Apple Rolls Out New IPhone 11 Pro, With Filmmakers And Photographers In Focus
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Apple today introduced the first iPhone ever to bear the name “Pro,” a new model designed for high-end users — notably filmmakers and photographers.
The new iPhone 11 Pro will cost $999 and the “Max” edition of it is $1,099. They will accompany a more basic iPhone 11, which retails at $699.
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Apple previously has made only desktops and laptops under the “Pro” moniker. Many film industry vets have used the Pro equipment and apps like Final Cut Pro to make films (David Fincher and the Coen brothers were among early champions), though its popularity in pro circles has waned a bit in recent years.
Timed to the September 20 on-sale date of the phones, the company will reopen its flagship store on New York’s Fifth Avenue. The site across from the Plaza Hotel has been doubled in size and redesigned.
The new devices were shown off at the end of a nearly two-hour Apple product event in Cupertino, which featured news like the $4.99-a-month price point and November 1 launch of Apple TV+.
In order to highlight the capabilities of the Pro phone, the tech giant played a short black-and-white sequence shot on a soundstage by director Diego Contreras and cinematographer Guillermo Garza. It also brought onstage director Sean Baker, who had a breakout in 2017 with Oscar nominee The Florida Project and shot his earlier feature, Tangerine, entirely on an iPhone.
Baker touted the imminent launch of an updated version of Filmic Pro, which is designed to offer filmmakers a range of options when using devices like the iPhone.
“I’m always excited when I see new evolutions in the craft,” Baker said, adding that the new tools’ main contribution will be “reducing the number of takes and giving me more options in post.”
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The phone features three cameras – wide, telephoto and ultra-wide. It shoots video in 4K in 60 frames per second and enables multiple shots to be generated from a single vantage point. The design of the back of the phone, with its distinctive three lenses, elicited howls in some corners of social media. “Steve Jobs” became a trending topic on Twitter because of some Apple fans’ conviction that the late Apple maestro would abhor the new look.
Steven Soderbergh is among the other established filmmakers who have been drawn to iPhone filmmaking, capturing features such as this year’s Netflix feature High-Flying Bird entirely on the device.
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