iPhone 4 vs. Sea Dweller

[Nanuq]

Messing around with my new iPhone, trying out the camera. This is unretouched... straight from the little bugger. It's a LOT better than the camera on the last phone!

[Jkay]

There's a news piece from a few weeks back .. a pro photo studio wanted to show that it isn't necessarily your $$$$ camera that gives results ... so they shot an entire session with an iPhone on a tripod. Studio lights, professional model, post-processing done by their normal retouching house.

[highoeyazmuhudee]

good quality, still no substitute for an SLR, studio setting or not.

[dbutlerman]

Macworld Magazine just did something similar with their cover story. They did all the pictures in a studio but used the iPhone 4 as the camera - they also did all the post processing on the iPhone. http://www.macworld.com/article/153025/2010/07/iphone_cover.html

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[freddy333]

Looks good (for an iphone).

On a similar note, there is a tv commercial for a Panasonic Lumix p&s camera that, as it turns out, was shot entirely with the camera. They even did all the editing on the camera & the entire 30 second spot looks totally professional. Quite impressive.

[dbutlerman]

Here an Olympus along the same lines - shot with the same P&S as advertising. I am impressed http://www.petapixel.com/2010/05/10/olympus-pen-commercial-with-a-twist/

[ThinkBachs]

You could take a photo of her with a pin-hole camera and it would look great!

[Gorilladame]

Just got myself the new nex-5 from sony, it is my first real camera and I needed to get one as all my pics I posted so far totally sucked.

Conclusion: the camera is a dream. the pics are fantastic and it is really easy to use for a noob.

Here are some fooling around pics that I found quite impressiv...

[Dizzy]

Does the iphone have a macro setting or is it just all automatic??

Those closeups look pretty good.

[Jkay]

The iPhone 3Gs and newer have a touch focus, not permanent infinite focus. Touch the part of the image you want to use for metering and focus and it adjusts.