[D3mon]

Hey everyone,

I'm maybe looking to finally join the iPhone revolution and get a 3GS, right now I have an old(ish) Sony Ericsson K850i, sure it's not the best phone in the world but it's gotten me by.

My question is how does the 3GS camera hold up compared to say the K850i's (if anyone has owned both i'd love to hear from you!)?

Thanks for any help that you might be able to give me!

[Flamehearted]

I've never owned the Ericson but the camera on the 3GS is pretty decent - certainly better than the 3G. It is 3mp and has auto focus with the abiliy to tap the screen to focus.

[kdc]

its decent enough but its not a camera phone... its a phone with a camera.. if you want a phone specifically because it can take photos you're better off with the c905 or something similar. I've had a k800i and to be honest there's not a great deal of difference, the video on the 3gs is definately better tho.

[Aweb]

here's a pic of a rose in my garden

http://www.fadeware.net/pix/IMG_0003.JPG (1.1MB)

I've not done anything with the pic or resized or anything

[Tall_Paul]

Originally Posted by D3mon

Hey everyone,

I'm maybe looking to finally join the iPhone revolution and get a 3GS, right now I have an old(ish) Sony Ericsson K850i, sure it's not the best phone in the world but it's gotten me by.

My question is how does the 3GS camera hold up compared to say the K850i's (if anyone has owned both i'd love to hear from you!)?

Thanks for any help that you might be able to give me!

I now have a 3Gs and previously had a K850i

The camera on the Sony is pretty good, the main thing you'll notice is the lack of flash on the iPhone, I used the K850i to take snaps on a night out occaisionally and they were good quality, nearly as good as a basic compact camera, mainly thanks to the flash. The iPhone isn't awful in typical darkish bars though, it'll still take recognisable pictures from what I've experienced

In good lighting, I'd say they are very similar, they both have autofocus, but I think the iPhone video quality is better

[Tall_Paul]

Originally Posted by Aweb

here's a pic of a rose in my garden

http://www.fadeware.net/pix/IMG_0003.JPG (1.1MB)

I've not done anything with the pic or resized or anything

Shame it's not quite in focus

If were going leafy, here's one that is in focus (and using the tap to focus anywhere on the screen), it will have been compressed a bit by photobucket

[Aweb]

Originally Posted by Tall_Paul

Shame it's not quite in focus

well i pressed to focus but i must of spazzed out or something
But it doesnt look that bad :D

[Flamehearted]

Originally Posted by Aweb

here's a pic of a rose in my garden

http://www.fadeware.net/pix/IMG_0003.JPG (1.1MB)

I've not done anything with the pic or resized or anything

I really like this picture and the quality is noticably better than the 3g.

[D3mon]

Thank you so much to everyone so far! (especially those that have provided pictures)

I wouldn't say im looking for a digital camera replacement. It would just be hard going from taking the occassional "snap" of a 5MP camera down to a 3.2 but I can see from the pictures provided that it's not such a big issue.

Would anyone happen to have some "low light" images that they've taken with the camera?

Once again thanks to everyone so far

[berkeley384]

Please excuse me, maybe I expect more from a camera than others do, but ive taken as good a pictures on my 3G as either of those and the second one cannot be be classed as being in focaus. Anyone who knows any of the absolute basics of photography can see that the immediate foeground is clear but as you look in to the back of the picture it becomes blurred indicating a small F Stop (large apeture setting) for an auto matic camera I would ecpect this picture to be entirley in focus , long story short what Im saying is that this camera ain very good !

Sorry its only my opinion based on the photos provided

[Tall_Paul]

Originally Posted by berkeley384

Please excuse me, maybe I expect more from a camera than others do, but ive taken as good a pictures on my 3G as either of those and the second one cannot be be classed as being in focaus. Anyone who knows any of the absolute basics of photography can see that the immediate foeground is clear but as you look in to the back of the picture it becomes blurred indicating a small F Stop (large apeture setting) for an auto matic camera I would ecpect this picture to be entirley in focus , long story short what Im saying is that this camera ain very good !

Sorry its only my opinion based on the photos provided

Not sure how you mean that it's not in focus? The exif info in the photo shows the aperture as f2.8, and on any camera, with the main subject that close to the lens, the background will be blurred at that aperture. You need an aperture of at least f16 to get the whole background and foreground in focus. Looking at a the few photo's I've taken with the iPhone, they are all at f2.8 which would suggest that it's fixed to that aperture, with the shutter speed and iso settings altering dependent on current lighting. I've done a fair bit of photography and own a Nikon D70 DSLR, which obviously the iPhone doesn't even get close to!

Of course there isn't going to much (if any) difference between the 3g and 3gs, and there is only 1 megapixel between them, but for a camera phone with a tiny sensor and extremely small optics, it's pretty good

[mr.manchester]

Heres a pic I took, again unmolested in any way....

Miles better than my old 2G

[supergeek]

lol nice pic of the dogs, i'll be able to add to this thread tomorrow

[Pug72]

Here's one I posted up when I 1st got the phone in another thread.

[supergeek]

that last pic looks really nice! Unforunately my 3gs is still charging so I can't go outside to take any, so i took one of my computer lol

First thoughts are it looks pretty nice. Not the best phone camera i've ever seen, but a definate improvement over the 3g. Should be able to take outdoor shots really well

[berkeley384]

Originally Posted by Tall_Paul

Not sure how you mean that it's not in focus? The exif info in the photo shows the aperture as f2.8, and on any camera, with the main subject that close to the lens, the background will be blurred at that aperture. You need an aperture of at least f16 to get the whole background and foreground in focus. Looking at a the few photo's I've taken with the iPhone, they are all at f2.8 which would suggest that it's fixed to that aperture, with the shutter speed and iso settings altering dependent on current lighting. I've done a fair bit of photography and own a Nikon D70 DSLR, which obviously the iPhone doesn't even get close to!

Of course there isn't going to much (if any) difference between the 3g and 3gs, and there is only 1 megapixel between them, but for a camera phone with a tiny sensor and extremely small optics, it's pretty good

Your right, I did not know that the F Stop was so low, I agree at 2.8 i would expect the background to blur, but in that picture even the back of the leaf was going out of focus, really for a shot like that I would use about 4-5 so that I could keep my main object in focus, it would annoy me if each close up shot I took blurred the main object, but then Im assuming this would happen and it absoloutly might not.

More than anything I was trying to stress that any claims that the camera is ahuge leap from the 3G are a little OTT, whilst I agree it will be better as you rightly say its only a 3MP camera with a small lens on a phone, its never going to win awards