Following on from the discussions about Dean Mouhtaropoulos’ decision to use a Panasonic to capture the Olympics, here’s further support for the ‘it’s the photographer, not the gear’ argument. Photojournalist, videographer and dpreview contributor Dan Chung has been capturing the Olympic experience with his iPhone. In conjunction with some binoculars, a clip-on Schneider lens and the Snapseed processing app, he’s been live-blogging from the games. The images are understandably small but present a fascinating, near-live insight into what’s happening in London. (From The Guardian)
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Apple has announced its latest iPhone model, featuring an 8MP back-illuminated CMOS sensor. The iPhone 4S features faster image capture (down to 0.5s shot-to-shot time and 1.1 second ‘time to first photo’), and captures more light as a result of the new sensor. It also gains 1080p video, is said to have better auto white balance performance and adds face detection for the first time. The 4S will first be available in the US, UK and five other countries on October 14th, with 22 more countries following two weeks later.