Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I can be quite a lazy photographer... especially when it comes to taking photos for my self that dont matter a huge amount... an example of this is the situation that requires a image to be dropped into a forum post or something similar. my other hobby is my hifi, i am a member of a hifi forum, i like to post photos of my latest bit of kit, i cant be bothered to get out my proper camera and go through the rigmarole involved... so i use my iphone
The iphone has a camera, and apps are available for taking your images from the iphone and adding them to you photobucket account. photobucket even provides the relevant BB code to just copy and paste the link into thread of a forum...
perfect for a lazy person like my self... well apart from the fact that the iphone camera is very poor!... the 3gs camera that is!
The 3gs apeared to have had no concideration to the camera at all.
im not suggesting it didnt work, in daylight it was fine.... well passable... and i did get the odd nice-ish piccy...
it also had the ability to catch you out with flare and the like... sometimes to the benefit of the image.. and sometimes not... that is of course subjective...
for the most part the results were something along these lines...
well you wouldn't frame that would you?!
still if it was just a quick shot to say.. "look i have my dac sat on top of my speaker because i have run out of room in the hifi rack" it doesnt really matter to much.
No doubt people will chime up with comments of "you should take more pride in your work".
maybe your right, maybe i should get out my d3 to take every photo... but for me, sometimes the effort just isn't worth it!
so yeah, the 3gs was noisy to the point of unusable, it had about 3 stops of dynamic range at most, had no flash... but was useful
A few months back i heard that apple were bringing out a phone that had a flash built in... an encouraging sign that they might have actually thought a little bit about the camera aspect of the device...
by coincidence i was due an upgrade the week the iphone 4 came out, so i got one!
the first thing i did was play with the camera...
its still pretty basic, its 5 megapixels instead of the 2.x in the 3gs... and it has a flash...
of course those 2 factors really dont mean much at all on paper... so how does it fair compared to the 3gs....
The iphone has a camera, and apps are available for taking your images from the iphone and adding them to you photobucket account. photobucket even provides the relevant BB code to just copy and paste the link into thread of a forum...
perfect for a lazy person like my self... well apart from the fact that the iphone camera is very poor!... the 3gs camera that is!
The 3gs apeared to have had no concideration to the camera at all.
im not suggesting it didnt work, in daylight it was fine.... well passable... and i did get the odd nice-ish piccy...
it also had the ability to catch you out with flare and the like... sometimes to the benefit of the image.. and sometimes not... that is of course subjective...
for the most part the results were something along these lines...
well you wouldn't frame that would you?!
still if it was just a quick shot to say.. "look i have my dac sat on top of my speaker because i have run out of room in the hifi rack" it doesnt really matter to much.
No doubt people will chime up with comments of "you should take more pride in your work".
maybe your right, maybe i should get out my d3 to take every photo... but for me, sometimes the effort just isn't worth it!
so yeah, the 3gs was noisy to the point of unusable, it had about 3 stops of dynamic range at most, had no flash... but was useful
A few months back i heard that apple were bringing out a phone that had a flash built in... an encouraging sign that they might have actually thought a little bit about the camera aspect of the device...
by coincidence i was due an upgrade the week the iphone 4 came out, so i got one!
the first thing i did was play with the camera...
its still pretty basic, its 5 megapixels instead of the 2.x in the 3gs... and it has a flash...
of course those 2 factors really dont mean much at all on paper... so how does it fair compared to the 3gs....
