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First Photos from Apple iPhone?

CoreWeb said:
I agree that this is not a big deal (for different reasons: I just don't care about the fact that a photo taken by the iPhone was posted online - the iPhone's photo quality seems alright).

However: it seems that in every rumor thread, someone says "Move along people". This annoys the heck out of me. Why is it your place to tell me or anyone else what to do? To me, it seems rather rude to do so.
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Many people seek attention, even when anonymous. Strange but true. Rudeness and putting people down are popular ways to get said attention.
 
the photos look pretty standard to me.Dont know what the hype is about seeing as most new normal phones have 2mp cameras.unless you have one of the nokia/samsung phones with a 5mp camera:/
 
A rhetorical question???

Leareth said:
I still dont get what the hype is all about?
the iphone is neat ------ We know it exists, we know roughly what it can do.

Question is can it do well?
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Being from Apple, it is hardly likely to be much more useful than a shoe horn. It is too light to be a door stop. It ought to leak enough EMF to take planes off-course and possibly ignite a petrol (gas) dispenser or two. Those would be "good" days.
 
They look better than most phones I've seen. People complain that it's not high enough resolution, but I think that Apple realizes something that the fellows putting 5 gigapixel cameras in phones do not, and that is that people are usually sending, and receiving these on phones, so the file size needs to be right, and the resolution doesn't have to be astonishing. Second, no one is using their phone to take pictures of their kid's graduation.
 
rjwill246 said:
Being from Apple, it is hardly likely to be much more useful than a shoe horn. It is too light to be a door stop. It ought to leak enough EMF to take planes off-course and possibly ignite a petrol (gas) dispenser or two. Those would be "good" days.
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Actually its much more than all of that. Its a mouse trap, a bottle opener, condiment dispenser, mace, a portable shower, a handgernade -> see http://youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM
 
SPUY767 said:
They look better than most phones I've seen. People complain that it's not high enough resolution, but I think that Apple realizes something that the fellows putting 5 gigapixel cameras in phones do not, and that is that people are usually sending, and receiving these on phones, so the file size needs to be right, and the resolution doesn't have to be astonishing. Second, no one is using their phone to take pictures of their kid's graduation.
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I gotta admit - I was a nay sayer of the pic quality when the specs first came out - but you got it right. Sending huge files from and to phones is bad. Also - as another poster pointed out- if I want great pics, I will bring my camera, but if I just want average pics - the iPhone will be fine.
Digital Swiss Army knife....
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Next we'll have a front page rumour about a sighting of the iPhone protective case!

( you know, the ones that are completely useless and that you'd never use - and have to buy a 3rd party case that will be more practical!)
 
SPUY767 said:
They look better than most phones I've seen. People complain that it's not high enough resolution, but I think that Apple realizes something that the fellows putting 5 gigapixel cameras in phones do not, and that is that people are usually sending, and receiving these on phones, so the file size needs to be right, and the resolution doesn't have to be astonishing. Second, no one is using their phone to take pictures of their kid's graduation.
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True, but the point is I don't carry my digital camera everywhere with me but I do my phone and the 5 megapixels gives me the possibility of taking goodish pictures. (I say goodish because, to be honest, they aren't as good as a normal camera with the same megapixels.) The camera takes highest res pics but before mailing it asks what size I want to send (as in picture below).

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Leareth said:
I still dont get what the hype is all about?
the iphone is neat but not like it is going to change the world the second it comes out.
We know it exists, we know roughly what it can do.
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Me neither. Wow, a photo from the iPhone. And? It's still going to be quite average (and likely the same 2 MP sensor used in other camera phones), and it isn't really in the 3.2 MP league yet, so they're just showing us camera-phone photos that you could have got from a camera-phone 2 years ago.
 
Small White Car said:
Interesting.

Both Preview, Photoshop CS1, and iPhoto do this. The web browsers I tried don't.

Since CS1 is doing it than this feature is either something that's been out there for a few years now or you and I are just crazy.

Does anyone know?
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Errrrr..... what camera doesn't do this? And no, no web browser would display it any other way than natively.
 
It's too bad the iPhone resolution isn't a widescreen format. I'd love it if I could get 1920x1080 on this thing. It would work perfectly on my :apple:TV. :D
 
SPUY767 said:
They look better than most phones I've seen. People complain that it's not high enough resolution, but I think that Apple realizes something that the fellows putting 5 gigapixel cameras in phones do not, and that is that people are usually sending, and receiving these on phones, so the file size needs to be right, and the resolution doesn't have to be astonishing. Second, no one is using their phone to take pictures of their kid's graduation.
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I don't buy that for one second, sorry.

I have a SonyErricson K800i, out for over a year, that takes pics at 3.2MP with a proper zenon flash. I can send the pictures I take at 3.2MP res to other phones, and the comparatively limited software will downscale the pic automatically, or offer me the option, before I send the message.

So your argument is just void, since uncomplicated phones can do the simple things which the iPhone should take in it's stride. The reason for leaving out at least a 3.2mp camera is beyond me, and regardless if some individuals will use it or not - I enjoy the fact I can take out one piece of hardware to take very good shots, that will beat the iPhone, and on a whim.

None of the arguments presented so far, justify using a weaker lens than what can be used.
 
One of the key elements in the K800i's picture quality (and some other high-end phones) is the lens, rahter than the CCD. A 2mp with a good lens will give better images than a 3mp with a useless lens.

Most good 'western' phones [excluding some odd high end stuff - mostly SE Asia only) top out at 2mp, especially those the iPhone will be competing against. Providing Apple use a good lens, and uses good processing (some phone are dreadfull) 2mp is fine.

The only exception is the Nokia N95, which is 5mp, but is useless. - Really neads a touch-screen, is horribbly unstable[worse than Windows!) and doesn't work well - needs to be Applie-fied.
 
bigandtasty said:
Dude looks like a lady!
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This is by far and way the thread that has made me laugh the most in quite some time. I too thought it was a woman.

Then we get the "these pictures are great for a phone" posts, when these pictures are clearly bad. Most of that has to do with composition, overexposure, etc. But still these pictures can tell you nothing about how good the camera is.

Next we get the "wow! orientation information is stored" people. While it is cool that orientation information is stored, I expected nothing less from a phone that changes its entire visual presentation when you turn it sideways. That is a much more difficult problem to solve than storing the orientation information in pictures taken by its camera.

I get that everyone wants this phone to be a success, as do I, as I really want to see its technology seep down into the iPod line (I don't need the phone and 2yr commitment to AT&T). But this is really too much.

I have to stop reading, as people in neighboring cubes are starting to wonder...
 
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