I'm interested in this comment. As a hobbyist photographer the camera in the iPhone is the thing that I'm least interested in, as I can't imagine myself using a camera phone of any type now that I'm accustomed to the image quality of an SLR.
Hi,
Part of the beauty of digital image capture is the ability of sharing moments. I don't want to carry my SLR around with me, I got sick of carrying both a cell phone & small digital camera..... so having an iPhone means I can capture something & share it - not create an 'ultimate image' (altho' an Aussie photographer has just won some award for a montage of iPhone shots). I think that 2 or 3 megapixels is plenty of quality to share around or print to 5"x7". I've used my 3G iPhone to show clients' location recces, prop choices & talent casting.... but where it falls down is close-up detail & mid-distance focus. As an exercise in my own discipline, I've been keeping a blog going from the iPhone & just using apps on the phone to edit the images - it's a great bit of fun to do this instead of having to take the card out of the SLR, load the large quantity of data onto the computer, crank up Photoshop & then labour over all the controls.... for the image to be then (often) viewed small on a website or an emailed newsletter or printed thumbnail size in a catalogue.
People also respond sooo differently when a large-lensed SLR is pointed at them, as opposed to a cell phone held up. It's nice to get a bit more spontaneity back into my photography....and I like playing around with video. I have had Cycorder on my phone, but it's pretty low-res & a slow frame rate.
So, yeah....I'm busy talking myself into a 3GS & have even put my 3G on TradeMe to see what happens....I know what the phone will do & I know that it's either as 'closed' or as 'open' as I want it to be...and by the way, I think I spent less time jailbreaking than I have in the past trying to learn how to just operate other cellphones & then search the web for things like a stopwatch to download for my phone... and then find that it was poorly implemented & buggy, so I'd go searching for other stopwatches, etc, etc...
Hi,
Part of the beauty of digital image capture is the ability of sharing moments. I don't want to carry my SLR around with me, I got sick of carrying both a cell phone & small digital camera..... so having an iPhone means I can capture something & share it - not create an 'ultimate image' (altho' an Aussie photographer has just won some award for a montage of iPhone shots). I think that 2 or 3 megapixels is plenty of quality to share around or print to 5"x7". I've used my 3G iPhone to show clients' location recces, prop choices & talent casting.... but where it falls down is close-up detail & mid-distance focus. As an exercise in my own discipline, I've been keeping a blog going from the iPhone & just using apps on the phone to edit the images - it's a great bit of fun to do this instead of having to take the card out of the SLR, load the large quantity of data onto the computer, crank up Photoshop & then labour over all the controls.... for the image to be then (often) viewed small on a website or an emailed newsletter or printed thumbnail size in a catalogue.
People also respond sooo differently when a large-lensed SLR is pointed at them, as opposed to a cell phone held up. It's nice to get a bit more spontaneity back into my photography....and I like playing around with video. I have had Cycorder on my phone, but it's pretty low-res & a slow frame rate.
So, yeah....I'm busy talking myself into a 3GS & have even put my 3G on TradeMe to see what happens....I know what the phone will do & I know that it's either as 'closed' or as 'open' as I want it to be...and by the way, I think I spent less time jailbreaking than I have in the past trying to learn how to just operate other cellphones & then search the web for things like a stopwatch to download for my phone... and then find that it was poorly implemented & buggy, so I'd go searching for other stopwatches, etc, etc...
Cheers,
Mike
Photographer/Videographer clickmedia.nz