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First Photos from Apple iPhone?
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are you serious? This person deserves exactly what he gets. Im sure this guy has signed more than one or two NDA's that probably stated doing something like this was against his own interests, and on top of that he took the pictures in public with an unreleased product AND posted them on a PUBLIC image hosting server. I hope these pics are not legit or else I would be concerned about the iphone considering this is a guy working on it
doh... i thought the orientation feature was something new.
Found this by a quick google...
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html
Found this by a quick google...
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html
This answers your question. Yes, it does photos well. We didn't know that before, now we do.
To everyone else saying "so what?" well, learning something you didn't know before is the definition of news. I don't know what else to say to you.
You put a question in your post...this news answered it.
What else is there to "get?"
Assuming it's true, I'm very impressed with the quality considering it's a phone. This really may be the digital swiss army knife I've been waiting for. It sure would be nice to not have to bring my camera around with me except for times when I know I'll want the higher quality pics (like if I went hiking in the mountains or something).
Resolution is 1600*1200, which makes for 2mp. Noise levels weren't bad at all. I could see myself getting this image on paper, but we'll have to wait till we see more pictures if all the photos stand out like this..
Macrumors implementation of big piccies is kind of bothersome, because you have to turn off pithhelmet and reload the main page before clicking the thumbnails will work.
Macrumors implementation of big piccies is kind of bothersome, because you have to turn off pithhelmet and reload the main page before clicking the thumbnails will work.
And yet worth the time to post
This is great news, IF true, compared to the awful phone pics my friends send me from other recent thin phones.
I often carry my camera in my pocket just in case... and usually my iPod (mainly for contacts/calendar) as well. It seems increasingly likely that an iPhone can replace both devices--and it's thinner than either one. (My iPod's a 60GB 4G.)
If these are indeed authentic then I will be even more excited to get an iPhone. The quality for a phone camera is excellent. It's really nice to be able to get a decent quality photo from device you are always carrying. Sweet!!
Hehe... ay thaut ay waz goin grazy... i went to open it in preview... i was up in the menu looking for rotate when i noticed the picture was already the right way up, heh, so i closed it, deleted it, emptied trash, re-downloaded it... to find the same result. Cool hehe.
I wonder how long preview.app has had orientation support?
What's with his freakishly large forearm muscles? Or are those tumors?
If it's him, maybe he's working on some of the sounds for the iPhone.
Full EXIF tags here:
Camera make : Apple
Camera model : iPhone
Date/Time : 2007:04:21 10:23:45
Resolution : 1600 x 1200
Orientation : rotate 90
Aperture : f/2.8
f/2.8 is a nice low-light lens for a camera phone without flash. I think that's new info (for whomever is maintaining the specs page).
Camera make : Apple
Camera model : iPhone
Date/Time : 2007:04:21 10:23:45
Resolution : 1600 x 1200
Orientation : rotate 90
Aperture : f/2.8
f/2.8 is a nice low-light lens for a camera phone without flash. I think that's new info (for whomever is maintaining the specs page).
Questions
Assuming the photos are legit...
Normally I would agree. In this case, though, what I think happened here is that they were testing the iPhone's integration with Flickr and forgot to make the photos private. We don't always know every feature of every service.
I've never used Flickr, but what if they were testing a widget that posts your photos there? It worked didn't it?
What's the default setting for photos posted to Flickr, public or private?
Does anyone know when the photos were taken vs when they were "found?"
If it was an accident, I don't think termination is in order. Maybe it'll point out a deficiency in the widget.
are you serious? This person deserves exactly what he gets. Im sure this guy has signed more than one or two NDA's that probably stated doing something like this was against his own interests, and on top of that he took the pictures in public with an unreleased product AND posted them on a PUBLIC image hosting server. I hope these pics are not legit or else I would be concerned about the iphone considering this is a guy working on it
Assuming the photos are legit...
Normally I would agree. In this case, though, what I think happened here is that they were testing the iPhone's integration with Flickr and forgot to make the photos private. We don't always know every feature of every service.
I've never used Flickr, but what if they were testing a widget that posts your photos there? It worked didn't it?
What's the default setting for photos posted to Flickr, public or private?
Does anyone know when the photos were taken vs when they were "found?"
If it was an accident, I don't think termination is in order. Maybe it'll point out a deficiency in the widget.
Cool--thanks.
And I don't think this slip is likely to make Apple all THAT mad. We already knew it had a 1600x1200 camera. The product has already been announced, including megapixels.
I wonder if the smaller image might be a still exported from a video? (Wishful thinking. I LOVE my current cam's crappy video ability, compared to having no video cam on hand at all. If iPhone can take even 15fps 320x240 I'll find uses for it.)
EXIF information can easily be modified/faked... but the fact that an Apple Product Mananger posted it makes it far less likely to be fake.
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Oh lord. That person at Apple is SOOO fired on Monday (if these are legit). Although there really is no way of knowing, since exif info can be changed pretty easily.
But, if he/she is a program manager at Apple, then its quite possible.
But, if he/she is a program manager at Apple, then its quite possible.
You know, a few people have said this, but in all seriousness; why would someone posting some photos taken from an iPhone to their Flickr account warrant firing? There isn't anything secret in the photos that wouldn't already be known (the product is called.... iPhone! It takes 2MP photos! SHOCKER!).
It would be one thing if someone posted a bunch of pictures OF the iPhone, but this hardly seems like it would warrant being fired over. It basically shows that this person is actually using the iPhone; if they didn't want people out using them, they probably wouldn't have them out.
The only think i could see that would warrant firing would be if this person wasn't supposed to be using their iPhone in public or something. But I have a hard time believing that someone just snuck it out without permission, and then used it to take photos and upload them to their Flickr account if there was going to be a problem with doing that.
Fake
These are fake.
First of all why would he/she risk being fired by taking pictures in public with a product that should not even be out of the labs?
Just being seen with it would lead them to being fired unless they were some big shot executive or journalist? Neither would do this type of a stunt.
Secondly what purpose would it serve to post them on the web, other than show them to someone and furthering the risk of being fired?
This smells like a fake story from some PR firm to generate more buzz about the iPhone.
These are fake.
First of all why would he/she risk being fired by taking pictures in public with a product that should not even be out of the labs?
Just being seen with it would lead them to being fired unless they were some big shot executive or journalist? Neither would do this type of a stunt.
Secondly what purpose would it serve to post them on the web, other than show them to someone and furthering the risk of being fired?
This smells like a fake story from some PR firm to generate more buzz about the iPhone.
Ok, 2.8 is pretty fast. The focal length is 14mm, and the perspective looks to be about "normal," so we (DSLR owners) should be able to think of the iPhone's lens as an f/2.8 31mm macro. This assumes that a zoom lens is not used. I'd certainly rather have a 50mm equivalent prime than one of the superzoom 28-300 currently popular on P&S cameras.
Here are the "facts" so to speak.
- Images appeared on Flickr with "iPhone" listed in EXIF data
- Flickr account owned by someone identified as an Apple Product Mananger
- Photos deleted shortly after their discovery
all of that together makes it pretty convincing. It's not like the photos were tagged as "iphone" photos... the EXIF information is something that most people don't think about when they decide to publish a photo on the internet or not. So it may have just been mixed in with the other photos, and the person decided to publish it on flickr.
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