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Potential First Released Photo Taken by an iPhone 5

iPad 3 said:
This may be a big surprise to many but contrary to what camera manufacters like consumers to beleive MegaPixels DO NOT relate the the quality of an image, mearly its size, megapixel simple means "1000 pixels", it tells nothing of the actual quality of the image. While this is well known to people into photography its still widely beleived by consumers.

See:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
http://cyberphotographer.com/megapixelmyth/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=me...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
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mega pixels means millions of pixels
 
TallManNY said:
Very interesting. I find myself taking plenty of pictures with my iPhone 4, so a real upgrade in quality would be meaningful for me. However, extra megabits isn't really going to help that much. I want low light capability and better lens. Often I only email around a smaller than fullsized picture anyway. I hope Apple keeps focused on the quality of the picture and doesn't get into the stupid megabits war.
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+1 This. Megapixels mean NOTHING. To the lay person they make all the difference, but to people who understand cameras, megapixel counts are ridiculous.
 
ipad 3 said:
this may be a big surprise to many but contrary to what camera manufacters like consumers to beleive megapixels do not relate the the quality of an image, mearly its size, megapixel simple means "1,000,000 pixels", it tells nothing of the actual quality of the image. While this is well known to people into photography its still widely beleived by consumers. In many cases increased megapixels can decrease the quality of an image(!) if the mp count is greater than the capabilities of the cameras sensor.

See:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
http://cyberphotographer.com/megapixelmyth/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=me...s=org.mozilla:en-gb:official&client=firefox-a
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+1
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

Unless of course, you like to crop your pictures. Then Megapixels become more important.
 
alent1234 said:
here is to hoping you can take RAW photos on the new iphone
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While photographers like myself would love that I can't see Apple doing that. The vast vast majority of users wouldn't know what that means and would likely never use it.
 
Appears it may have the same issue of a green spot in the middle of the photo, just like my iPhone 4.
 
4np said:
However, the GPS location points to China?
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You're missing the directionals on latitude and longitude, so you're getting China instead of Cupertino.

Peace said:
I don't know where people got that GPS data but my Photoshop RAW data shows this :

</exif:SubjectArea>
<exif:SensingMethod>2</exif:SensingMethod>
<exif:ExposureMode>0</exif:ExposureMode>
<exif:WhiteBalance>0</exif:WhiteBalance>
<exif:SceneCaptureType>0</exif:SceneCaptureType>
<exif:Sharpness>0</exif:Sharpness>
<exif:GPSLatitude>37,19.93N</exif:GPSLatitude>
<exif:GPSLongitude>122,1.82W</exif:GPSLongitude>
<exif:GPSAltitudeRef>0</exif:GPSAltitudeRef>
<exif:GPSAltitude>11847/160</exif:GPSAltitude>
<exif:GPSTimeStamp>2011-07-22T18:53:12Z</exif:GPSTimeStamp>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>

That puts it in Caloocan City, Philippines
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37º 19.93' N, 122º 1.82' W is Cupertino, not the Phillippines.

But yes, EXIF data can certainly be manipulated, so take this for what it is.
 
This just made the craving for sushi that I've had for the past week so much stronger.

On another note, do people seriously care about the camera on their phone so much? The camera on the iPhone 4 is good enough for everyday snapshots, and if I really want to take a photograph I just pull out my DSLR.
 
WildCowboy said:
You're missing the directionals on latitude and longitude, so you're getting China instead of Cupertino.



37º 19.93' N, 122º 1.82' W is Cupertino, not the Phillippines.

But yes, EXIF data can certainly be manipulated, so take this for what it is.
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I'm lost.

Why does google maps point it to the Philippines ?
 
Look carefully

If you look carefully at the reflection on the plate at the 9 o'clock position, you can just make out the reflection of Gray Powell


:D
 
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Can't someone here do that thing from The Dark Knight, using an iPhone 4 mounted on a track, snapping photos of various dinner plates, then having the computer analyze a reflection that looks similar which will give us the reflection dispersal pattern from which we can reconstruct the image of the iPhone that took this photo from the reflections scattered around the dinner plate?

It would totally work!
 
Here is the photo on Flickr...posted by Apple engineer Anton D'Auria. Seems to actually be him.
 
Dmac77 said:
On another note, do people seriously care about the camera on their phone so much? The camera on the iPhone 4 is good enough for everyday snapshots, and if I really want to take a photograph I just pull out my DSLR.
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Most people don't own DSLRs. Many people who have DSLRs don't carry around them around 24x7 whereas most people who own cellphones have them within a few steps away.

Also, a better quality camera is helpful in low-light situations, particularly when shooting video where the effective shutter speed is 1/60 second.
 
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