What it lacks in photo-friendly ergonomics, it makes up for in size and portability. On the main shooting screen, touching the screen with two fingers and spreading them apart will effectively zoom in to the center of an image. A sliding zoom control bar appears on screen. Continue to zoom in and out using touch screen gestures, or slide the zoom control bar left and right.
Not only is the 3. Keyboard and autocorrect blunders aside, the touch display is simple to use for camera operation. Tapping the screen to adjust focus and exposure is easily done, and photo review is seamless with flicking motions used to navigate between photos.
A basic wipe clean with the right cloth will keep the screen clear and usable. With the camera app in operation and the shooting screen live, a small icon at the corner of the screen is your shortcut to previously captured images. Editor's Rating. NEXT : Performance. All content posted on TechnologyGuide is granted to TechnologyGuide with electronic publishing rights in perpetuity, as all content posted on this site becomes a part of the community. Photo and video geotagging is of course supported, allowing location to be viewed in programs like Google Earth.
I got more consistent color with the iPhone 4S camera than the earlier model. That's partially because the iPhone 4S doesn't have the same tendency to drastically oversaturate as its predecessor did. My springtime shots, including one of customers getting ice cream from a Mister Softee truck, looked clean and crisp but weren't marked by the dramatic high contrast and overly bold color I got from the iPhone 4.
The iPhone 4S' extra megapixels also meant I could comfortably print these shots out to as large as 13x19 inches. As expected from a camera with a tiny chip and lens, sharpness fell off in the corners of my images, but it was really no worse than what you'd get from a point-and-shoot camera. Focus was not always reliable, even though we tapped on the subject beforehand.
The top shot of the girl shows sharp eyelashes, while the bottom shot is a bit softer in the face, despite the ISO 64 setting. As with the flash in the previous model, results vary dramatically: sometimes the flash blows out highlights on the edges of a photo while casting harsh light on my subject and other times it's too center focused, with the edges of a photo falling off into a vignette.
This issue, we surmised, is likely caused by the LED illuminating the iPhone camera's lens. The two are set side by side. Full HD. As a video camera, the bump up to full p HD was noticeable, especially if you plan to show your iPhone movies on a large high-def TV.
The iPhone 4S' software-based image stabilization helped steady our shaky clips -- which is more of an issue at p -- but we would've liked true mechanical image stabilization, mainly because it's so hard to hold an iPhone still for long periods of time. Sharing is caring. One advantage the iPhone 4S has over traditional digital cameras is the ability to quickly share photos over a cellular or Wi-Fi network.
There are also a plethora of apps to creatively tweak and share your photos. Instagram and Hipstamatic are still our favorites but there are tons of other great ones to choose from.
Part of the fun of shooting with a smart phone are apps like Hipstamatic, which can make this rather dull scene into something more dramatic. Apple has also added a few in-camera editing functions to the iPhone 4S via iOS 5x but, in our opinion, there could be a lot more. For instance, you can crop, rotate, remove red-eye or "enhance" a photo by touching the magic wand icon on the edit screen.
That's pretty paltry considering how much you can with do with just a few downloads from Apple's App Store, but maybe that's the point. This is a photography tool that grows with you as you add apps.
As to whether the iPhone 4S has improved its imaging skills enough to replace your dedicated digital camera, we'd still say no. There are just too many photographic limitations to this smart phone camera that no number of apps can correct. Once again, it's an apples -- so to speak -- to oranges comparison. Even though the iPhone 4S camera is one of the best smart phone cameras around, it's still a smart phone camera. If you want to capture truly great images, you'll probably still want a high-end compact camera or digital SLR.
But if you want to shoot very good images with an extremely mobile device that makes photo-sharing a snap, the iPhone 4S is still a good bet.
And is there anything wrong with owning more than one imaging device? We think not. Sharpness : The iPhone 4S's lens is moderately soft in the extreme upper right corner, but the other three corners are only slightly soft, and blurring doesn't extend very far into the frame. The center is quite sharp and contrasty. You can see from the dimmer corner crops that some light falloff is also visible, but it's not too bad. Pretty good performance here, and slightly better than the iPhone 4 we tested.
