Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips and tricks, iPhone 101
Photographers and the iPhone
AppleMatters has published a great list of their top ten ways photographers can benefit from the iPhone. From sharing your portfolio on-the-go to note taking, it's a good list. My favorite is the example of a wedding photographer who keeps a sort of "check list" of shots to get (grouped shots, individual shots, etc.) as a reference on his phone. We've seen people use the iPhone's camera to create to-do lists, share instructional videos and more. On a recent car shopping expedition, I made a gallery of all the vehicles I test drove for reference and comparison at home.
What's your favorite uncommon use of the iPhone?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bradjward said 9:37AM on 7-01-2008
Don't remind me. I just wish I had one still.
http://26dayswithoutaniphone.com
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dan said 9:43AM on 7-01-2008
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AT&T: 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net
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Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com
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mr. Obsession said 9:58AM on 7-01-2008
Use it to snap wine and cheese labels from the varieties I enjoy...never had an effective analog version.
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Bob said 10:02AM on 7-01-2008
I take pictures of all of the price tags at Home Depot for different types of lumber, so when I'm figuring out cost for a DIY project, I can estimate costs more realistically.
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Jon said 2:00PM on 7-01-2008
I do this too. At HD and at Costco. Often walking down an aisle something will catch my eye and I'll snap a photo of it. That was I can go home to research it and think about it for a couple weeks before buying it.
Henri said 10:13AM on 7-01-2008
I use it to show my interactive panorama's using CubeWorld
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SwissFreek said 10:24AM on 7-01-2008
I did the snapping photos thing when I was shopping for houses to rent.
I did the Home Depot thing mentioned above when I bought some bolts and screws that didn't have labels on them. I wanted to scan the screen at the self-checkout but my picture wasn't good enough. Going to keep trying, though, I'm sure it can be done.
Also used it to show the folks at BestBuy my email receipt when I ordered an in-store pickup, and they WERE able to scan the barcode on that email to ring it up at the register.
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jimboblives said 10:10AM on 7-01-2008
Obvious, but still useful and a "3-in-1" solution: iphone as a functional paper weight on the desk at work that doubles as a music player to support the creative workflow AND an easy way to show off fanboyism to my workmates.
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Steve in Denmark said 10:12AM on 7-01-2008
Have you ever compared the iPhone with the data plan for a pencil and a piece of paper?
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mr. Obsession said 10:43AM on 7-01-2008
No one here has calculated those numbers.
How about you run that totally unrelated statistic and let us know how it turns out?
*doink*
Steve in Denmark said 11:05AM on 7-01-2008
Well, the pencil I 'borrowed' from IKEA actually. The back of an envelope came free in the post this morning and the 32Gb memory in my head seems to have been thanks to my parents. As a great man once so rightly observed; no charge.
I do take a picture of it all on m(i) phone - just so I don't feel left out, you know?
tuaw said 12:25PM on 7-01-2008
I'm just hoping somebody comes up with a little app that uses the GPS and easily lets a photographer grab "location stamps" which later get sync'd up to the photos he takes.
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JMajors said 10:26AM on 7-01-2008
When I actually get my iPhone and we get a few other ducks in a row I will use it to keep in contact with the soundboard/light guys via IM and email so I can micromanage our events better.
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felix said 10:19AM on 7-01-2008
I'm planning to use the 3G iPhone for geotagging when I'm out and about with my Nikon D40X (which doesn't have GPS). I will take a snap-shot with my phone and when I import the pics off my SLR into Aperture, I simply import the location data off the iPhone shot and viola, all my photos are now 'locationed'. Hope that will work.
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jonathan ober said 10:24AM on 7-01-2008
its not new or cool or whatever, but I take photos of my nine month old, http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=39251&l=56df2&id=535022787
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Martin Westin said 11:29AM on 7-01-2008
Photographers filmmakers and videographers have this little gem to make good use of:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/dof_calc_mobile.xml
Calculates Depth of Field for you with (mostly video) presets to speed things along.
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rbg said 10:35AM on 7-01-2008
Remembering where i parked my car.. Now... where is my iPhone ? ... oh No it's in my car !! :-)
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Rick said 11:08AM on 7-01-2008
That's brilliant!
Oscar Alaniz said 11:10PM on 7-01-2008
haha been there!! =)
Johnny said 10:49AM on 7-01-2008
As a fellow fanboy, the last thing I wanna do is bust on you all, but everything discussed here can be done on pretty much any modern-day smartphone.
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