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Steve Jobs to Be Inducted Into International Photography Hall of Fame
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WTF are people talking about? The iPhone camera was terrible until the 2010 iPhone 4 (it only got AF with the 3GS) and the iPad 1 likewise had a terrible (and by then woefully out of date) camera module. Does that suggest that SJ was "passionate" about photography?
Even my 2007 Nokia N79 had a 5MP AF camera with Tessar lens (fwiw).
He was clearly artistically inclined and had an eye for art and aesthetics, I'll completely agree on that, but none of the bios I've read make him out to be that interested in photography per se. Now, as to the popularity of the iPhone - it certainly helped mobile photography, and in an overcrowded market, having the new "pro" photographers take photos with an iPhone surely gave some of the first ones some publicity, but really - the camera phone is now suddenly SJ's "invention"? He made a good phone with, eventually, a really good camera, and photographers, long associating with "Apple" as a brand are way more likely to have an iPhone than, say, a Samsung phone even if the latter would take equally good photos.
I compared an HTC One S (2012) to an iPhone 5 (2012) and they were nearly identical (again, FWIW, I normally shoot primes on a DSLR)
Moreover, this award is not about SJ nor his contribution, this award is to put the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in the news and anyone that thinks otherwise is naive.
When I had the very first iPhone, it's camera was the best cell phone camera I had used up to that point. Sure cameras that are real cameras are better, but this made mobile photography a real thing. It is probably not the top smart phone camera today, and that is a shame. The first iPhone photos I actually printed on 8x12 photo paper and they looked really really good.
As far as the Int. Photo HOF...I have not idea who they are and I am sure you are 100% correct. All PR.
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I'm a photographer and enjoyed the wonders of Apple and was a fan of Steve Jobs but I honestly don't think he's deserving of this. Countless others did work on the iPhone and I'm sure someone else at some point thought it would be a great idea to put a camera in a phone.
All the boyfans can hate me all they want but there's truth in what I'm saying.
All the boyfans can hate me all they want but there's truth in what I'm saying.
We all have our heroes. For many of us, Steve Jobs is one of them. And Steve Jobs was reportedly a big admirer of the life and work of Ansel Adams. So, it's nice to see Steve enshrined in a Hall of Fame that also honors one of his own heroes.
The best camera is the one you have with you, though ... and *that* is where the iPhone made a real impact. With so many of them in use, it really helped put people in the situation where they practically always have a camera handy. It's not about who had the best lens or the best auto-focus or any of that, IMO. It's about the fact that before the iPhone made smartphones the "standard", you still had a lot of people running around with flip or "candy bar" type cellphones with pointless cameras. Why pointless? Because the average person didn't have any easy way to get the content off the phone and into the computer where it could be easily edited, stored permanently, printed out or shared.
Really, you didn't even have many cellphones with screens big enough to get a good look at whatever photos you took, before the iPhone made the whole touch-screen thing the "norm".
As for the motivation behind the museum giving SJ this award? Look - practically ALL blogs, magazines, and other forms of news media took advantage of the buzz Apple generated. So of course that's partially true. But that doesn't make it any less incredible that he single-handedly rescued the practically dead Apple Computer company when he took control of it again, and created all of these products that people really cared about.
Really, you didn't even have many cellphones with screens big enough to get a good look at whatever photos you took, before the iPhone made the whole touch-screen thing the "norm".
As for the motivation behind the museum giving SJ this award? Look - practically ALL blogs, magazines, and other forms of news media took advantage of the buzz Apple generated. So of course that's partially true. But that doesn't make it any less incredible that he single-handedly rescued the practically dead Apple Computer company when he took control of it again, and created all of these products that people really cared about.
I was but 11 when he died and I hardly knew his name. Since then, his determination, leadership, and design sense has been an inspiration to me.
As a proud son of St. Louis, I'm definitely glad we can have some sort of connection to Steve, even if it's posthumous. I hope they have some sort of ceremony that I can go back home to see.
I read somewhere, but can't find the exact quote, that, shortly before his death, Steve told Tim, to paraphrase, "do what you think is best and don't constantly ask yourself, what would I do." I, for one, am tired of the "Steve would think Tim is doing it wrong" meme, and I don't think anyone other than a few close friends and his family can have any way of knowing if Steve would be disappointed with today's Apple.
Well Deserved. 
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I know. He was so "Steve." Can you imagine Tim getting pissed off at a Key Note. "OK Team. I'm so excited, but, no cookies tonight after movie time."
