A IPhone 12 Pro Max captured the exact moment lightning strikes the main building of One World Trade Center. A scene as impressive as it is frightening. The nine-second clip shows lightning hitting the top of New York’s tallest building in vivid detail.
The iPhone is one of the best smartphones on the market when it comes to photography, and this video proves it. It was captured by photographer Anthony Quintano using the slow motion video functi ons of the device
The iPhone 12, across the range, has sensors capable of capture slow motion videos at 1080p and up to 240 fps, which leaves us with images as impressive as those in this video. Of course, you’ll need a good tripod and wait for the exact moment a storm like this is approaching.
Wow !!! Another love at first sight at One World Trade. #NYC pic.twitter.com/qhVJYyW53p
– Anthony Quintano Photography (@AnthonyQuintano) July 7, 2021
IPhone slow motion shows its full potential
Slow motion debuted alongside the iPhone 5s, and since then it has evolved both in quality and in the number of frames per second it is capable of capturing. However, it has stagnated for several years at the level of these two parameters.
It is possible that in the iPhone 13, let’s see an improvement in this regard, being able to record with this amount of frames per second in 4K, and increase it when we record at other resolutions. Other smartphones on the market are capable of recording up to 960 fps, which is almost four times the images of the iPhone.
There are plenty of new features expected in the iPhone 13, and cameras will be one of them. A recent case leak shows that the camera module will be much bigger than the current one, so we will see significant improvements.
