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iPhone 5 and Updated iPod Touch to Support Panorama Photo Mode?
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Umm, it is not fake. It is available on jailbroken iOS 5 devices. I have used it before.
And you seem to be the first to call it a 'main' feature, so what's your point?
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So another thing "borrowed" from Android?
It's hard to call this "from Android" ('borrowed' or not). The past 2 digital cameras I've had have been able to do this on camera. The newest of those is a model from *before* Android, and the one before that was from back when 5MP was 'top of the line' for point-and-shoots.
It's a nice feature, but it's *hardly* something "from Android".
That would be my point - fragmentation. It always makes me laugh when people talk about Android being "cleaner" than iOS....
Er, I just looked at that picture you posted again, where/what is that?
It's the new options menu when you click the share button in iOS 6. Used to look like:
But in messages it shows links to other applications that can handle the photo, like Camera+, iPrint and File Browser etc
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This is an amazing must have feature! This sealed the deal for me.
Now I will accept the retarded old design and the narrow tall anorectic phone , since it haz the panorama!!!!!!
I bought the galaxy S3 already, but I just hate android... it sucks.. it is nasty and ugly and way to few good apps.
So maybe I shall revisit the 90's and go with a good old fashioned Nokia instead ?
Now I will accept the retarded old design and the narrow tall anorectic phone , since it haz the panorama!!!!!!
I bought the galaxy S3 already, but I just hate android... it sucks.. it is nasty and ugly and way to few good apps.
So maybe I shall revisit the 90's and go with a good old fashioned Nokia instead ?
I can tell you one thing. A good photographer can take a "real" picture with just about *any* camera with even a decent-quality lens and sensor, so long as the lighting is adequate for the purpose. (And even most 'poor' quality camera phones these days fill that requirement.)
A good photographer will tell you that the best camera is the one you have with you when you need it. When I expect to be taking pictures, I take my DSLR with me. When I *don't* expect to, but end up wanting to, I'm glad I've got a camera as nice as the one on my iPhone 4s.
Edit: For the record, I'm not a good photographer by that definition, since I require a camera which also has image stabilization (due to hand-shake issues). But I'm a passable guy-with-a-camera, who manages to produce decent to good photographs fairly regularly now that I have a camera with good image stabilization. (Let me tell you, before IS hit my affordable price range, it was miserable. I'd take 400+ photographs on a good vacation, and feel lucky when I managed to come away with a dozen where the motion blur wasn't *too* bad.) Now that I've got a nice camera, I'm trying to learn how to make use of it properly.
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Well there's that... and the fact that my iPhone camera performs pretty terribly in low light. It also has an awesome Deer in Headlights effect like all direct flashes good for up to 5 feet.
It is hard to take interesting panoramas even with an expensive big camera. Still, fun enough and it is up to us to do something creative with the feature.
Most people are happy enough that their new phone takes better photos than the old one. They tend to look at the subject and not the technical perfection.
Some of us will see a rather soft view of a mountain and random shots of a person. The owner will see the great vacation and thrilling time (or not) that they had with the person in the photo.
Most people are happy enough that their new phone takes better photos than the old one. They tend to look at the subject and not the technical perfection.
Some of us will see a rather soft view of a mountain and random shots of a person. The owner will see the great vacation and thrilling time (or not) that they had with the person in the photo.
A cyclorama stitching feature alone seems...
A cyclorama stitching feature alone seems hardly news worthy and understandably something they Apple would not highlight. A panorama camera feature is without a doubt timely and forthcoming but the question really is how Apple will address it. In the AIP department what I think would be 'revolutionary' is the ability to video a scene where the image data could be used to pan and zoom to size creating the panoramic photo. Photos are a dime a dozen (12M in internet terms) and the ability to triple tap an image and have map info overlay the image would be great, why not add Yelp or for that matter facial recognition with inlined realtime last posts on FB and Twitter to accompany recognized faces. Fanciful daydreaming aside, there's a an incredible amount of space for innovation here.
