You can’t mount the cinema camera on the Formula One Race Car. These ferry vehicles are built for precise sunglasses, and from the driver’s point of view, it is not as easy to capture the racing footage as it is to slap a gopro and call it one day. Apple faced Apple after Joseph Kosansky and future director and cinemographer Clavio Maranda. F1 Apple Original, wanted to use the real footage of POV racing in the film.
If you have recently seen the Formula One Race, you may have seen clips that show an angle from the back of the cockpit, with the driver’s helmet in the frame or with the side. Caught by cameras embedded in the vehicle, the resulting footage is designed for broadcasting using specific colorful spaces and codes. To meet the rest of the form of iT to change it F1 The film will be very difficult to be viable. Instead, Apple’s engineering team replaced the camera with iPhone parts instead of the broadcast module.
Custom Camera
Photo: Julian Sarkato
Photo: Julian Sarkato
The module looks nothing like an iPhone. It deliberately resembles the broadcast camera module, and Apple also had to get weights so that its version does not change the car’s sunglasses. Inside, however, is completely different. (Apple peeped us along with the F -One car during the WWDC last week.)
There is an iPhone camera sensor in the heart that has been strengthened by A-Series chip. Apple did not specify the exact sensor or chip set, but it was used for a few cars in real F1 races in the season of 2023 and 2024, so it is an opportunity that the iPhone 15 Pro had the same A17 Pro and 48 megapixel primary camera. It also had an iPhone battery and neutral density filter over the camera to reduce the light entering the lens, which gives film editors more control over the exposure.
No one expects the iPhone camera to perform flawlessly in incredible speed or in extreme situations, so the engineering team had to consider this factor. They tested the camera module to ensure that it can withstand extreme trauma, vibration and heat.
Julian Sarkato
The module was run iOS but it had a custom firm for the camera. The videos were caught in the log format with Apple’s unlimited video codec, which provides footage that looks flat but gives editors more granular control over color grade and combines visuals with the rest of the film. This custom firmware has inevitably led to two new features in the iPhone 15 Pro: Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) Ring Work Flu login encoding and support.
Since there is no radio in the module, a custom iPad app was the only way that could make the film bee changes to the camera. Once attached through the USB-C, they can adjust things like frame rate, increased exposure, shutter angle, and white balance. This is where they target the record to start or stop recording. Footage caught with module is sprayed in it F1 movie.
