When Steve Jobs announced the 5 Megapixel camera at WWDC, some people immediately shot it down since many competitor smartphones have a minimum of 5 Megapixels, many 8 or higher. But then Steve pointed out that it’s not all about the megapixels these days.
He was careful to mention during the iPhone’s introduction that image quality also depends on other factors, and not solely the number of megapixels. He said the iPhone’s backside-illuminated camera sensor with large pixel sizes allows it to deliver excellent image quality under normal and low-light situations.
As part of its promotion page, Apple has posted a number of images which they say have come directly from the iPhone 4 and haven’t been touched up.
Due to the high resolution of the original pictures I can’t upload them fully to my site, so the ones you see below are scaled down, but you can view the full ones here
Gizmodo decided to exam these photos and see what was really going on. They had a look at the meta data included with the pics, and gathered the following opinion.
The performance under obviously optimal light is very good. The processing leans a bit to over-saturation and over-exposure, which is not a bad thing. Nikon goes for a similar image processing treatment in their cameras.
However, keep in mind that this image doesn’t confirm Apple’s claims about higher ISO and better performance under low light conditions, which is supposed to be a lot better thanks to the bigger backlit sensor. We will have to wait to see this in our review.
They certainly do look like high quality pictures, it would be interesting to compare them with the likes of the HTC Incredible and other superphones out there. But let’s not forget the iPhone 4 is capable of HD Recording!
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