Comments on: Apple iPhone 3G S camera gets some major upgrades, still lame

By: Marcos

Marcos — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:37:19 +0000

I’m no physicist specializing in optics, but I’m pretty sure that the autofocus feature is not simply a software thing. I’m trying to figure out how it works though (are there any moving parts in there?)

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:29:43 +0000

Agreed; 3 megapixels is perfectly fine for a camera phone; I’m not expecting a Nikon D3x to be built into it. A decent lens costs as much or more than the price of the phone. From the samples I’ve seen, the 3GS appears capable of taking perfectly decent pictures for a camera phone. 3 MP is perfectly adequate for web use, which is what the vast majority of pictures shot with the phone will be used for. Is anyone going to try to make a 16×24 print using their iPhone?

I’ll also agree with Gareth’s comment about more pixels not necessarily meaning higher quality. Consumer point and shoot cameras have actually declined in quality in recent years, IMO, because they’re trying to pack a huge number of pixels onto a tiny sensor strictly for marketing purposes.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:03:07 +0000

Why would you want to push more than 3 Megapixels onto a sensor the size of a pea? You’re not going to get an increase in quality — probably the opposite, in fact — so what’s the point?

It’s a fairly major step up from the original camera, but is by no means perfect or brilliant. What do you expect from a phone camera with its tiny optics so close to its tiny sensor? You really think Megapixels == Quality still?