IF the app truly lets you have full manual control of the camera, which it claims to do, then yes, it could work. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the camera on the iphone rivals low end DLSRs, as there are issues with sensor size, etc. that I won't get into. But the app seems to effectively use the camera on your phone the same way an animation program would use a web cam, so since you have the phone already, and can use another phone to remotely trigger the camera (this is important, you never want to touch you camera while filming), I think this seems like a perfectly reasonable option for getting into the hobby.

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The iPhone 4S was unveiled in 2011, and ever since, Apple has included an iteration of that 8 megapixel sensor in each consecutive model of their phone. The iPhone 6's camera equals or outdoes its seemingly superiorly specced rival phones, basically because Apple has heavily refined their camera (making pixels larger, increasing the aperture, more light etc etc). Basically, its an exceptional camera for a phone, and judging it on it megapixels alone is wrong.

That said, perhaps due to Apple's love-affair with thinness, you lack optical zoom. Instead the iPhone 6 sports digital zoom, which deteriorates the quality of your image the more you enlarge. So that's a massive negative. Also, the price of an unlocked iPhone with decent storage is incredibly high (for poor Australian me, the 64GB iPhone 6 hovers around AU$999), so unless you want to be roped into a plan, you might as well seriously look at some DSLRs.

That app you found says in its description that it has:

Essentially everything you need for brickfilming. But frankly, I say just test out your iPhone 5 with the app, and if you are getting a 6, it should work too, but you'll be making some sacrifices (e.g. zoom). I will stress this though, don't just go out and get an iPhone 6 specifically for brickfilming because you definitely can get a very good DSLR for a lower price.

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Intriguing. I imagine it could be a little hard to get shallow DOF, which just tends to look nicer, on wider shots with such a tiny sensor, but that's less of a problem in macro focus for LEGO movies. If you can zoom to various focal lengths, that would resolve the issue most phone cameras have of being at a fixed and unreasonably wide focal length.

Is it really a bump if the thread was already on top of the pile? Seems unnecessary. This query seemed to have been resolved so tell us what more it is you want to know.