I remember when the Apple Quicktake was a revolutionary new product. It was an odd, squarish thing that you held up to your eyes like a strange pair of binoculars and it took photos at a then-astonishing 640 by 480 pixels. It was bulky, though, and quickly replaced.
No one took pictures with their phones.
As soon as June of 2007 rolled around, the iPhone debuted with a 2 megapixel camera. It wasn’t as good as the point and shoot I still favored, so it stayed in my pocket (at first). More and more, though, the iPhone was with me when I wanted to take a picture, and my Minolta was not.
Each successive iPhone model increased not only the megapixel count, but the iPhone camera itself, from the lenses to the internal sensors, received update after update, until–honestly, who carries around a point-and-shoot anymore?
This week’s issue of Cult of Mac Magazine celebrates that fact with an entire volume dedicated to tips and tricks befitting the one camera we all have in our pockets at all times, giving you practical, technical tricks on all things iPhoneography. Cult of Mac’s own photography guru, Charlie Sorrel, weighs in with some choice technical advice on photography that applies across all cameras, iPhone or not, while Olloclip’s Michele Baker and Camera+’s Lisa Bettany drops some wisdom on how she got her best iPhone pictures.
Of course, we’ll have the usual Genius column and Best Apps and Media from the past week to share with you to, so head on in and enjoy the issue.
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
