The iPhone 4 integrates an LED flash into the 5MP camera’s lens, but it’s neither big nor particularly bright. Enter the iFlash, a little dongle that snaps onto your iPhone’s Dock Connector and triggers when you take a picture.
Except to what end? The idea here is to supplement your iPhone 4’s LED flash with something beefier, like the way you can buy an external flash for an SLR camera. The problem is that those latter types of strobe have a lot more capability than the iFlash, not least of which is the ability to bounce the flash off of a wall or a ceiling, resulting in a more natural shot.
If you’re taking a picture with your iPhone 4 and the built-in flash isn’t resulting in an attractive image, the iFlash isn’t likely to improve matters. If you really just want to turn every single person at the dance club into a pale-skinned, red-eyed vampire next time you’re out, though, the iFlash is attainable for £19.99.
[via Technabob]
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12 responses to “Supplement Your iPhone 4’s LED Flash With iFlash”
“The iPhone 4 integrates an LED flash into the 5MP camera’s lens, but it’s neither big nor particularly bright. ” What’s up with that and the picture in the article? While it’s true the iPhone 4 flash might not be very good it’s not built in to the lens, it’s separate from the lens sitting 1-2 mm to the right of it, strangely enough it’s not on the picture up there…
The iPod Touch 4g and the iPad 2 have cameras with no flash. Do you think it’ll work on them?. It could make a big difference!
I know that the flash on my iPhone 4 is pretty bright… But this would help any mobile phone I would think. The only thing that concerns me (as a photographer) is that if another flash is added and meant to be used with the built in camera app on the iPhone the exposure will be all out of whack… If you add more light to a camera without having the ability to either A. Tell the camera that there is more light so that it adjust the shutter and f/stop settings or B. Enable the ability to manually manipulate the the the settings yourself. If this iFlash comes with an app that you download to use as an alternative to the built in camera app that compensates for the extra light… Then I’m all for it. But until I know more or am able to test it myself I really don’t know which way to go on this one.
Amazon has this for 12.99
I DOUBT it, Apple always miss the big thing from time to time.
Ghats because that phone is a 3G or 3GS.