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Complaining about the iPhone’s camera?

Posted on by Kurt Weiske

Kyle Cassidy’s take on the iPhone’s camera, from his iPhonetography site:

THE CAMERA THAT COMES WITH THE iPHONE IS TERRIBLE

Many people decry it’s smallish megapixel count (3), but really, as any serious digital photographer will tell you, size doesn’t matter. The most frustrating thing about the image that comes from the iPhone is the noise. Not audible noise, but digital grain. That, and it’s slow response time, and of course, the lack of control: apart from aiming the camera and depressing shutter button, the user doesn’t have any control over aperture (fixed at 2.8) focal length, shutter speed, or even ISO, which swings from ~70 into the 1000+ range as it wants. The 3Gs has a “press here to focus” option that does adjust the exposure, but seems to refocus as it sees fit afterwards, more taunt than feature.

 

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Camerabag, More iPhone Camera Fun

Posted on by Kurt Weiske

I had a lot of fun with Hipstamatic, the iPhone camera application that’s taking my Facebook friends list by storm. It does feel odd to buy a $1.99 app to turn my $199 cameraphone into a $2 plastic camera, but there <<are>> benefits to going digital – for less than the cost of a roll of 120 film, I can shoot endless square format pictures.

I tried CameraBag, another fun photo manipulation app. This app doesn’t have the mind-mangling number of unintuitive film/lens combos that Hipstamatic has. I think I like it better.

The Camerabag filter names make more sense, at least – helga, lomo, 1974, fisheye.

Buy it at the iTunes store, or follow them on Twitter

Meters, Hanapepe HI

Posted on by Kurt Weiske

I was in Kaua’i last week, spent most of my time lounging at the pool and the beach, but took some day trips (short trips, given the size of the island!)

Hanapepe is a funky little artists community on the southwest side of the island with old buildings, artists galleries, a laid-back bohemian feel, and some of the best coffee and sweets on the island, at Blue Planet Cafe.

I brought my LOMO LC-A+ and shot 3 rolls of film. I’m thinking about switching back to my old 1990 LC-A, though. I like having framelines and focus indicators in the viewfinder, and I wanted to shoot with my color flash. The LC-A doesn’t have a setting to force the aperture/shutter speed, so I wasn’t sure how the pictures would turn out. I would have liked to get some shots of “colorsplashed” palm trees at night.

I took most of my shots with my Blackberry Tour 9630 – with a resolution of 3 megapixels, image stabilization, and an adequate flash, I barely took my digital point-and-shoot out of the case!