The Best Camera is… An iPhone4?
July 24, 2010 by Joe Edelman
Filed under Photography, Ramblings
Even though I have said for years that the best camera is the one in your hands…I have to give Seattle Based commercial photographer Chase Jarvis credit for his recent book and web site The Best Camera.
Chase has not only proven the point beyond a shadow of a doubt, but he has published a book and created an international web community of shooters dedicated to creating art with an iPhone.
I recently received my brand new iPhone4 from Apple and eagerly set about testing out the new 5 Megapixel Camera and 720p HD video camera.
I guess I am showing my age, but indeed I am still fascinated this this little thing that fits in my pocket and allows me to talk to people anywhere in the world with no wires is capable of shooting such high quality images.
This camera… I mean phone… has a 5 megapixel camera that captures incredible detail, a built in LED flash that does amazingly well even at very close range (also doubles as a very bright flashlight – there’s an app for that!) and a 5X digital zoom.
What makes the camera WAY COOL in my opinion is an often overlooked feature. You can control where the camera focuses just by touching the screen. That isn’t the cool part. The cool part is that wherever you select for the camera to focus – it will also adjust exposure and color balance based on that selection. Think of the possibilities!
Here are two videos that I shot the first weekend I had the iPhone4. Both the videos and stills are shot with the phone and the videos were uploaded and created via the Animoto iPhone App. This was all done while on location for a three day photography conference and no computers were involved or harmed in the making of these videos.
Check them out and be sure to check back… I am going to create an iPhone image gallery and will update it regularly.
