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Cheap Camera, Interesting Shot

Believe it or not, the photo below hasn’t been Photoshopped:

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The guy who took the photo says:

The cheap CMOS sensor of an iPhone does not expose the whole thing at once, it scans from left to right. If you take a picture of something that moves very fast (like an airplane prop) you can get some crazy pictures out of it since each column represents a slightly different time.

This oddball-but-cool effect is reminiscent of some of the distortions you see with scanner photography (for some examples, see this page).

Maybe it’s time to pull out those camera phones and start snapping pics of oscillating or rotating objects!

81 replies on “Cheap Camera, Interesting Shot”

so… iPhone is cool one more time! it adds cool effects and expands your creativity. It does amazing work. With one touch of screen you can stun your friends and lots of internet users in the moment! F A N T A S T I C! Another super-feature!

The propeller is turning clockwise as you see it in the picture. The little black strip near the hub of the prop is a deicing boot that is on the leading edge.

it’s an effect caused by a rolling shutter.
if they had used a sensor with global shutter this would not have happened.
it’s a limitation of the sensor, if you like to see it as a feature, be my guest apple fanboi

I know this sounds stupid but how do some of the propellor things end up not attached to the center thing that spins them? I understand that it captures the image in bars but how would it be able to distort it so it became unattached? Wouldn’t it just end up with a bunch of little propellor pieces all unaligned but still in a circle? Somebody please help me understand this so I don’t feel so dumb.

[…] Bovenstaande foto is dus echt! Niet ge’photoshopped’ !  Door de goedkope sensor van de iPhone camera wordt niet het gehele beeld in een keer gescand maar in gedeeltes. Als er dus een foto wordt gemaakt van iets wat snel beweegt kan je dus een vreemde maar fraaie foto krijgen zoals hierboven. Je hebt dus helemaal geen dure camera nodig voor mooie effecten! Via GlobalNerdy.com. […]

Foto interesante con la cámara cutre del iPhone…

Lo creais o no, la foto no ha pasado por Photoshop. El tipo que hizo la foto comenta: "El sensor CMOS barato de un iPhone no expone todo de una vez, sino que escanea de izquierda a derecha. I haces una foto de algo que se mueve muy rápido (como l…

I don’t believe you… If it really has been taken with an iPhone then post the original picture. It has no apple footprint if you look inside it. All pictures that are taken from an iphone have this string somewhere in it: “£Apple iPhone”.

Yours doesn’t….

Nice though…

Best Regards,
monoco.

Blah blah blah iPhone. Christ on a tortilla you fan boys are pathetic.

This bug occurs with every cmos based camera made. Well… cheaply made. Anyone who’s taken a picture with a camera phone, ANY FUCKING CAMERA PHONE, from a moving vehicle will tell you that.

Mac bigots are so much like religious zealots it’s kind of scary. Another feature my ass.

Aw, is Michael kind of threatened by the Apple juggernaut as he watches Microsoft flounder and fail and crash in the marketplace? BOO HOO!

Michael, I think you missed the rather obvious humour in some of these comments lol

Cue a spate of look at the fcuk’d photos I can make with my iPhone and perhaps a few Darwin award candidates :p

The mac fanboy haters are far more passionate than the mac fan boys! It’s almost like they are the technogeek equivalent of homophobes, disguising their own self hatred for being secret fan boys of their own computer junk.

@Michael: “This bug occurs with every cmos based camera made. Well… cheaply made.” Tell that to the makers of the RED camera. Not exactly cheap, but still a CMOS sensor. This camera is in greater and greater use in film and TV all the time.

@ Monoco: The church didn’t believe Galileo either. Galileo was right. You are wrong.

@ Everyone arguing whether it is a bug vs. feature: It is neither or either, depending on your perspective. Is it a bug that paint brushes don’t photorealistically depict a subject in any painting on which they are used? The rolling shutter is a *limitation* of the CMOS chip, but since it is there by design, it can’t be considered a bug. Again, it is there by design.

@ Man: Thank you for being right and not being stupid.

@ Stephen Kelly: Good question! Also a much funnier topic of discussion.

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