BURBANK, Nov. 5 -- Honor is selling phone filmmakers a route into ARRI's color workflow, not a cinema camera that happens to make calls. A new account of the companies' studio demonstration shows why that difference matters: the Magic9 Pro Max can produce an appealing graded image without establishing that it captures the same information as a professional camera.

In a November 5 report, technology writer Ben Sin described shooting with the phone at ARRI's Burbank offices, where the companies had arranged lighting and models for visiting media. He found the results particularly convincing with the longer camera framing after applying an ARRI Alexa lookup table to footage recorded in LogC3.

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