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First Pictures Taken With an Apple iPhone

mobileguerilla.com — Lots of questions were answered with the introduction of the iPhone back in January, but an important one still remains: how do the photos look like? I've been searching for "taken with an apple iphone" on Google for well over a month now and I guess it was worth it.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 29, 2007

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  • sohosid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Fake until proven otherwise because.

    The hottest new gadget this year, from a company with cast iron non-disclosure agreements...and the very first images taken with it appear on flickr? Yeah...right.
    FTA: "We also Googled the Flickr user, but we still have no idea if he's an Apple employee or just some lucky guy." Some lucky guy? What, you think he was wandering around Cupertino and just found an iPhone? The product is NOT RELEASED YET.........No-one has them, except Apple employees.
  • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This is way too easy to fake to be believed.
  • pjisback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is that a female?
  • caliform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4First of all, you can't hack a camera ROM, because it's, uh, ROM. You'd have to replace the chip containing the ROM.

    And yes, it's extremely easy to modify metadata. Did you notice that if you export images from Photoshop, they get tagged as being made with it as well? Well, it's that easy.
  • itchytooth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is it possible to alter the "Taken with _____ " in flickr's photo metadata? Or maybe someone hacked their camera to identify itself as an iPhone.

    If it's real, I have to say I'm somewhat impressed. Especially the first shot which, while the white balance is off, is rather clean for a camera phone.
  • norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Links to Flickr:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/473537926/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/470937255/
  • norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm ... it looks like the pictures have been set to private.
  • klawz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3QUOTE
    First of all, you can't hack a camera ROM, because it's, uh, ROM.
    /QUOTE

    Dude, step out of the 80s for a sec... very small amounts of ROMS now a days are really just ROMS... most of them are, you know, EEPROMS, etc. etc. etc. (wiki it yourself) --- Companies, especially a cell phone company, would be foolish to have pure ROMs now-a-days, simply because firmware updates, FIX human errors - simple enough? Now, hacking a ROM, as it's said, it really downloading an EEPROM (or pick and choose your flavor, see above), modifying it, and re burning it. So, yeah, hacking ROMs is possible, even IF it's really a READ ONLY MEMORY, it can be done, has been done quite a bit, and will continue to be done for quite some time (yes, Microsoft, yours too) - and like you say, you can easily replace the rom with your own EEPROM (or variance).
  • FregTK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, it is a man.

    ::shudder::
  • sexualaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@pjisback

    I don't *pause* know ?
  • itchytooth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When I open one of these in Photoshop, I see lots of editable metadata, but the "Camera data 1" field, where the camera make and model are found, don't seem to be modifiable.
  • itchytooth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's the first one http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/75/473537926ee73e03921oqh0.jpg - I didn't get the second.

    I wonder if my comment is what got it taken down?

    http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6457/picture8lw3.png
  • consonance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@klawz
    I think flash memory is more common than EEPROM, especially in consumer electronics. The concept is still, however, the same; you flash the ROM with an update, and voila.
  • unibeat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mirror
    http://www.mobileguerilla.com.nyud.net:8090/articles/2007/04/28/first-pictures-taken-with-apple-iphone.php
  • julian02392, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if it will have the same effects that "Photo Booth" has. That would be amazing :)
  • dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought it was rather eeen-teresting that the picture automatically rotated itself to the correct orientation when I pulled it up in Preview. The EXIF info shows that's it is from an Apple iPhone.
  • LucerinRed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3if its not dude, she has a wonderful 5 o'clock shadow
  • dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pictures or it didn't hap........oh wait.....
  • GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's not true. Most camera phones would have trouble, but not most cameras. It's a reality check that the iPhone is still a phone, not some piece of heaven that fell to earth. Camera phones are for quick snaps, not Pullitzer prize winners.
  • Maury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Because the second picture has very bright back lights, it is a difficult scene to photograph without flash. Most cameras would have trouble with this lighting combination. This picture is not a fair slam against the iPhone camera.
  • ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3That dude needs to get a haircut.
  • KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2why would anyone take those hideous photos to show the capabilities of the iphone? wouldn't you want to show some nice waterfalls, or landscapes, or something intersting. instead we get pictures of janet reno at a meat factory
  • Universal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here's a Google Cache of the now deleted Flickr page with the "Taken with an Apple iPhone." bit.
    http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:61jdjcP7n6wJ:www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/473537926/+%22taken+with+an+apple+iphone%22+site:flickr.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
  • unfiction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No no. I think it's just a fugmo woman.
  • ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Good catch normalkid

    "The Flickr account however belongs to an individual who can be tracked down to a LinkedIn profile which reveals that they are a Program Manager at Apple in the Consumer Electronics industry."
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4That's not a dude.
  • normalkid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://www.macrumors.com/2007/04/29/first-photos-from-apple-iphone/
  • zapa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I was expecting to see pics from the gay bar.
  • supermajic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+110min on digg and still pwned
  • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I think they come from different cameras. The difference in noise is too large. Yes, the bottom photo is a darker scene but the bright case lights should about make up for it.
  • AnotherName, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1worst.....digg "story"............ever.....................
  • fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1What is the news here? Is the camera in the iPhone better or different at all to the last 300 cameras in phones?

    PS. If buying an iPhone meant you had to live on jam on toast .... maybe you should have saved another few weeks :P

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