My thoughts on the issue: The iPhone’s camera has no moving parts, so all of the focusing/contrast stuff is done via SW algorithim. That code must have been improved in the 2.x.x fimrware version, which seems to have introduced a bug.
Myron: Yeah, I’ve had this happen many, many times. I think your assumption that it was updated and introduced a bug is correct. I’m not sure if I want them to remove it though.
I’ve had a similar thing happen once or twice with my iPhone too.
Behold: http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0465tt6.jpg
So I took a second shot immediately after:
http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0466ua4.jpg
I have only seen this since the 2.x.x firmware update.
And we’re not the only ones:
http://www.natashascorner.com/2008/08/07/iphone-photo-artifact/
My thoughts on the issue: The iPhone’s camera has no moving parts, so all of the focusing/contrast stuff is done via SW algorithim. That code must have been improved in the 2.x.x fimrware version, which seems to have introduced a bug.
Myron: Yeah, I’ve had this happen many, many times. I think your assumption that it was updated and introduced a bug is correct. I’m not sure if I want them to remove it though.
Flickr has an iPhone cubism group dedicated to these photos.