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iPhone 3G S - Camera quality - Samples?!?!

I'm pretty amazed at the lack of 'hands on' by the big sites to be honest. I'm even more amazed that a few pics haven't somehow found their way onto flickr!
 
lol

you have no idea how good Apples lawyers are! you will see very little leaked before Apple gives the ok. Which I will just throw a random date out there and say the 19th. So wait 4 days I plan to take some pics with mine I will Video and pics will be straight from the camera I won't do any computer editing. might take a run too the zoo just for that.
 
siksik6 said:
Still can't believe not ONE single picture taken with a 3gs is out there in the wild. the device is out on general release in LESS THAN FOUR DAYS!

How on earth do Apple manage it.

reviewers should at least have them, so Engadget/macRumors can do a full review.

Buyers should at least be able to have confidence from a 3rd party review before spending so much cash.
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What's Apple's motivation for handing out devices for review before they're released? Apple could sell a turd in a white box and most people wouldn't even ask to smell it first.
 
My 2G lens is all messed up too. Same as the OP pic. Looking a coating has worn off and all pics look cloudy.

Isn't there a product to protect the lens? There are all kinds of skins out there, but nothing for the lens?
 
paulisme said:
What's Apple's motivation for handing out devices for review before they're released? Apple could sell a turd in a white box and most people wouldn't even ask to smell it first.
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I don't think that is fair. Apple has consistently made a point of allowing cellphone buyers to try before they buy. You go into an Apple store (and in the UK into O2 and Carphone) and actually play with working phones - not plastic dummies. You can even make calls.

Can't think of any other manufacturer who has done this.

C.
 
I am calling BS on that macro lens photo on Apple's site. There is no way that photo was taken on an iphone. Unless its not a real flower and its just a huge fabric flower with large rain drops on it.
 
I wouldn't expect the quality to be that much different then the previous model. Camera phone cameras are crappy to begin with so all that is happening is it will be slightly less crappy.
 
I'm interested in the new sequence feature that enables several consecutive frames to be captured, apparently at full resolution. I wonder what the speed is.

I don't have any pretenses that the image quality will match dedicated digital cameras but like the OP stated I am hopeful that it will be useful for occasional snapshots where a digital camera isn't available.
 
randfee2 said:
that doesn't mean that they've not been taken by an iPhone... I just checked them as well... no metadata whatsoever. This only proofs, that they've been edited by PS or something!


Honestly, what phone has a camera with a zoom lens?!?! A phone cam is for occasional shots, its 2 orders below a point and shoot, a zoom lens would be totally exaggerated..... and I hope you know that digital zoom is no zoom at all, its just BS!
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That proves nothing. You can edit something with photoshop and easily keep the metadata. All it proves is that Apple doesn't want to release an image with metadata and they removed it.
 
well... I bet my ass no image will ever see the apple.com website without having been opened in Photoshop.... EVER!

I just can't believe that nobody downloaded the gizmodo video for instance.... damn... I really want to see if the cam is sharp for once. Image quality of course is going to be int he range of all camera phones, whereas being even close to Sony phones would be awesome... doubt it though.

That's why we all want/need samples!
 
randfee2 said:
well... I bet my ass no image will ever see the apple.com website without having been opened in Photoshop.... EVER!

I just can't believe that nobody downloaded the gizmodo video for instance.... damn... I really want to see if the cam is sharp for once. Image quality of course is going to be int he range of all camera phones, whereas being even close to Sony phones would be awesome... doubt it though.

That's why we all want/need samples!
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The Gizmodo video wouldn't have been a good example - it was compressed to be uploaded over 3G.
 
yeah, the gizmodo video was uploaded from the phone onto youtube...and it looked like a video uploaded from a phone onto youtube...
 
Carniphage said:
I don't think that is fair. Apple has consistently made a point of allowing cellphone buyers to try before they buy. You go into an Apple store (and in the UK into O2 and Carphone) and actually play with working phones - not plastic dummies. You can even make calls.

Can't think of any other manufacturer who has done this.

C.
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They're not that special in this. Every 3 mobile store I've ever been in has working models on display for you to play with and if you express and interest in a phone in Carphone Warehouse they'll bring you out a working model. All the mobiles on show in PC World are also working models. Those are the only stores I have experience with, but they do show that Apple aren't unique in this.
 
instaxgirl said:
They're not that special in this. Every 3 mobile store I've ever been in has working models on display for you to play with and if you express and interest in a phone in Carphone Warehouse they'll bring you out a working model. All the mobiles on show in PC World are also working models. Those are the only stores I have experience with, but they do show that Apple aren't unique in this.
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Yea.. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint stores all have working models to play with and make real calls.

Nothing fascinating or something that Apple does there...
 
Carniphage said:
I don't think that is fair. Apple has consistently made a point of allowing cellphone buyers to try before they buy. You go into an Apple store (and in the UK into O2 and Carphone) and actually play with working phones - not plastic dummies. You can even make calls.

Can't think of any other manufacturer who has done this.

C.
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I'm talking about Apple not sending out pre-production hardware to the media before the official release. They don't need to because they don't need the press; their marketing is the best in the world. Just look how many people have ordered the iPhone 3G S sight-unseen.
 
paulisme said:
I'm talking about Apple not sending out pre-production hardware to the media before the official release. They don't need to because they don't need the press; their marketing is the best in the world. Just look how many people have ordered the iPhone 3G S sight-unseen.
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They DID! Walt Mossberg has one; in fact others have received preview models. Apple will not allow anyone to post a review until Apple decides it's time.

Whenever Apple has authorized the release of these reviews you will see several pop up and each one will claim they've had them for 1-2 weeks.
 
Revelation78 said:
They DID! Walt Mossberg has one; in fact others have received preview models. Apple will not allow anyone to post a review until Apple decides it's time.

Whenever Apple has authorized the release of these reviews you will see several pop up and each one will claim they've had them for 1-2 weeks.
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Same difference. What's the point of handing out pre-production hardware when the recipients have to keep mum?
 
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