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Why the iPhone is the best cam phone on the market |
harry20larry
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Having owned cybershot SE phones from day 1, from K800 > k850 > c905, i finally gave up on the shitty build quality and pathetic performance (playing music in the background grounded everything to a halt).
I since went on to buy a 3GS, which took good photos, but with convincing. I now have an iPhone 4 and I can honestly say it is the best cam phone on the market, if not compact camera. This sounds extreme, but let me explain.
I have a DSLR, which is what I use when I want to take good pictures, compacts can't come close. However, 90% of pictures taken on compacts will end up on facebook, which is why iPhone is so good.
Not only does it take very nice photos, without the fuss of manual settings or strange problems I faced with SE phones, it allows you to edit them on your phone down to relatively advance levels. I am not one for doing this on my phone so I have an app called camera + which has an awesome array of photo tools to give pictures life.
Not only this, but once you have created these photos, you can upload them straight to facebook, anywhere. Which is why I think the iPhone wins as a compact since it completes all 3 of the main tasks in one device/app instead of using 3 different things.
The camera performance of the iPhone is vastly improved from the 3GS, however, it is still not inline with that of compacts, however, test have shown that it has better photo quality than 8MP cam phones. Its not as such about the mega pixel count, but how you use them, which is what I think SE have forgotten.
+ the retina display is phenomenal
Here are some photos I took without any editing:
With camera +:
[ This Message was edited by: harry20larry on 2010-07-13 13:22 ] |
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AbuBasim
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Very good shots but you say that you didn't edit any of the photos. Do you mean editing after downloading from the iPhone instead of in-phone apps? A couple of the shots have clearly been treated to some editing. Like this panorama shot:
And this with a smoke-like frame:
If you use iPhone apps then which ones? I use AutoStitch for stitching panoramic shots.
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Jkovacz
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Flamebait 
And good to see colours (like the blue sky) are as exagerated as they were on the 3G S 
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AbuBasim
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The blue sky looks a bit boosted except in the second shot which looks normal, just like from the 3GS.
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harry20larry
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the panoramic was not altered, just put through autostitch.
Yer, the brown one was edited in camera + on my iPhone, but i did mention that.
The one with the very blue sky is directly from the camera, I personally think the camera app that apple has as the default saturates some colours. |
skblakee
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Is it safe to say then that with the inbuilt apps that it is easier to handle photos than on other phones but that the iP4's cameras is not necessarily the best one on the market as the topic says?
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masada1971
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the theory that i phone is no1 camera phone is only yours,and you cannot manipulate or give title by yourself..is only your point of view and you cannot make others beleive so... 
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Nanu
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perhaps the photos are best seen/left on the retina display as they don't look any better than any other photographs taken by any other mobile phone with a 5MP camera that I have seen displayed on my PC monitor, I'd even go as far as to say I have seen better.
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buntoo
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On 2010-07-13 17:09:08, masada1971 wrote:
the theory that i phone is no1 camera phone is only yours,and you cannot manipulate or give title by yourself..is only your point of view and you cannot make others beleive so...
[ This Message was edited by: masada1971 on 2010-07-13 16:10 ]
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julias
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Sorry but not impressed with those at all The pictures taken with the E72 are far superior |
Bonovox
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LMFAO
Phone?? What phone?? |
Tom-Helge
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And where is the link to the full resolution of those pictures?
But i don't think you want to me to post my pictures that i have taken with my XPERIA X10, because those are better than the iPhone 4 pictures here.
EDIT: Nevermind, i'm gonna post one picture taken by my XPERIA X10 anyways. Just check this Picture out.
The picture might not be as clear as the pictures are from iPhone 4, but check how little noise there is on that picture from me. The iPhone 4 have alot of noises in the pictures it takes.
So the overall picture quality just looks better on the XPERIA X10.
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Bonovox
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What's wrong with the blue in 2 of them photos it looks like they have been drawn in by a crayon. Sorry but where & what exactly is different or better about the pictures here? I fail to see them as better than a DSLR or near to compact camera quality or better than every other camera phone on the market. The 3rd picture down there is blurring in the distance with the trees & no detail at all. My X10 is far better I am sorry to say to you & ruin your thread. But you put them up here for people to see & debate over you will get opinions. The truth is your judging them imo by the retina display correct me if I am wrong? And how is it the best? It has no Xenon flash & I still think the best(not judging by mega pixels)camera phone around still is the Satio for all round quality. You talk of uploading your pics on the iphone 4 to Face Book. So does half the touch screen mobiles out there today do the same it's nothing new Why did you not do a comparison thread to one or two other top camera phones instead with full size photos? Iphone 4 yes is a great phone but not the best camera phone on the market by a long shot
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-07-13 18:54 ] Phone?? What phone?? |
jj03
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agreed with bono. While they are ok, they are hardly 'the best'. I can think of quite a few handsets that, judging from the pics you posted, take far better pics than the iphone4. I was expecting a link with a quote from mr jobs sayin it is. .therefore it is. Lol. |
Barachus
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On this forum saying the iPhone is the 'best' at anything is like a red rag to a bull.
I am actually very disappointed in the lack of proper venom and raving detractions in the replies |
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Posted: 2010-07-13 14:17
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