Many great things for photographers
First, the iPhone is yet another example of good interface design from Apple. They may be paired with America’s worst cell provider – AT&T – but 98% of those sign-ups this weekend managed to get service. I was one of those. All you do in the store is buy the device. Thereafter, you enable it yourself at home using the latest version of iTunes.
The iPhone comes fully charged. Hooray for that!
After you go through this, and all your movies, songs, contacts and web bookmarks are in the iPhone, PC users will look around and think “Let’s see, I have an iPod and now this wonderful iPhone. What on earth am I doing with a PC in the home?” Indeed.
For photographers there’s much more here than the miniscule built-in camera, whose lens can be seen here on the back of the casing:
Here’s how your iPhoto library looks after import – ‘Camera Roll’ designates snaps taken with the iPhone. I set up an album in iPhoto with some favorite pictures and told iTunes to limit its import to that:
Finger touch any library of images and you get a contact sheet display:
Finger touch any item and you get full screen:
Rotate the iPhone 90 degrees and the picture flips to landscape:
Prefer to import pictures from Aperture? No problem:
Given the truly magnificent screen on the iPhone, the clarity of the images is striking. There can be few finer devices for displaying your pictures to friends or clients than the iPhone. Flip through images by simply dragging your finger across the screen.
More in Part II.