411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman

Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.

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Links:

• Tyler Stalman on YouTube:
• iPhone 16: A Photographer's Review (youtube.com/watch?v=be0ijSY7Kg0).

• What's on his iPhone 16 (youtube.com/watch?v=4TpfJuZ7YTY).

• Tyler’s recommended Photographic Styles recipe (threads.net/@stalman/post/DAh3cGwp5-2):
• Undertone: Amber

• Tone: -50 to -60

• Color: 20

• Palette: 100

• JPEG XL (jpeg.org/jpegxl).

• Steven Soderbergh has shot two feature films on iPhones:
• Unsane (themoviedb.org/movie/467660-unsane) -- shot on iPhone 7 in 2018 (daringfireball.net/linked/2018/02/22/unsane).

• High Flying Bird (themoviedb.org/movie/510498-high-flying-bird) -- shot on iPhone 8 in 2019 (theringer.com/movies/2019/2/7/18214924/steven-…).

• Robert Rodriguez:
• El Mariachi (themoviedb.org/movie/9367-el-mariachi) — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992.

• Desperado (themoviedb.org/movie/8068-desperado) — his big-budget 1995 sequel, starring Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek.

• Rebel Without a Crew (amzn.to/4eSWEZE) — Rodriguez’s book on the making of El Mariachi.

• Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last (ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/4/20/the-best…)”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.