Why Using An Old iPhone Camera As An Action Camera Is A Bad Idea

I had some free time, so I tried an experiment. How would my old iPhone camera work as an action camera? The video footage from its 4K camera looks so much better than footage from my 4K action cameras, so why wouldn't it work?

I mounted my old iPhone 7 to my Miata using my magnet camera mount with a phone attachment. Then I proceeded to take a slow and easy drive around the block, and then examine the footage after. Unfortunately, this iPhone 7 camera doesn't have any kind of a built in stabilizer, whether mechanical or digital. Thus the footage was subpar. It resulted in video footage that displayed plenty of "jello effect" in it. At the end of this video, I have a portion of the clip that was ran thru CapCut's stabilization feature, to see if it would help.

So, all in all, it's not a good idea to use an older cell phone camera for an action camera, unless it does have built in stabilization.

Maybe in the future I will try and do this same experiment, but with a cell phone with 4K and stabilization. Stay tuned....

Magnet Mount: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GKM5DF4?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

This video footage was captured using my old iPhone 7 camera, on June 19th, 2024, and edited using Capcut 3.8.0.

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