New Yorker: "With the iPhone 7, apple changed the camera industry forever"
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Lss
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Outside of planes where there may be weekly-changing random rules in place, wireless is the only sensible way to go for mobile use IMO. But this is a photography site.
jsrockit
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This is so overblown... they give you the adapter with the phone and it adds inches to your headphone cable.
maggieo
More Deadly
Complaining about cameraphones is like complaining about Kodak Instamatic 126 cartridge cameras back in the 60s and 70s.
jsrockit
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I'm with you (128gb though).
honozooloo
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THIS. One of my dream/wishlist items is an app that can fire a simple wireless strobe trigger via the lightning port. Maybe I'm just dreaming big but I'd imagine pretty insane sync speeds being possible as I believe (and this is unsubstantiated - just a hunch) that the iPhone camera's using some form of digital shutter?
Thinking about what the camera landscape could look like in another decade - imagine a small, wifi or bluetooth-controlled drone carrying a strobe that could place lighting at any angle you'd want, and fire on sync with your phone or camera? Yeah, I prefer just a camera and a lens when it's for personal use, but I see a lot of potential fun to be had with a lot of the new tech hitting the market once it matures and converges a bit. These are exciting times.
Yeah, for serious work of course this camera isn't going to compare to any of the options RFF users normally go to when we think "camera," but like it or not we fans of precision engineering and best of breed optics represent the extreme minority of camera users at this point.
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AND - just one more thought on the matter - I'm seeing many posts minimizing the importance of the iPhone camera because there are better options. And yeah there are...but think of it this way: The next generation of photographers will all likely have been introduced to the craft of photography via their smartphones.
I'd posit that many of the exciting new photographers to make an impact on the industry will come from a background like this within the next decade or so. In another generation, smartphone cameras will probably be everyone's first camera. Like it or not, it's important.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
All smartphones I am aware of have horrible rolling shutter problems. Which is a significant handicap regarding short sync times - it is the reason why no smartphones past the Nokia era had a proper xenon flash any more.
This will eventually get fixed, but probably not the direct way - that is, they will hardly sort it out for external flash, but external flash will only become a possibility once they switch to global shutter sensors for better movie making. Which will take its time - so far, global shutters are a expensive cine camera solution, they have barely made it to video-capable DSLRs and EVILs, and it will take even longer until they trickle down to smartphones.
KM-25
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Just got moved to prep for shipping, likely get it by mid week. Should be fun, the iPhone is my favorite digital cam!
valdas
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The adapter is just terrible ergonomically... And frankly, expensive Apple cables and adapters are so lousy (maybe by design?), you just keep on replacing them (and Apple does a good job making sure cheap third party products don't work after the next OS upgrade)...
jsrockit
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jsrockit
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Lucky you, I was late to ordering, so I have to wait.
DougFord
on the good foot
Yeah, life is rough 😉
...otherwise known as the dongle renaissance. Want to charge your iphone and plug in your earphones, try the classic y-cable.
KM-25
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It was the most brutal pre-order of any Apple product I have ever seen, all kinds of crashes, stalls, late to the game store times, you name it. The wheels on the Blunder-bus went round and round, round and round....
More than 3 connections = Shlongle...😀
emraphoto
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"I don't see photojournalists dumping their 5d's" i dropped the slr a long time ago. many colleagues have done the same thing. if i came across a phone solution (totally interface issues for me) i would jump without a glance back. right now i carry a phone and a Canon g7x daily... in the front pocket of my jeans. i can work entirely out of the front pocket of my jeans!
when my students arrive for their first class on video journalism i show them a short clip of the BBC crew working in West Africa with an iphone and external audio recorder first thing. "pro" cameras come in all shapes and sizes.
my biggest gripe with the iphone is that it doesn't run dual sims and removing the battery is way too much work. both strange but important issues in my books.
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