We will now have to start worrying about focusing issues and what not, making sure a group is in focus etc. which will be more of a hassle than anything else for your average person, or older people for example.
The author of this news story could definitely have used some of the manual features associated with a good camera. Instead, the camera guessed, it guessed wrong, and the wrong things are in focus, and the reporter, and his newspaper has to live with it.
(The rancher aksing the question is of primary importance, the lecturer is of secondary importance, the fact that there's a stove in the adjoining room is of very little importance, but guess what the camera prioritized? Additionally, the skin tones are more than a little off. I tend to photograph in raw, and correct the color in post production, but I hear that Reuters frowns on such tricks these days.)
My DLSR allows me to use full auto mode if I choose to do so-- it's right there, in green, on the exposure mode dial. It also allows me to override nearly every recommendation, from how the meter measures light, to how the autofocus tracks subjects, to what sort of aperture to use.
A better camera for the iPhone would be one that allows the user to override the the iPhone's poor choices.
