Impressive Capabilities
posted by CC
Lunchtime Walk
Taken and processed on the iPhone
The camera capabilities of the iPhone have a lot of attention, especially considering it is a lower resolution camera compared to is competition, and yet it seems to outperform those better cameras.
This photo, which I took while out for a lunchtime walk, is a perfect example of why. White swans against a dark river is a classic nightmare exposure, and look at how the iPhone handled it. If you look you will notice the body of the right swan is blown out, but the rocks are as dark as they can without losing all the detail – this seems about the perfect exposure for this dynamic range.
Too many cameras would have lost the swans entirely.
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Nice picture. Manual or auto setting? For a small, unsophisticated camera, that is an impressive picture.
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Auto with help – the only setting you can control on the iPhone is “tap to focus” – if you tap an area it focuses on that area, and does a centre-weighted meter on that spot. It is a surprisingly useful control for something so simple!
The other thing is that this picture never touched a computer – I took it and then sent it to Flickr while walking away from the river.
February 4th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Impressive camera. Nice framing on the part of the photographer, as well.