Comments on: Why the next iPhone absolutely needs a better camera

By: i4tips

i4tips — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:22:41 +0000

Thank you for sharing !!!!

By: Ruth Johnson

Ruth Johnson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:08:29 +0000

In general, the small sensors and optics in all ultra-compact digital cameras lead to some optical quirks (such as barrelling), chromatic aberrations, over/under-exposure in bright sunlight/shade, and underpowered flashes. That’s intrinsic to the size of camera, and vendors try to correct these effects in their on-board processing. My opinion is that Canon does a good job of correcting for these issues and the Elphs including the SD1200 take very good photos for their size.

By: i

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:35:41 +0000

needs xenon flash. double led doesn’t cut it

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By: Snotty

Snotty — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:15:42 +0000

The greater concern for any camera – be it mobile, point and shoot or SLR is quality. The balance is in both optics and capture. Resolution is far flung second (or third…fourth… etc) concern.

As has already been pointed out the iphone is a substantially more popular mobile camera device than its market share would seem to indicate. Again, as has been discussed this is probably just icing on the cake for Apple execs… it is outside of their core business.

While an upgraded camera for the next gen iPhone would by no means be unwelcome I hope it comes in the form of autofocus, sensitivity (without blowing out ISO levels) and quality over resolution.

Another question, and adimittedly from someone who doesn’t use twitter and is a (relatively) irregular user of facebook etc is the need for high resolution images for such sites – particularly with the relatively ridiculous price of mobile data in Aus.

Surely a mobile camera phone (5 megapixel Nokia or not) is only a secondary camera anyway. If you want to capture higher resolution images for prints (etc) a dedicated image capture device is the way to go. We all understand that, and I think Apple does too.

Just my 2c.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:48:11 +0000

More megapixels doesn’t mean better pictures. Without increasing the quality of the lens and/or the sensor, more megapixels will just mean more noise.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:13:04 +0000

DEFINITELY, yes. It’s a sad, little camera, really. If Apple can make an iPod as small as the newest Shuffle, SURELY they can manage a camera than can take cleaner, sharper images into a next gen iPhone.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:21:20 +0000

I reckon that Mr Gadget doesn’t represent the majority of people who use an iPhone, or any mobile phone. I don’t think taking photos is a major reason for buying a phone.

Life-photo-journaling and stuff like that is a niche thing. But Apple is trying to make the iPhone accessible to as many people as possible. It certainly has broad appeal to many different types of people. They’d be fools if they upgrade the camera at the expense of other features that are more useful to most people – like size and weight.

By: KM Tee

KM Tee — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:27:18 +0000

the number of pixels is not the problem. take the same picture with a 3/5M pixel phone all things being will not yield a better picture. try it with 12 or 20Mpixel cameraa yourself.

what will help ::
1) faster sensor .. so that we can those pictues of our kids. they aare always moving or can’t stay still for more than a few sec. the pictures are always blurry.
2) better optics. pictures are generally very distorted.
3)better software for the camera.

thats about it really. if we have those three we will have a much better experince taking pictures with a phone..

it the moment that counts.

By: Daniel Ho

Daniel Ho — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:18:46 +0000

YES PLEASE! One of my pet peeves is that the iPhone camera is so crappy. There is no reason for it these days when you look at the competitors.

Though I use it on stuff that I want to share on Twitter etc, I’m FORCED to carry a second camera for everything else. Irritating for everyday use.

I don’t need much higher pixel count, but rather better quality. Possible with the tiny speck of a lens?