iPhone camera test
Today at a wedding reception in Queen Anne I finally got the chance to test out the iPhone's camera in a well-lit outside environment. The results were OK, but not all that great. Mt. Rainier was clearly visible in the background to the eye, but it barely registers on the iPhone pic. The thumbnail below is linked to the full-res version:
Posted on September 9, 2007
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September 9th, 2007 - 22:22
Wow, that is absolutely terrible. Are you using the highest quality setting? The colour grades (especially the blues) seem poor. Have you seen pictures taken by any recent SonyEricsson phone? In daylight, they are virtually indistinguishable from an average 2MP digital camera. This picture has probably just killed the iPhone for me. 🙁
September 10th, 2007 - 00:06
lol – it’s an Apple camera, there are no settings, only one ‘take picture’ button 😛 (not a joke – there really is only one button in the camera app..).
I haven’t seen any actual pictures taken by that Sony Ericsson phone, but I have heard that they are pretty good since the phone actually has a flash and an optical lens.
September 10th, 2007 - 06:12
I don’t know that the quality is so poor…for a phone! It’s definitely picking up the images that are closer…I mean, when I need to take a quick photo and don’t have my digital with me, the phone camera is fine (I have an old Nokia 3660 that I just can’t part with). Plus, my plan charges me to forward those photos on to anyone else or even to my e-mail account if I want to use the photos for something. I think unless you planned to replace a camera with the iPhone, you’d have nothing to worry about. I think the iPhone does so many things, it’s bound to not do everything super well, you know?
(By the way, looks like an awesome day there!)
September 10th, 2007 - 09:00
Yeah – exactly. I didn’t expect the phone to replace my real camera, and the quality is a lot better than my previous phones so I am not complaining. However if the quality had actually turned out to be really good, it would have been nice to be able to get rid of the camera and only carry around the phone.
September 12th, 2007 - 09:23
Seriously though, all SonyEricsson phones from the last 2-3 years and recent phones from manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and LG have cheap Carl Zeiss lenses and produce far better results in phones many times smaller and cheaper than the iPhone. It’s not like Apple couldn’t put a decent camera in there – they were just saving a few cents per device. I think the trouble is that people still perceive camera phone quality to be fairly low, and that is what is keeping all manufacturers from reducing their profit margins a little and increasing the picture quality.
The same reasoning holds when you consider why very few US mobile phones have full Bluetooth support (OBEX/file transfer), while phones sold all around the rest of the world are fully featured. It’s because consumers have been led to believe that these features are not available, and they make a little extra money by charging people to copy pictures off their phones.
September 12th, 2007 - 11:14
haha my prof is rippin on your new office 07 UI 🙂
April 8th, 2009 - 01:56
that is a good pic from a 2mp camera i am crrently using c902 and id say the iphones camera beats c902 by far