The Art of iPhone Photography

On Jun 16, 2009, at 16:21, Brian Pearce
<red.jacket.press.mailgmail.com> wrote:
> I've never entirely understood the complaints about the iPhone's
> built-in camera — it's a cell phone camera, fergoshsakes, so I shoul
> d think expectations would be limited for that reason.

It's a significantly worse camera than others in its class, and for
what I use the dreadful RAZR camera phone for, the iPhone is useless
(taking pictures of price tags, receipts, and barcodes).

As a general snaps camera it's fine, but I have high hopes the ///gs
will be a really good camera.

On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:27 AM, LuKreme wrote:

>
> On Jun 16, 2009, at 16:21, Brian Pearce
> <red.jacket.press.mailgmail.com> wrote:
>> I've never entirely understood the complaints about the iPhone's
>> built-in camera � it's a cell phone camera, fergoshsakes, so I shoul
>> d think expectations would be limited for that reason.
>
> It's a significantly worse camera than others in its class, and for
> what I use the dreadful RAZR camera phone for, the iPhone is useless
> (taking pictures of price tags, receipts, and barcodes).
>
> As a general snaps camera it's fine, but I have high hopes the ///gs
> will be a really good camera.
>
>
Whenever I get a decent picture with my iPhone is when I wish I'd had
my Nikon D300 along.

Sometimes the pictures are OK for posting somewhere like Facebook. My
dog sniffing at the fire hydrant has been posted on his page at http://facebook.com/kenji.inu/
.

Not yet tried to print any of them into physical prints to hang on my
wall. Haven't posted any of them at my smugmug page either.



Dave Clark

On Jun 17, 2009, at 3:27 AM, LuKreme wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2009, at 16:21, Brian Pearce
> <red.jacket.press.mailgmail.com> wrote:
>> I've never entirely understood the complaints about the iPhone's
>> built-in camera � it's a cell phone camera, fergoshsakes, so I shoul
>> d think expectations would be limited for that reason.
>
> It's a significantly worse camera than others in its class, and for
> what I use the dreadful RAZR camera phone for, the iPhone is useless
> (taking pictures of price tags, receipts, and barcodes).
>
The folks over at Evernote are acutely aware of that problem, since
apparently, lots of folks use Evernote on the iPhone to record that
kind of useful information.

They recommend this:

<http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/clarifi.html>

The reviews on Amazon, however, say that it's got a few minor issues
(ie. the lens flops back and forth instead of staying in place as well
as it ought to).

<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GK3S7A>

If there's an alternative which offers similar features, I'd be
interested.

(I currently use a Speck ToughSkin on mine, fwiw. Good but not
great. I find I'm saddened by how unimpressive the selection of cases
is.)

--d

> (I currently use a Speck ToughSkin on mine, fwiw. Good but not
> great. I find I'm saddened by how unimpressive the selection of cases
> is.)

I haven't been able to find case I like since Case Mate's Flip Case (for the original iPhone) was discontinued. I use it with the 3G, but it's a tight fit.

BRIAN PEARCE

I accomplish the same thing with a $3 plastic lens.
I gotta get into that business.
Gus

Try goooooogling super resolution
SRez is a method for improving the resolution of a imaging system by
taking multiple photos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution.

If anyone wants the notes I have collected, I will e-mail them to you.
Contact me at SReznope9.com.

Gus

On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Brian Pearce wrote:

> I haven't been able to find case I like since Case Mate's Flip Case
> (for the original iPhone) was discontinued.

http://www.senacases.com/Brands/Apple-iPhone-Cases

Better than Case Mate, imo.