subramanyam Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 An unusual story has popped up on MobileGuerilla claiming to have found the first photos from an Apple iPhone on the web. The search method seemed rather primitive... they simply searched for "taken with an Apple iPhone" on Google and found a set of Flickr images (now removed) tagged with the phrase. The phrase is automatically generated by Flickr based on the EXIF data from the camera itself. Now, this is certainly not proof that the images were necessarily taken by an Apple iPhone since EXIF information is easily editable. The images where then set to private and then deleted from the Flickr account. Again, this alone would not be particularly convincing, however, based on publicly available evidence, it's clear that the photos came from someone in the position to have access to an iPhone. As a result, it appears very likely the photos are authentic. Interesting EXIF info from one of the original images: * Camera Make = Apple * Camera Model = iPhone * Picture Orientation = rotated 90° (6) * Lens F-Number/F-Stop = 14/5 = F2.80 * Color Space = sRGB (1) * Image Width = 1600 * Image Height = 1200 * Unknown tag: Tagnum = 0xa500 ===> data = 11/5 * Compression = JPEG compression (6) So, the Apple iPhone does appear to encode orientation information (landscape or portrait) into photos based on whether or not the phone is held vertically or horizontally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFI Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Holy {censored}, its about time. I was waiting for this to come up in the news/rumours section....this news like 3 days old. Pretty much every site has this covered except here, until now. What gives I wonder? I read the entire story at Mac Rumours...and read the 100 somewhat replies. This shot looks genuine IMO. The camera resolution quality is not the best of the best in the cell phone industry by modern standards...but its much higher than pretty much 80% of the cell phones out now...which take web cam quality shots. I have a few Japanese friends...and let me tell you that those phones are atleast 5 generations ahead of North American cell phones in camera quality (yes that would include the iPhone's camera too). Those guys have phones that could take shots the resolution of a normal camera itself. By North American standards (which is pretty poor, and includes Canada, and US) the iPhone's camera quality is top notch...but by global standards...its pretty good, but not the best. But then again, if you take the size factor of the phone itself into account...its pretty impressive still. Im guessing iPhone's camera is around 2.5 MP, with that resolution and quality (1600x1200) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Is that meat? The first pictures from the iPhone are of some guy eating a piece of toast and of a rack of meat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 yea thats what i was thinking too Ramm........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 hhhahhahah, a meat packing facility, oh the memories and some creepy dude (or lady, cant really tell) eating some toast? hahaahhaahahahahha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 and some creepy dude (or lady, cant really tell) Definitely a dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Or a girl with some extra testosterone, which would account for the 5 o'clock shadow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 How in the world can we be for sure this is from an iPhone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 you can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 It's a f... phone. Why don't people search for uhm... phone calls instead of pictures??? To be honest I wonder why do I care at all... lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 there is no way a 2mp camera took that image of the guy eating the toast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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