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I know. He was so "Steve." Can you imagine Tim getting pissed off at a Key Note. "OK Team. I'm so excited, but, no cookies tonight after movie time."
What are you talking about? It was terrible: 2 MP, no video, no autofocus, no flash.
At that time i had some Nokias with way better cameras (N95 and N82, if i remember). The first iphone with a decent camera was iphone 4, but even that wasn't better than a 3 year old N82 with 5MP, Zeiss optics and Xenon flash.
iPhones never had great cameras, even a Samsung S6 takes better pictures than the 6S.
S7 and Note7 are considerably better.
I'm not surprised at this award.
Jobs' obsession with the best possible experience with cellphone cameras is why Apple for many years held the lead in the best cellphone camera experience, only matched in very recent years with the cameras on the Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S7 and now Galaxy Note 7 cellphones. And it appears Apple will become a leader with cellphone cameras again with (possibly) real optical image stabilization on the upcoming iPhone 7 and the LinX-derived dual-sensor camera on the iPhone 7+.
Jobs' obsession with the best possible experience with cellphone cameras is why Apple for many years held the lead in the best cellphone camera experience, only matched in very recent years with the cameras on the Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S7 and now Galaxy Note 7 cellphones. And it appears Apple will become a leader with cellphone cameras again with (possibly) real optical image stabilization on the upcoming iPhone 7 and the LinX-derived dual-sensor camera on the iPhone 7+.
That is sometimes more important than the tech. Many times, a technology is continually re-invented till someone with the right vision of its use places it to the masses properly.
As much as I dislike some of the choices and decisions this man made.
Mainly he, and he alone destroyed Apple as a company that would produce high power machines for the entertainment area (gaming) by himself having no interest in that area.
And if he alone. just HE as an individual was "Into" gaming, we now, and for the past xx years would have a very different lineup of Apple desktop computers, and all the major games companies would be writing so much high end software just for Apple.
Despite. Due to his personal lack of interest in this area, destroying Apple as a company in this particular area of the market (The area that started his company off)
Whilst I can never like the man for this.
I agree totally he was an individual that was unique in his passion and ability to use others? in a way that allowed him to create his vision.
Like many people, I'm under no illusion he was a nice man to have to work with. Totally the opposite, unless you were just a personal friend. But most high end people who "get things done" are like this in reality.
Even whilst I don't agree as I say with a fair number of his choices.
He deserves to be highlighted and go down in history as someone who made such a difference to the world on portable technology.
Mainly he, and he alone destroyed Apple as a company that would produce high power machines for the entertainment area (gaming) by himself having no interest in that area.
And if he alone. just HE as an individual was "Into" gaming, we now, and for the past xx years would have a very different lineup of Apple desktop computers, and all the major games companies would be writing so much high end software just for Apple.
Despite. Due to his personal lack of interest in this area, destroying Apple as a company in this particular area of the market (The area that started his company off)
Whilst I can never like the man for this.
I agree totally he was an individual that was unique in his passion and ability to use others? in a way that allowed him to create his vision.
Like many people, I'm under no illusion he was a nice man to have to work with. Totally the opposite, unless you were just a personal friend. But most high end people who "get things done" are like this in reality.
Even whilst I don't agree as I say with a fair number of his choices.
He deserves to be highlighted and go down in history as someone who made such a difference to the world on portable technology.
It was not - I had a Nokia N95 8GB phone at that time. It had a 5mp sensor with Carl Zeiss optics. Took great photos actually.
The already on the market Nokia n95 dumped all over the first iPhone in terms of picture quality. Not quite sure what the iPhone did to magically make folk think they could suddenly take a good picture with their phone..
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Lol, is this a joke, the first iPhone didn't even have 3g lol. The Nokia n95 ate it for breakfast with its carl zeiss optics....
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This is getting silly now, he didn't create anything... he was a salesman who convinced folk that he could sell you a dream, and that's what he did..
We can agrue about it all day. The only way to prove any of it is to get all the phones and take the same photos with them both.
You are correct...it was a long time ago. I remember it being the best camera I had used on a cell phone to date. I have corrected my post to reflect that change. Thanks.
Apple or SJ didn't advance photography, so there is not any way they did contribute .
Cell phone cameras had been around before the iPhone, which never had a class leading camera since its introduction . And certainly never had a camera that allowed to take any decent pictures compared to even basic photo cameras .
Macs are still popular amongst photographers, even though they no longer make useable and competitive workstations and their OS development strategy is hurting creative production big time .
The induction is just a gift to a billion dollar company, which is well connected and knows which wheels to grease - there is no connection between Apple / SJ and photography in any way .