Rumor: New picture taken with 8MP camera of Apple's iPhone 5

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  • Reply 21 of 66
    Ha!
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  • Reply 22 of 66
    rob55rob55 Posts: 1,291member
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    Originally Posted by newbee View Post


    Because it is "evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way" ..... which is one of the meanings of compelling ... simple, no?



    The part I have a problem with is the "powerfully irresistible way". The author claiming this was shot by an Apple engineer at lunch isn't exactly what I would call powerful or irresistible. So for me, it's a picture of a plate of food with EXIF that can be faked and not really compelling. Now if the plate had an Apple logo on it, that might be.
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  • Reply 23 of 66
    matrix07matrix07 Posts: 1,993member
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    "Honey, is my whole ass in the picture, now" ? .....



    Blame Apple honey.
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  • Reply 24 of 66
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    ... Now if the plate had an Apple logo on it, that might be.



    If the plate had an Apple logo on it, that would be your clue that it was fake.
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  • Reply 25 of 66
    paxmanpaxman Posts: 4,729member
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    Originally Posted by sheff View Post


    O yea, if it was at work where is the apple logo on the plate? I don't know... this could be taken by anyone with any phone anywhere.



    Oh and should it be f24 instead of f2.4 or f2.8 instead of f28?



    The latter. f2.4 is quite fast for a zoom lens but not so much for a static lens, but f24 or f28 is ridiculously slow. I don't know much about cell phone camera lenses but it can't be f28. That's for sure.
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  • Reply 26 of 66
    rob55rob55 Posts: 1,291member
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    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    If the plate had an Apple logo on it, that would be your clue that it was fake.



    Thus the wink at the end of my comment.
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  • Reply 27 of 66
    is sea urchin any good? That looks so gross, but I'm curious lol.



    Anyways, I think I'd rather take IQ over MP. The newest camera I have does 20, and what I've found the larger sizes to be beneficial the most for is zooming in once the photo has been taken. It's amazing how after you zoom in entirely with the camera, how detailed objects get the farther away they are, and the bigger the image is (so you have plenty of detail.)



    anyways, 8mp camera will be a nice selling point of the ip5
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  • Reply 28 of 66
    paxmanpaxman Posts: 4,729member
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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post


    What's more, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, which is closer to that of a point-and-shoot than the iPhone 4's actual 3.85mm f/2.8," the report said.



    The effect of the lens size is dependent on the distance from the lens to the surface of the chip, and on the chip size so the comparison is not valid until we know more details. The lens being 2.4 instead of 2.8 means that it will be slightly better in lower light situations.



    Personally I would like to see the lens ever so slightly recessed. Mine got scratched in the first week.
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  • Reply 29 of 66
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    If the plate had an Apple logo on it, that would be your clue that it was fake.



    Also, when the image has caption that says anything like "this is not a fake."
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  • Reply 30 of 66
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    Also, when the image has caption that says anything like "this is not a fake."



    Or has an encircled "confidential" printed on the image.
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  • Reply 31 of 66
    al_bundyal_bundy Posts: 1,525member
    any chance this could have RAW image support? my wife has been bugging me for a DSLR and i don't want to buy on
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  • Reply 32 of 66
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    Originally Posted by chronster View Post


    is sea urchin any good? That looks so gross, but I'm curious lol.



    A few billion people in Southeast Asia consider it a delicacy, a culinary treat. Much of the sea urchin harvested from the west coast of the United States is sent abroad. The typical Westerner foodie will say its an acquired taste.



    Freshness is key. Good uni is really, really fresh.



    Aesthetically, its appearance is not so different than many Western foods like mashed potatoes, pureed vegetables or peanut butter. If you find uni gross, you probably have issue with large parts of the typical American diet.
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  • Reply 33 of 66
    b9botb9bot Posts: 238member
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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post


    A picture has surfaced online that is alleged to have been taken by an Apple engineer with an 8-megapixel camera from the still-unannounced fifth-generation iPhone.



