The iPhone 17 Pro has already excited me with its upgraded telephoto zoom and the new addition of ProRes raw video recording. It could be a superb tool for capturing stunning video, and Blackmagic's new ProDock could make it useful on professional cinema productions.
Costing $295 (£225) from the Apple store , the dock connects to the iPhone 17 Pro over USB C, but features a variety of inputs to expand the phone further for pro video use. There are two USB ports for recording footage directly to external SSD drives -- crucial if you're shooting ProRes raw video which will generate vast file sizes -- along with inputs for external audio recording and headphone inputs for monitoring that audio.
There's also a handy HDMI output, allowing you to hook the iPhone up to a much bigger ext