Comments on: iPhone photography, why so popular?

By: julian

julian — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:00:14 +0000

I agree on 1 point: “Creativity loves constraints” -Marisa Mayer, Google.
The rest, you completely omit that you are a photographer (probably of profesional level) and that most of iPhone users are not.
“The camera in the iPhone is a crap, everybody knows that”… <– I dont think so… Do you have data to back that assertion?

By: zuco

zuco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:50:50 +0000

@Mona Nomura
Thanks for the links. Really nice BW set of pictures :)

By: Mona Nomura

Mona Nomura — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:45:09 +0000

Absolutely agreed! People can’t get over my iPhone photos (ex: http://bit.ly/6UAZkh …entire album here http://bit.ly/7iDeTR) but like every photog says time and time again: it is not the equipment, but skills and most importantly, eye.

By: zuco

zuco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:15:11 +0000

Thanks :)
The 4th gen iPhone and beyond will literally change the way we interact with the environment. It’s already changing. The improvement in the tech side, plus the better communications, will redefine photography as well as adding the social value that, until now, wasn’t so fast and immediate as nowadays.

I hope to see soon DSRL with social capabilities, maybe with the possibility to link them with smart phones. Just imagine, a DSRL, with video that interacts with a smart phone powerful enough to edit the pictures and do with them any logic we propose. Tags based on image parameters, recognizing the objects and so forth… Fortunately we will see all that :)

By: Paul Papadimitriou

Paul Papadimitriou — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:58:57 +0000

I still have the 3G, so don’t get me started about my camera :-) Then again, I find it quite ok especially in average light conditions. Having installed apps like Photogene or CameraBag helps getting better results, to the point I sometimes send iPhone pics to my Flickr.

It’s all about composition, all about attention to details. Not that you don’t do it when you have a DSLR, but you know that the end result will be worse with the iPhone.

The ability to send on the spot to posterous, Flickr, Zooomr or whatever other app balances that quality issue. It’s portability and shareness-ready against quality. For that, the iPhone camera is good enough tech in my eyes.

I don’t expect a miracle, but I’m waiting for the promised 5MP camera on the 4th gen iPhone, bound to be announced this May.

Cheers,

Paul.