Love the idea of this iPhone 4 kickstand and tripod, the Glif. I helped fund it, too.
Posts tagged iPhone 4
iPhone 4 is now the top camera at Flickr
It was inevitable: The iPhone 4 is now beating out the Nikon D90 and other cameras as the most popular camera at Flickr. As Macworld notes: “According to Flickr’s stats, Apple gear also dominates the cameraphones category, with four out of five entries going to the iPhone 4, 3G, 3GS and iPod touch. Although Android phone outnumber iPhone sales, the HTC Evo 4G (number 4) is the only Android smartphone in the rankings.”
3 iPhone photography and camera apps for Verizon newcomers
OK, so you’re new to the iPhone, and you’re just figuring out how to set up your email, how to use apps, and so forth, with your Verizon iPhone 4. As you know, there are zillions of apps out there, and sometimes it’s hard to track down the best of them. When it comes to iPhone photography and iPhone camera apps, it’s probably best to install just a few to start.
Macworld iPhone Photo Contest
Macworld is having a photo contest to highlight the capabilities of the iPhone 4.
Here’s what they’re looking for:
We want to see what kind of amazing pictures Macworld readers have captured with the iPhone 4, so we’re having a photo contest. Pick a favorite shot from your Camera Roll, or go out and capture a fresh picture to submit. What we’re looking for are images that show your skills as a photographer, but that also demonstrate the iPhone camera’s strengths.
Interesting photo syncing changes with Photos app in iOS 4
I’ve noticed some interesting—and rather welcome—changes in synching photos with iTunes and iOS 4. In the previous iPhone OS, with my iPhone 3GS, the iPhone “optimized” images for the iPhone when you synced them (that is, when you transferred images over to your iPhone with iTunes). And “optimized” really meant downsized, as it turned your photos into low-res images.
From my testing with the iPhone 3GS, before iOS 4 came out, the iTunes photo syncing process transferred vertical images at 360 x 480 pixels and horizontal images at 640 x 480 pixels.
I didn’t like that all that much, as it meant I needed to keep images in my Camera Roll if I wanted to edit full-resolution photos with TiltShift Generator, Photoshop Mobile, or whatever else.
I assumed the same would be the case with iOS 4, with some tweaks. As it turns out, it’s not. Using the PhotoSize app, which I learned about from this post from Marty Yawnick at Life in LoFi, the syncing now brings your images over at a size of 1536 x 2056 pixels (or less, if the image was smaller). So iTunes doesn’t transfer your images back to your iPhone at full-resolution for the iPhone 4 (2592 x 1936), but at least it’s a lot better than what it was.
Problems with EXIF data on iPhone 4
The iPhone’s camera seems to have some problems with EXIF data, and it’s not such a big surprise: I’m pretty sure the same thing happened with the iPhone 3GS when it was released. Here’s the issue: For the iPhone 4, the EXIF data seems to list the camera model as “iPhone” rather than “iPhone 4.” When I first got my iPhone 3GS, I had the same problem. I only discovered this recently, when I was categorizing/sorting my photos by EXIF data, and realized some of my iPhone 3GS photos—the ones from when I first got that phone—weren’t labeled as being from that camera.
A thread at Flickr addresses this issue, as it’s causing problems for Flickr in categorizing photos from the different iPhone models.
Check out this chart (also shown below, as it looked today), which seems to show hardly any photos on Flickr taken with the iPhone 4 (certainly not the case):
Awesome video how-to for an iPhone 4 tripod
Here’s a completely awesome video, from indie film/video director Kyle Roberts, explaining how you can make a tripod for your iPhone 4. I’m not really sure I’m up for this project, but the video’s really fun.
“The upgraded display is one of the features that redefines the iPhone for me. The camera is the other.”
Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
