I must say that I’m pleasantly surprised with the camera in the iPhone 3GS. Having had several cell phones with a camera I didn’t expect much, especially not after having played with the camera in the iPhone 3G. But I was wrong, I got my iPhone two days before leaving for the US so I didn’t have a chance to play around with it before standing on US soil. Neither did I have a computer with me so there was little chance to check the result on a large screen until I was back home.
So when I finally got back home it was with very low expectations I downloaded the photos to my Mac … and I was surprised. Here are a few examples all taken with the iPhone (click for larger versions):
There are of course problems, in low light the quality degrades but that is to be expected. Here is a photo that was taken in low light
A couple of days ago I couldn’t resist making a comparison between the iPhone and my point-and-shoot, a Lumix DMC-FX33, and became even more surprised. Look at these two shots (both unedited):
The bottom one is the one I took with the iPhone – in fact I like the iPhone version better than the other.
No, the iPhone will not replace my Lumix or my Nikon D80 but it will complement them in a very nice way. You can find more of my iPhone photos from the US here (one is taken with my D80).
Let me finish with another iPhone photo from our garden.
I can’t say that I’m one of those persons who are constantly traveling. In fact I’m probably very modest in my travels with approximately 1 trip outside Sweden each year. That said, I have traveled with a number of different airlines – some which are really nice, some which are less nice.
Last week I had the opportunity to travel with US Air on 6 different flights, this was the first time I traveled with US Air and hopefully the last. I was amazed, of those 6 flight the crew on 5 were quite unfriendly and looked like we were disturbing them during work (they all looked angry) – some of my friends heard comments from the crew to other passengers that were quite unfriendly and you got the general feeling that you should be privileged that you were allowed to fly with them.
On the 6 hour flight across the US they didn’t offer any kind of free snacks, across the atlantic (8 hours) there was one movie (with bad sound and bad picture) that was shown to everyone (no individual video screens) – I don’t even remember when that happened the last time.
OK, in todays economic situation I don’t expect much, but this …it was actually very nice to get onboard the SAS plane for the final flight home – no free sodas or snacks but on a 50 min flight I don’t expect that – with a crew that was friendly and nice.
Next time I’ll make sure that I’m not traveling with US Air.
