme shock, vibration and heat – it is thought to have exceeded the glasses provided by Formula One.

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The module was the iOS but had a custom firmware for the camera. The videos were captured in the log format with Apple’s Prors Loslese Video Codec, which shows the footage that shows flat, but the editors control more grades in the color grade and match the rest of the film to the visuals. This custom firmware inevitably has taken two new features IPhone 15 Pro: Log encoding and Academy Color encoding system (ACES) color support for color flow.

Since there is no radio in the module, a custom iPad app is only filmmakers can make fly changes in camera. Once connected via USB-C, they can adjust things like frame rate, exposure profit, shutter angle and white balance. This is also where they will hit the record to start recording or stop the recording. The footage caught with the module is the footage Sprinkle F1 filmThe