In this episode it’s Marc Sadowski and Matt Hoffman holding down the fort while Keith Tharp is away in Cancun. How will these two brave the sub zero temperatures in New England while Keith basks in the warm sun in the South? Find out! Joseph Ferreira fills in on this episode and the team talk about a whole lot of iPhone rumors and goodness.
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After listening to you spend a fair amount of time discussing how you want full manual control on the iPhone camera I feel it important to mention somthing that all of you failed bring up.
Full manual control is not a software issue on the iPhone is is a hardware limitation.
The iPhone has a fixed aperature. The iPhone 5 for example has a fixed f2.4 aperature. If you are at all failure with the inside of an iPhone the entire camera unit is about 1/4 inch square. That simply is just to small to put in the mechanics to move an adjustable aperature blade. I don’t see Apple making the phone thicker so that the camera could have a adjustable aperature when only 1% or less of iPhone users are going to use.
Hi Zak,
Thanks for listening to the show,
I do we believe we have mentioned that the iPhone is equipped with a fixed aperture within several of our episodes.
We are completely aware of it. Apple went to 2.4 with the 4S, prior to that they were 2.8.
Maybe “Full Manual” is not the correct term, but I’m not sure what else you would call it. We are hoping for full control over the elements of exposure that we can in fact control, those being the shutter speed ans ISO. These are obviously firmware constrictions that Apple has held the reins on. The reason being, as you eluded to, the general population doesn’t care so much about that control as they do about getting good pictures. Apple has steered the firmware to default to the lowest ISO possible and adjust shutter speed from there, the goal being cleaner pictures. Camera shake and motion blur can subsequently be blamed on user error or situational limitations.
When we refer to “Full Manual” control, we are hoping to have the opportunity to decide that we’d rather have a higher ISO in favor of a faster shutter speed when the situation presents itself. The iPhone 4S & 5 can handle a few bumps in ISO and still produce clean pictures, so at an afternoon ball game why not bump the shutter speed.
I’d say I’d be happy with priority modes for shutter or ISO, but there could also be the occasion for creative departure from “Correct Exposure”.
Anyway, thanks again for listening to the show.
-Keith
Wow thanks for featuring my photo, patience. What an honor. Glad to be connected to the tinyshutter comunity.
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Jeffrey Simpson
There is a really cool app called Space Paint which has all kinds of cheesy nebulae that can be applied to images and then can have parts painted out.
Hey Robert, I love Space Paint! I usually check that app out too for all of my “nebula and planetary” needs!