{"id":2958,"date":"2015-09-28T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:45:56","slug":"every-generation-of-iphone-camera-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/every-generation-of-iphone-camera-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Every generation of iPhone camera compared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As groundbreaking as its capture experience (and mere existence!) was, the 2-megapixel cam in the original iPhone was, we can now admit,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/WtfzTv4RtjR3XGsn9\">really godawful<\/a>; hence the heavy, pancake-makeup approach of the image filters of the day. I remember training myself to compensate for the profound shutter lag as if I was Luke Skywalker donning a blast helmet. It wasn\u2019t, \u201cHey kid, look at me [press shutter],\u201d but rather, \u201cHey kid, [press shutter] look at me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But progress has been swift &amp; amazing, and I can instantly visually carbon-date pics of my kids by the quality of the phone-captured shots. Now photographer Lisa Bettany has produced <a href=\"http:\/\/snapsnapsnap.photos\/iphone-6s-camera-comparison\/\">beautiful interactive side-by-side comparisons<\/a>\u00a0of every generation of iPhone camera. Talk about night-and-day differences (to say nothing of burst mode, HDR, going from zero video to optically stabilized 4k, and more).<\/p>\n<p>As for the future, let\u2019s hope that next year we\u2019re raving about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PrimeSense\">3D depth sensing<\/a>\u00a0enabling SLR-like background separation. Staying tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IQuan.jpg\" alt=\"Quan\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As groundbreaking as its capture experience (and mere existence!) was, the 2-megapixel cam in the original iPhone was, we can now admit,\u00a0really godawful; hence the heavy, pancake-makeup approach of the image filters of the day. I remember training myself to compensate for the profound shutter lag as if I was Luke Skywalker donning a blast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}