The iPhone’s camera

June 24th, 2008

I’ve never been a fan of cameras on phones – it’s clear now that I’m wrong about this just like I was wrong about many other technology trends: stand-alone point and shoot cameras will be replaced by the ones on phones in the next few years. I’ll probably take more photos as a result but it’s not a development I’m terribly excited about.
Having said that I am disapointed with the camera quality on my iPhone – most cell phone cameras are reasonably crap compared to my old Canon Ixus – some 5 years old and still taking perfectly great photos. As far as I can tell from my mostly disinterested overview, the Nokia N95 is one of the best camera phones available and it still looks crap compared to my very old camera.
However that does not excuse the abysmal quality of my iPhone camera. Daring fireball comments on a list of missing features in the new 3G phone and one is the camera which stays the same as the existing camera. I quite like to snap pictures of new contacts and add them to my address book but even for this rather arbitrary purpose the iPhone camera is crap – there’s no excusing this – they should simply leave it off rather than including it and just annoying me.

http://daringfireball.net/2008/06/tradeoffs

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