iPhone Camera Photo, Found Online
This looks pretty plausible to me. It appears that somebody snagged a 2-megapixel photo taken with the iPhone’s built-in camera. It looks quite nice, though somebody should have cleaned the lens first! There has been a lot of conjecture about the built-in camera.
It looks a LOT better than what my Treo 650 can provide… Now that folks can buy a ten megapixel camera for less than $300, I suspect that our phones will follow suit as well, very soon.
Cameras inside of modern phones are getting better, and the one in the iPhone looks to be quite nice enough (unlike most) to be able to stand in for a regular camera in a pinch.
For a typical example of how wretched our results can be when we tolerate older technology, check out this photo I took with my Treo 650 at the Mirage’s White Tiger Exhibit in Vegas… The image is crappy, un-edited, and yet it was the best one from the entire collection!
I’m a photographer, and I have an extremely high-end camera that was too big and clunky to bring along to Vegas. Most of the time, I didn’t miss it, but when I DID want it, I had only my horrid Treo with me.
I want it it all… Phone, address and calendar and alarms, Internet access, video and music player, and a camera that won’t disappoint me. I want it easy to use, I want it high-quality, and I want everything in ONE device that stays with me at all times. That day is coming soon, and that is why the iPhone is being anticipated so gladly all over the world!
Now, they need to put the camera on the FRONT, so that folks can video-chat with each other’s iPhones and Macs. Once the online speed is consistently high, it would be a snap, given how integrated video-chat technology has become in the Apple world. THAT would certainly bring some interest to iPhone 2.0!
