Well, here's something the iPhone doesn't do very well. I don't know how to compare the quality of the photos to other phones, but it's certainly no threat to my Canons.
There's almost a pastelly, autochrome looking feel to the image. It actually might be a useful aesthetic to explore. And it nails the color balance pretty well actually, even if it can't do saturation.
There is almost no metadata attached to the image as it comes out of the phone. The camera make is Apple, the model is iPhone, and then there's a date code and an f-stop (f/2.8). It does assign a color space, which shows up as "Camera RGB Profile," whatever that is (the metadata displays it as sRGB). The native file size is 1600 pixels.
From what I understand, the iphone camera is very mediocre at best. There are many phones with much better cameras in them. The Nokia N95 smart phone has one of the best cameras I've ever seen in it. It is 5 MP. Here is a link to an article that compares the two. http://scobleizer.com/2007/07/01/comparing-n95-to-iphone/
The difference is night and day!
Posted by: Jeff H | February 11, 2008 at 11:58 PM