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First Photos from Apple iPhone?
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Zoom lens and flash would be great to have! But your Sharp 903 is well over an inch thick! Thicker than my non-phone camera, in fact. That's not a trade I'd be willing to make. Nor would I generally want to spend battery life on zoom motors and camera flash.
If I want the BEST photos possible in all conditions, I'll want something bulkier than an iPhone--like your phone or the camera I already have. I'm sure your phone is great. But more often, I just want very GOOD pictures, and maximum portability. At less than 1/2" thick, iPhone appears to deliver that.
An iPhone doesn't have to be the ultimate camera any more than it has to be the ultimate personal weather station. The camera (and weather widget) are simply very useful features to include.
Just found this on that flickr account that the original pics came from.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/97266861/
Notice the PowerMacs have blocked ports and non standard graphics cards.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/97266861/
Notice the PowerMacs have blocked ports and non standard graphics cards.
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The photos aren't anything special, guys.
1. Low noise? Who knows how much light there was when the photo was taken. There could've been a large amount of light and very little made it into the lens in the first picture. There are obviously lights in the background, but the kitchen area looks so dark as to be suicidal.
2. The second photo has some horrible purple fringing. Ok for a picture you're going to show your friends on your phone, not ok for printing out and putting into a frame.
3. In both pics the blue levels seem to be way high. Also, the classic phone camera-focus can be seen clearly in the high res (you're 2 feet from the guy's face and he's using 40% of the image, but facial features are blurry to jpeg'ed out).
What does this prove? Apple went pretty standard on the camera part.
1. Low noise? Who knows how much light there was when the photo was taken. There could've been a large amount of light and very little made it into the lens in the first picture. There are obviously lights in the background, but the kitchen area looks so dark as to be suicidal.
2. The second photo has some horrible purple fringing. Ok for a picture you're going to show your friends on your phone, not ok for printing out and putting into a frame.
3. In both pics the blue levels seem to be way high. Also, the classic phone camera-focus can be seen clearly in the high res (you're 2 feet from the guy's face and he's using 40% of the image, but facial features are blurry to jpeg'ed out).
What does this prove? Apple went pretty standard on the camera part.
Why do the colors look so terribly wrong? So the photo itself is ok... but the white balance seems to be crap. Oh great. So it's useless. Sure you can fix it in Photoshop, but when it's as wrong as with that photo? I doubt the iPhone can save RAW...
And I'd expect Sonys newest K series phones to be better. They have flash too, and they shouldn't be too big.
I think if this guy is going to be fired, than because of the bad quality of the photos.
And I'd expect Sonys newest K series phones to be better. They have flash too, and they shouldn't be too big.
I think if this guy is going to be fired, than because of the bad quality of the photos.
You have valid points, but the 903SH is just over an inch thick at it's thickest point and takes 3.2MP photos.
Main thing is, it's 18 months old...
I use it because it's nice to have a flip-phone (I am one of the only people in the UK to prefer them), it takes amazing photos (saving me carrying a DSLR around - unless I want to be really arty/take the best shots) and it's 3G so I get great data speeds for email when I am out and about.
I am fond of many apple products, don't get me wrong! I am just thinking that I won't get one until it gets better. Having said that, it's not even released here until 2008! So who cares!
there was this similiar product called 'i' something that had the same fate i believe...
You have valid points, but the 903SH is just over an inch thick at it's thickest point and takes 3.2MP photos.
Main thing is, it's 18 months old...
I use it because it's nice to have a flip-phone (I am one of the only people in the UK to prefer them), it takes amazing photos (saving me carrying a DSLR around - unless I want to be really arty/take the best shots) and it's 3G so I get great data speeds for email when I am out and about.
I am fond of many apple products, don't get me wrong! I am just thinking that I won't get one until it gets better. Having said that, it's not even released here until 2008! So who cares!
Where did you get 2008 from? Its consistently being talked as Q4 07 for Europe, and I keep reading October as the likely launch here.
I won't get it until there's an asian counterpart. You're right Q4 here apparently, but I still will wait to believe it. Leopard and iPhone in the UK at the same time? We always get the last straw... wonder what it will be with this time
I dunno, I am just not getting my hopes up for a release this year!
