{"id":49934,"date":"2026-11-08T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/i-saw-honors-magic-9-pro-max-go-head-to-head-with-an-arri-cinema-camera-heres-what-surprised-me\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T06:34:48","slug":"i-saw-honors-magic-9-pro-max-go-head-to-head-with-an-arri-cinema-camera-heres-what-surprised-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/i-saw-honors-magic-9-pro-max-go-head-to-head-with-an-arri-cinema-camera-heres-what-surprised-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw HONOR\u2019s Magic 9 Pro Max go head-to-head with an ARRI cinema camera. Here\u2019s what surprised me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones have been trying to replace everything from point-and-shoot cameras to gaming consoles for years. Now, HONOR wants to take things a step further by bringing a little Hollywood filmmaking magic to its latest flagship. And it\u2019s not doing that alone. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/phones\/honor-shows-off-magic-9-pro-max-flagship-with-arri-imaging-in-striking-moss-green\/\" rel>HONOR Magic 9 Pro Max<\/a> touts a cinematic imaging partnership with ARRI, the legendary German camera manufacturer whose equipment has been used in countless film and television productions.<\/p>\n<p>    Varun Mirchandani \/ Digital Trends    <\/p>\n<p>I got to experience this partnership firsthand during a trip to Los Angeles, where HONOR arranged a workshop at ARRI\u2019s studio. There were professional cinema cameras, carefully controlled lighting setups, and, rather unusually, a smartphone being put through its paces alongside the big guns. Having spent time shooting with the Magic 9 Pro Max afterward, including during a trip to Yosemite National Park, I have to say that this is one smartphone-camera collaboration worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>    A smartphone goes toe-to-toe with an ARRI cinema camera    <\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the LA workshop was a pair of carefully designed shooting environments. One focused on a person in a controlled lighting setup, while the other recreated a more cinematic living-room scene,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/phones\/honor-magic-9-pro-max-arri-cinema-camera-first-impressions\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones have been trying to replace everything from point-and-shoot cameras to gaming consoles for years. Now, HONOR wants to take things a step further by bringing a little Hollywood filmmaking magic to its latest flagship. And it\u2019s not doing that alone. The HONOR Magic 9 Pro Max touts a cinematic imaging partnership with ARRI, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1399],"tags":[6955,6190,6956,36,1401],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-techplus","tag-arri","tag-honor","tag-honor-magic-9-pro-max","tag-mixtv","tag-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}