"4phun" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > AP News video begins with a close up of the accident caught by an
>> > iPhone. I had to replay this a couple of times to verify that it was
>> > really a close up of an iPhone screen at the very beginning. Picture
>> > good enough to be broadcast on commercial TV, that is the iPhone.
>>
>> Pity. If the bystander had a different phone, they could've shot video
>> as
>> well! ;-)
>
> Low blow!
>
> ;>)

Yeah, but I couldn't resist! ;-)

Seriously, I understand Apple's design decision there- no mobile phone
really takes "good" video by any standard. I suspect the iPhone could
probably do much better than most mobiles, but it still probably wasn't up
to Apple's standards, or reflected a level of quality they wanted associated
with their first foray into mobile telephony. It would've been nice,
however, if Apple had left that decision up to the end user. I've shot many
a low-res blocky video of my kids with my Nokia and WinMo phones that are
absolutely lousy quality (both technologically and artistically!) but they
captured moments that would've otherwise been lost since I didn't have a
"real" camera or camcorder with me at the time, so I'm very happy to forgive
the low quality in return for the ability to "relive the moment."