{"id":2802,"date":"2010-06-27T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2802-iphone-4-photo-quality-for-a-point-and-shoot-snapper.html"},"modified":"2010-06-27T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:20:15","slug":"iphone-4-photo-quality-for-a-point-and-shoot-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2802-iphone-4-photo-quality-for-a-point-and-shoot-snapper.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 4 photo quality for a point-and-shoot snapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the photo quality on Apple\u2019s iPhone 4 good enough that I could leave my Canon IXUS 801S at home?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I think not. At least, that was my impression after taking a few snaps today. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Canon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb18.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and the iPhone 4:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb19.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>With the iPhone 4 you tap to focus. I took multiple shots of this flower from various distances, trying to focus it correctly, but it has a tendency to do a better job on the background foliage.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a snap of a record sleeve. Better for the iPhone, but still not great. Here\u2019s the Canon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb20.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and the iPhone:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb21.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that a dedicated camera takes better snaps than one built into a phone; and I still think the iPhone camera is excellent. But I\u2019ll keep packing the Canon in my bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the photo quality on Apple\u2019s iPhone 4 good enough that I could leave my Canon IXUS 801S at home? Unfortunately I think not. At least, that was my impression after taking a few snaps today. Here\u2019s the Canon: and the iPhone 4: With the iPhone 4 you tap to focus. I took multiple shots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2802-iphone-4-photo-quality-for-a-point-and-shoot-snapper.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple iPhone 4 photo quality for a point-and-shoot snapper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,47],"tags":[242,502],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon","category-iphone","tag-canon-ixus","tag-iphone-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}