This phone suits me well anyway...
It just can't be the same phone for Asia... I doubt it will be released in Japan!
Poor dude. First he's going to see these pictures and go, argh, i'm all over teh intarwebs. Then he's going to see all the 'she' comments...
Anyway, how is this newsworthy apart from confirming that the iPhone can take pictures and that the pictures can end up on Flickr. We've all seen the iPhone in that keynote, so it isn't anything secret, and a high-end phone without a camera would be rather odd these days. Yet people think that they'll get sacked for this! There's no trade secret or NDA about the existence of the iPhone nor its camera capabilities...
Anyway, how is this newsworthy apart from confirming that the iPhone can take pictures and that the pictures can end up on Flickr. We've all seen the iPhone in that keynote, so it isn't anything secret, and a high-end phone without a camera would be rather odd these days. Yet people think that they'll get sacked for this! There's no trade secret or NDA about the existence of the iPhone nor its camera capabilities...
I dunno-- looks like a whole kennel in that display case.
Man, those pictures freak me out...
I've simply got to ask how you managed to resolve that much detail? I tried a simple zoom in PS and got nothing but a blur (this is from the full size flickr image btw). Nice work anyhow.
I too am slightly disappointed by the camera performance given other manufacturers' recent advances. With such a small sensor a F/1.4 50mm equivalent lens would have been ideal combined with at least a 3MP sensor and ideally an LED (or better still) xenon flash. Sure the phone comes first but for me, poor quality cameras can really let down the quality overall.
Flickr integration would be really hot (though it's not a first, doesn't the SE K800i already have it?).
I agree with a lot of people that the Gen2 iPhone will be the one but I still want the Gen1 device really badly!
If they are real, I think that this person is getting their BONUS on monday.
Can you say carefully orchestrated leak?
I am interested in the backlit photo being better than the ones my Sony camera takes. Backlighting is the bane of digital cameras.
I REALLY want it to be able to take MOVIES at the full resolution of the sensor. So what if it takes up a lot of space, just transmit it to your MacBook via Wi-Fi.
I like the "inside baseball" images. QT7 celebration, Beer Pong, and custom made CPU's. Kinda neat. Not much meat. Nothing to get worked up over, but fun.
I do think these really are the first iPhone photos in the wild for all the reasons Arn said, plus the associated other personal photos and the subject of a photo having a wiki entry of unbelievable length and complexity.
Rocketman
I REALLY want it to be able to take MOVIES at the full resolution of the sensor. So what if it takes up a lot of space, just transmit it to your MacBook via Wi-Fi.
I like the "inside baseball" images. QT7 celebration, Beer Pong, and custom made CPU's. Kinda neat. Not much meat. Nothing to get worked up over, but fun.
I do think these really are the first iPhone photos in the wild for all the reasons Arn said, plus the associated other personal photos and the subject of a photo having a wiki entry of unbelievable length and complexity.
Rocketman
Seriously though. I'm pretty excited about this. As someone else noted, the pearl (my soon to be former phone come june) takes HORRIBLE pictures. It's not that these are perfect, but it at least shows that that they used decent components in the camera which should partially quell the "I'm never buying this thing cuz it doesn't have a 5 megapixel camera" folks. It's not the megapixels that count so much as the color reproduction and ability to work in different lighting conditions.
It's not earthshattering, but it is something we didn't know anything about previously.
Oh, and I'm inferring the color reproduction based on the guy's incredibly pasty complexion and my assumptions about most people in the computer industry. Just kidding
It's not earthshattering, but it is something we didn't know anything about previously.
Oh, and I'm inferring the color reproduction based on the guy's incredibly pasty complexion and my assumptions about most people in the computer industry. Just kidding
Don't forget the iPhone will have an accelerometer. That way, if you're watching a movie on the iPhone right side up, the movie's right side up. Turn the iPhone and it automatically rotates so its still right side up. Check out www.apple.com/iphone to see what I mean.
Huh... That got me thinking... So, assuming you can take video on the iPhone, could the accelerometer potentially be used to eliminate shaking, somewhat like a steadycam? I'd assume not, but it would be really cool.