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Found Footage: Possible video taken by iPhone?
Could this possibly be the first video taken by an iPhone? Over at iPhone Matters, Gregory Ng posts that he received a copy of this video from an Apple Store employee in California. In the video, you can see what appears to be an iPhone appearing on the iMac screen as recorded by its iSight. The video is not the highest quality and Ng writes that the sender compressed the video before sending it over email. What do you think? Real or hoax?
Thanks to Hadley Stern
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Jack said 12:06PM on 5-25-2007
Fake. The camera phone (probably Sony phone or something) is inside one of those paper mockups.
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tsecam said 12:12PM on 5-25-2007
So fake. We all know iSights record frames mirroed (flipped) and the apple logo on that phone, and the position of the camera isn't reversed. The "Dude, what are you doing?" is completely different audio than the rest. Furthermore....who the hell would hold an iPhone like that?
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tsecam said 12:17PM on 5-25-2007
Sorry, its just photo booth that mirrors the image. But the Audio is still blatant.
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wtd966 said 12:21PM on 5-25-2007
Dude, what are you doing?
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Klemens said 12:27PM on 5-25-2007
Just pause at -4 seconds to the end. The screen shows the iPhone parallel lined up with the screen borders, but at the very same time the video he takes with the camera that he holds in his hand is angled significantly.
Fake.
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David said 12:31PM on 5-25-2007
Why on EARTH would an Apple Store employee be the first to leak a video? We all know they don't find anything out until the last minute. That's why they can never tell customers anything...because they DON'T KNOW! That's Apple's way of maintaining secrecy. And that's in addition to all the other technical reasons listed by other commenters above me why it's a fake.
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Dan said 12:39PM on 5-25-2007
Like David said: retail employees don't get their hands on a new product until the day it launches (perhaps the night before to set up). I used to work at one of the stores.
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jonas said 12:49PM on 5-25-2007
crappy video quality for such a big phone.
fake.
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Zizz said 12:53PM on 5-25-2007
I think this one may be real. I'm pretty sure that is the Mac store on University Ave. here in Palo Alto. I cruised by there last night after dinner while they were closed. They had some guys in suits and regular looking employees (black t's) inside. They were all huddled around in the back with a bunch of camera equipment, tons of extra photog. lights and even a boom mic. They were all huddled around, so I couldn't see much, but I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe they were shooting a training video about the phone or something...pure speculation.
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mark said 1:01PM on 5-25-2007
i literally smashed my palm against my forehead when that guy showed up holding the "ipod"
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Thayne Miller said 2:40PM on 5-25-2007
hahahaha that's so fake it's not even FUNNY. A good sign of a fake is that it just doesn't show enough to prove it's real. Think: UFO sightings with shaky cameras and blurry images..... *gah*
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Will Design for Food said 1:05PM on 5-25-2007
Fake...looks like the guy edited the video, using an iPod as the phone...and then had a voiceover added also at the end for "What are you doing." That's a pretty crappy fake also.
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cameron said 1:05PM on 5-25-2007
This is fake, the video on the computer doesn't match-up with the camcorder.
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mark said 1:04PM on 5-25-2007
AND i literally smashed my palm against my forhead when i read zizz's comment
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ThunkDifferent.com said 1:04PM on 5-25-2007
it may be the iphone, but lets hope not- it obviously lacks stabilization and a good director, i'm looking forward to see the real deal.
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Dennis said 1:23PM on 5-25-2007
If you look at the iphone, (the pictures on apple's own site) there's a LENS on the freggin' thing. The perspective of where the cameras LENS should be, from what is being shot doesn't match up.
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Aaron said 1:34PM on 5-25-2007
AHAHAHAHAHA! Someone's first foray into iMovie, eh? Fake. And a BAD one at that.
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Bob said 1:35PM on 5-25-2007
It was obviously the Zune 2.0.
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JJ said 1:51PM on 5-25-2007
Zizz is the one who made that totally lame ass video.
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punkassjim said 1:53PM on 5-25-2007
@Zizz:
Trust me, if the employees of Apple Store Palo Alto had an iPhone in the store (which I guarantee you they didn't), there would have been enourmous black tarps covering the entirety of the front windows. If you saw people huddled around with photography equipment at that particular store, odds are they were either doing general training stuff, or something similar. They do a lot of that there.
And speaking as a recently-quit employee of that location, the store in the video is not Palo Alto. The layout is entirely different.
BTW, the "what are you doing?" audio is quite possibly the worst idea anyone has ever had. If it weren't for that, I might have had to give this video a little credence. But no. It's crap.
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