This is also an improvement over the iPhone 4's 0. While not as wide as the iPhone 4's lens, perspective distortion can still be an issue with closer subjects, as can be seen by the elongated mannequin head in our indoor portrait shots below. Chromatic Aberration : Chromatic aberration is negligible. There are hints of magenta and red fringing, but nothing to be concerned about. Macro : The Apple iPhone 4S's Macro mode produces images that contain good but slightly soft detail across much of the frame, though there is some additional softening near the edges.
Most lenses produce some corner softening at macro distances. Interestingly, the extreme top-left corner is sharp. Our 4S macro shot has some discoloration in the center, though it's not as dramatic as the 4's, but there are also some odd, greenish horizontal bands visible that we didn't see with the 4.
The minimum coverage area of 2. The iPhone 4S's LED "flash" provides very narrow coverage, even narrower than the 4's considering the longer focal length, resulting in flash exposures with a lot corner shading up close.
Flash color seems more neutral than the iPhone 4's, though, but still a bit cool. Color : Most iPhone 4S colors are oversaturated by small to somewhat high amounts average oversaturation is Hue accuracy has improved as well, with a mean Delta-C error of 5. The iPhone 4's color error was 6.
There are some mild to moderate shifts in some colors as well, but overall hue accuracy is pretty good, and we found the 4S's color to be more natural-looking overall than its predecessor's. Whites and grays are still shifted slightly toward green and yellow, though, indicating slightly inaccurate auto white balance.
Darker Caucasian skintones are sometimes pushed toward orange, while lighter skin tones are only slightly pink. The iPhone 4's skintones were very pink, so the 4S has improved here as well. Incandescent : The stock iPhone 4S provides no user control over white balance, however its auto white balance produced decent results indoors, though with a warm, reddish cast in standard incandescent lighting.
While a bit too warm, some may prefer this more natural-looking result than the iPhone 4's much cooler white balance for this shot. Resolution : Our laboratory resolution chart revealed sharp, distinct line patterns down to about 1, lines per picture height horizontally, and to about 1, lines vertically.
That compares very well to 8-megapixel digicams and is a noticeable improvement over the iPhone 4's resolution. Extinction of the pattern occurred at around 2, lines per picture height. Flash : We're not sure if Apple has rated the range of the iPhone's LED "flash," so we took a series of shots from 6 feet to 10 feet in 1-foot increments. At right, you can see the extremes of that test range. At 6 feet, the flash target was fairly bright, though the iPhone 4S raised ISO to , producing a very grainy image.
At 10 feet, the exposure was quite dim and out of focus despite the boost in ISO to , and even noisier as you'd expect. Obviously 10 feet is too much to ask from a tiny LED flash.
As you can see from the bottom left image, flash coverage is quite narrow and not very centered even at non-macro distances, though some of the corner fall-off is from the lens itself. We're impressed by the amount of detail even in the shadows and the background. The colors are vibrant and accurate, there are no artifacts.
There's plenty of praise we can give these pictures, but it's better to just go ahead and see for yourselves. The iPhone 4S camera samples have less noise and higher dynamic range than the iPhone 4. It's hard to really find anything to question about the iPhone 4S camera.
It's also better than the recently released Nokia N9. The iPhone 4S records p videos and the clips are stored in. MOV format with a mommoth 23Mbps bitrate or even higher.
Videos are shot at a smooth 30fps most of the time but he framerate drops to 26fps when the lighting isn't good videos shot in the dark still turn out very good. The framerate is very consistent, with lots of resolved detail and pleasing colors. We found no glitches or artifacts in the video and, believe us, we looked really hard. The iPhone 4S camcorder has continuous auto-focus. Something is missing though and we don't mean SloMo or Time Lapse videos. It's as simple as a lower resolution setting, p for example.
Sometimes you just want a quick shot of something as a reminder or for later reference - it doesn't have to be in brilliant full HD.
It should be no problem to store and should agree with even basic players. But it couldn't have been that hard to give users a choice and put a p quality setting in the camcorder.
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