An interesting and noteworthy topic to add is that Apple was awarded, almost a year ago (although I cannot be accurate of the timeframe) patents pertaining to 3D rending/imaging in both software and hardware solutions. Given their history of patents and the lack of hardware leaks to suggest some implementation it is more than a trifle early but suggestive of what we might see in iOS 7, am I talking about that already?!?
AIWP: Anything is possible
A cyclorama stitching feature alone seems hardly news worthy and understandably something they Apple would not highlight. A panorama camera feature is without a doubt timely and forthcoming but the question really is how Apple will address it. In the AIP department what I think would be 'revolutionary' is the ability to video a scene where the image data could be used to pan and zoom to size creating the panoramic photo. Photos are a dime a dozen (12M in internet terms) and the ability to triple tap an image and have map info overlay the image would be great, why not add Yelp or for that matter facial recognition with inlined realtime last posts on FB and Twitter to accompany recognized faces. Fanciful daydreaming aside, there's a an incredible amount of space for innovation here.
An interesting and noteworthy topic to add is that Apple was awarded, almost a year ago (although I cannot be accurate of the timeframe) patents pertaining to 3D rending/imaging in both software and hardware solutions. Given their history of patents and the lack of hardware leaks to suggest some implementation it is more than a trifle early but suggestive of what we might see in iOS 7, am I talking about that already?!?
AIWP: Anything is possible
And my two year old Motorola Atrix.
This statement alone tells me you're full of it.
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lol and apple will claim it won't run "smooth" enough on the iPhone 4S and make it a silly iPhone 5 feature only even though any other smartphone on the market has been capable of this feature for quiet some time ...
If I had to guess, some minor change to the camera is in order that will be the basis for excluding older generation iPhones.
So another thing "borrowed" from Android?
That's good. Nice features should be promoted and used. Something that fans from both sides will hopefully learn.
Although I will laugh if it is a "iPhone 5 only" feature
I had panaroma mode on my N95 and N82! So they both "stole" the idea
although i'am one buying the phone and a apple fan I wish the apple had a camera like the nokia lumis these little features are meh!
Cool, now let's get HDR on the iPad. Why is it not there already??!
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Apple adds a little feature, and people complain? What, should it have a camera on a servo that turns and takes the panorama for you?
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Not to mention numerous Canon point-and-shoots.
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I doubt you saw this, but there was an old article revealing an unfinished panorama mode feature in iOS 5 or something that can only be enabled using hacks.
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I wonder what ridiculous excuse they're going to make this time. Even the whole "The iPhone 4 isn't capable of Siri because of the processor." excuse was really lame, and now we're talking about panorama.
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under. whelming.will do better than this. I'm sure it is just a footnote.
Apple adds a little feature, and people complain? What, should it have a camera on a servo that turns and takes the panorama for you?
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I had panaroma mode on my N95 and N82! So they both "stole" the idea
Not to mention numerous Canon point-and-shoots.
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I doubt you saw this, but there was an old article revealing an unfinished panorama mode feature in iOS 5 or something that can only be enabled using hacks.
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lol and apple will claim it won't run "smooth" enough on the iPhone 4S and make it a silly iPhone 5 feature only even though any other smartphone on the market has been capable of this feature for quiet some time ...
I wonder what ridiculous excuse they're going to make this time. Even the whole "The iPhone 4 isn't capable of Siri because of the processor." excuse was really lame, and now we're talking about panorama.
This is not something new. Everyone know.
But I hope this feature is including up-to-date technology.
With the software and integration ability of Apple engineers, the quality of the panorama photo can be better than others.
Just waiting for reviews after the phone is out.
But I hope this feature is including up-to-date technology.
With the software and integration ability of Apple engineers, the quality of the panorama photo can be better than others.
Just waiting for reviews after the phone is out.
The tangible reason is simple...They want you to buy the latest stuff so they can make more money, and make shareholders happy. That is what being a successful business is all about. It's called capitalism.
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I'm interested in buying the new iPod touch. I hope the camera will be as good as the iPhone 4S.
Good God, reading the comments here you'd think this was engadget or some other anti-apple circle-jerk.
