iPhone 3Gs

[jke]

The iPhone camera is different because it is on an iPhone which is different. The iPhone OS is as functional as any mobile OS (call, email, etc.) but its designers have captured something key about the visual relationship between user and device that makes the iPhone like a Swiss army knife of visual information, both retrieval and creation. Sort of the way VW captured something elemental about the relationship between drivers and their cars with the Beetle, or Maitani captured something elemental about a photographer's relationship with the size and quality of their camera.

The app I use a lot are:

Pano - stitch program with portrait and landscape modes

Flickr - for both viewing and uploading

CameraBag - different photo looks made famous by Chase Jarvis

Camera Genius - Has a few features like viewfinder lines for leveling, anti-shake (sort of goofy but works) and big button that changes the whole screen into a shutter button.

Massive Development Chart - analog meets digital

I actually shot a ton of video footage on my iPhone that a friend who is a conceptual artist ended up using in a piece she'll be showing later this year. The quality wasn't terrific but it was interesting, and with some editing in studio, it came out looking like Super8, which was perfect for the task at hand.

 

[Ducky]

My grandson, my chief source of techie info, says iphone may be coming out with a two camera version in June, one for taking pix and the other looking backward for video conferencing.
More than I can concieve of.

 

[SteveM(PA)]

I like TiltShift

 

[SteveM(PA)]

And I sometimes run other pics through LoMob

 

[semrich]

Here's a shot from my 3G leaving the movies when I didn't have have a camera with me. I may start remembering to use it on more occasions.

 

[SteveM(PA)]

And LoMob has a new "Impossible" filter

 

[filmfan]

Nice shots. I have forgotten about the camera on my iphone altogether until now...

 

[maggieo]

I am huge fan of my iPhone's camera, especially with the Hipstamatic app. (I also like CameraBag, Tilt Shift Generator and Photogene) I've even come to think of the Hipstamatic as a camera in its own right. "I've got an M8, an M2, an XA and a Hipstmatic 150."

Here's some of my fave Hipstamatic shots:

 

[maggieo]

And LoMob has a new "Impossible" filter

I love the whole fake Polaroid genre, but sheesh, if your app is going to mimic an SX-70, at least get the frakkin' mask right!!! LoMob scanned the back of the film, ferchrissake! </rant> :bang:

Great pic, BTW!!

 

[coelacanth]

I've heard so much about this hipstamatic so i got it.

Photo of REAL Pola shots.

On my way home.

 

[maggieo]

Love 'em both, Sug! But I have a warm spot for photos of photos, so I extra like the first one.

 

[Bike Tourist]

I went out with my Bessa R2 this morning. Exposed to the end of the roll and then finished up with the iPhone. It's probably just the newness of the toy, but it sure was fun.

(My D700and lenses stayed in the bag!)

 

[P. Lynn Miller]

Have not been to RFF for ages... this thread happened be at the top of the page... now I am an addicted Hipstamatic user... completely changed my opinion of the camera in the iPhone.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I don't have the iPhone, really would like one but since my office pays for mine through Verizon (and they don't offer the iPhone) I had to get a Motorola Android, pretty cool results when shot through the FXcamera app.

it's cool to always have a camera available wherever you are, the last two were shot while at work, the first one was at a car show I rode by and stopped to check out.

Todd