Racking out the iPhone 6.

With a view to seeing what the superb camera in the iPhone 6 could do, and to better learn how to use it and conquer its limitations, I took it for a spin in San Francisco yesterday, and will be commenting on pluses and minuses over the next few days. I took some 177 snaps in one hour, which saw the battery use 40% of its power (the iPhone 6 was on all the time) and this was my route:

The number designates images taken; blank means just one.

No comment needed here; I just had to wait for a break in the traffic while praying they would not go away.

Given how my brain ‘sees’ in 35mm FFE (too many years with a 35mm lens on my Leicas!), I found that the field of view of the camera is much more like 28mm, as I was at first always too far from my subjects. I prefer 35mm to 28mm but when the camera is this good I’m not complaining.

iPhone 6, 1/260, f/2.2, ISO 32. Monochrome in LR5.

Removing so many snaps from the iPhone is made easy in iOS8. Go to Photos->Collections, select the date the images were made and Delete All. You really do not want to delete 177 images one by one ….