New Yorker: "With the iPhone 7, apple changed the camera industry forever"

[Addy101]

I see the nineties called and claimed BT back. 😀

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Apple puts wired headphones in the box with the iPhone 7, no Bluetooth ones... and there are several reasons why a BT headphone isn't the best solution anyway. But this is a photography site.

 

[Lss]

and there are several reasons why a BT headphone isn't the best solution anyway. But this is a photography site.

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]

Oh, almost forgot, hope you don't use it to listen to music or watch videos - no headphone jack 😱

This is so overblown... they give you the adapter with the phone and it adds inches to your headphone cable.

 

[maggieo]

Complaining about cameraphones is like complaining about Kodak Instamatic 126 cartridge cameras back in the 60s and 70s.

 

[jsrockit]

My 7 + 256GB can't get here soon enough.

I'm with you (128gb though).

 

[honozooloo]

i wonder how long before these phones fire off-camera lighting.

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.

EDIT:
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]

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?

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]

I'm with you (128gb though).

Just got moved to prep for shipping, likely get it by mid week. Should be fun, the iPhone is my favorite digital cam!

 

[valdas]

This is so overblown... they give you the adapter with the phone and it adds inches to your headphone cable.

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]

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)...

Yeah, life is rough 😉

 

[jsrockit]

Just got moved to prep for shipping, likely get it by mid week. Should be fun, the iPhone is my favorite digital cam!

Lucky you, I was late to ordering, so I have to wait.

 

[DougFord]

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]

Lucky you, I was late to ordering, so I have to wait.

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....

...otherwise known as the dongle renaissance. Want to charge your iphone and plug in your earphones, try the classic y-cable.

More than 3 connections = Shlongle...😀

 

[emraphoto]

I don't mean to call you out, but things like what? It's a tiny sensor camera with a two stage zoom - I understand it's all connected to the social media platforms etc, but in terms of being a camera, it's still a pretty limited device. I feel it may change the way people post ****ty latte art and seflies on instagram, but I doubt it will have any meaningful effect on actual photography. I don't see photojournalists dumping their 5d's or fashion photographers ditching their phase ones to use an iphone because they can post the photos to instagram a few hours quicker...

"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.