Hi all. I don't know if anyone else has examined the autofocus lense of the 3GS, but I have just done so... and the lense is indeed motorized!. If you set the camera to focus on your fingertip and then hold the camera corner of the 3GS at a slight angle to a light source, so that the hole in the casing for the camera, casts a slight shadow on the lense mount, and then move your finger back and forth, you will SEE the lense mount MOVING inside the 3GS!.
I was not THAT surprised, but it sure is nice to know Apple have done this properly with a voice coil & magnet mechanism (probably?) and not used some pixel-shuffling, grain inducing digital quasi-autofocus trickery.
Just hadn't seen many people mention this as yet; I'm going to TRY and make a video of it, using... yep, the 3GS (in a mirror!). In the meantime, peruse my rather rushed efforts at macro photos:
I was not THAT surprised, but it sure is nice to know Apple have done this properly with a voice coil & magnet mechanism (probably?) and not used some pixel-shuffling, grain inducing digital quasi-autofocus trickery.
Just hadn't seen many people mention this as yet; I'm going to TRY and make a video of it, using... yep, the 3GS (in a mirror!). In the meantime, peruse my rather rushed efforts at macro photos: