Sony Xperia IV, and will the smartphones ever get S-log 3, and lut support etc...

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Tetewsky

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So my smartphone (pretty featureless one by today's photo and video standards) is dying and it did get me thinking about getting a phone that could shoot good b-roll for a lot of my videography work. After googling best phone for video work (obviously the iphone came up), I learned of Sony's phone series.

The Xperia IV takes quite good video for a phone. Any chance there'll be something that comes along that shoots in a log format, with expandable SD slots, typical of a DSLR. Also is there anything on the horizon with the built in lenses that has aperture control or an easy ND solution for stopping down so one isn't bound to shutter for exposure?

Thanks, and sorry if these are kinda silly questions as, obviously, the main use of a phone should be its phone purposes.
 
Logs will likely happen sooner rather than later, especially depending on what Apple does with ProRes RAW (meaning Sony would have to follow suit).

Don't see expandable SD slots ever coming back for good and envision only internal memory (and eventually straight to the clouds), but you never know.

Lenses with a wide aperture range...I don't know but it was something RED was looking into [with modules] before they dropped their phone project.

Sony would be a great fit to use their electronic variable ND technology in their phones if they ever did offer better glass. People have been using applications like FiLMiC Pro and others for probably over a decade by now, but obviously those will not change fixed hardware apertures.
 
Thanks for the reply- can't seem to find whether or not there is gain control/if the phone has 2 native isos etc...
 
That phone is powered by so much AI and its friends that you'd never really know what's going on even if they said it did.

With that said, don't think it matters much right now...chips are still the sizes of fingernails and don't have properly optimized sensors for best results [for motion pictures].
 
Amazing how many fundamental limitations and missing features there are when it comes to phone photography. I don't pay much attention to their developments and I had sort of assumed that everything the OP is requesting had already been implemented
 
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