    The data associated with the so-called "test photo" discovered by PocketNow states that it was shot with an iPhone 4, but also reveals that the picture, cropped to a size of 5 megapixels, was originally a much-higher resolution just shy of 8 megapixels.



    "What's more, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, which is closer to that of a point-and-shoot than the iPhone 4's actual 3.85mm f/2.8," the report said.



    However, the data could also be bogus, as the site noted it was recently duped by an image taken with an iPhone, then uploaded to an iPad using software that altered the EXIF data associated with the image.



    "We suppose that a similar scenario is also possible here," author Evan Blass wrote, "but there's one compelling piece of evidence which suggests that this is indeed a genuine iPhone 5 photo: it was supposedly shot by an Apple engineer eating his lunch at work."



    The purported iPhone 5 photo is bolstered by numerous rumors that Apple's next-generation handset will sport an 8-megapixel camera. This week, a new report claimed that Apple had tapped both Largan Precision and genius Electronic Optical to supply those lenses for the next iPhone.



    Photo allegedly taken by an Apple engineer with an iPhone 5. Click to see full-size.



    In fact, the supposed 8-megapixel shooter has been perhaps the only relatively consistent element in rumors leading up to the unveiling of the so-called "iPhone 5." Reports claiming Apple will adopt an 8-megapixel camera began surfacing earlier this year.



    Apple is widely expected to publicly unveil its next iPhone in the coming weeks at a press event. Numerous reports have pointed toward an October launch of the fifth-generation iPhone.



    I don't see how a picture proves that this was an 8 megapixel image and it came from an iPhone 5. Anyone writing you that can say that but can't prove it, so why bother posting something that you can't prove?
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  • Reply 34 of 66
    matrix07matrix07 Posts: 1,993member
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    Originally Posted by al_bundy View Post


    any chance this could have RAW image support? my wife has been bugging me for a DSLR and i don't want to buy on



    Extremely unlikely? RAW would be overkill.
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  • Reply 35 of 66
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by al_bundy View Post


    any chance this could have RAW image support? my wife has been bugging me for a DSLR and i don't want to buy on



    I would guess that the next-generation iPhone has 0.01% chance of having native RAW support.
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  • Reply 36 of 66
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    Originally Posted by b9bot View Post


    I don't see how a picture proves that this was an 8 megapixel image and it came from an iPhone 5. Anyone writing you that can say that but can't prove it, so why bother posting something that you can't prove?



    You've just shut down this site. Nice going.
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  • Reply 37 of 66
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by Rob55 View Post


    Don't you mean One Infinite Loop?



    Well we knew it was California by the avocado rolls.



    Why someone would claim it is shot with some camera yet strip all the meta data which would lend some credibility doesn't make sense.
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  • Reply 38 of 66
    Why isn't there meta or exif data in this picture? All it says is Quicktime 7.6.6
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  • Reply 39 of 66
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    Originally Posted by matrix07 View Post


    1/30 fps. No wonder it looks shaky.



    This wasn't a video. In other words, 1/30 s, not 1/30 fps.
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  • Reply 40 of 66
    As someone who lights stuff for a living, I'm a bit suspicious. In a "cafeteria" environment, I'd expect a down angle shot to reflect typical ceiling mounted "box shaped" lights. The reflective surface of this plate shows a very even RING of highlights on it's outer diameter. I'd expect that from a "flown softbox" lighting approach. That would also account for the very minimal and diffuse shadows from the food on the plate.



    Also, the camera angle is essentially perfectly square overhead to the subject rendering the plate as an ideal circle. That also usually means that the hand/ arm holding the camera would typically cast a diffuse shadow on the subject. Where is that? this kind of result is more typical of a ring light mounted at the camera lens (would better explain the round hightlights on the plate diameter, BTW. Not something you'd expect on a quick

    engineer in the cafeteria snap.



    So unless the cafeteria in question has VERY interesting overhead lighting, I'm gonna be skeptical of the story here.



    Not impossible, but all those physical clues make this kinda unlikely to my thinking.



    For what it's worth.
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