Originally Posted by
pasopia
Thanks! I'll check out the Iceland blog, I'd love to ride there at some point.
The iphone is no 4/3 slr, but you can get some good results if you are careful. It also helps to have an app like camera+ to edit the photo. I love that you can do a bit off image editing in the phone and immediately upload it. Here's a photo I took on the way on the manhattan bridge with my iphone.
Iceland was a rough few weeks for me, the weather was awful. Here's a video of typical weather, I was riding into the wind!
NPR had a short piece about smartphones vs dedicated cameras. The conclusion was that smartphones are good enough for day to day snaps and win out for sharing applications and that cameras are still best for those holiday pictures you want to keep, but smartphones are getting better and better. As I emphasize gear weight reduction the iPhone is perfect as it combines so many functions into a single device and I'll accept the camera's limitations.