iPhone Hacks: refocusing your camera

Can someone please explain to me why anyone would choose Flickr as their photo-sharing site? Flickr's photo presentation is so bad that it's laughable. Yet they are extremely popular. I just don't get it!

Just finished putting instructions up at: http://www.eastrain.com/?p=73

Hi!
Sorry.. but I got more interested on your modded Summerboard... :P
Where did you get that? What's its name?
Thanks!
Cheers

I apologize for going off-topic, but I have an odd problem with my iPhone 3G's camera lens: My iPhone camera is not square. In order for pix I take with the phone to be level, I must hold the phone about 1 degree clockwise from level as I tap the shutter. Anyone else? I've Googled and found absolutely nothing.

awesome, awesome, i was able to adjust the camera using a spare component i have in my "iphone graveyard" drawer. I'll be putting this into a phone that I have to open to fix for someone. I want to test video (with Cycorder and Video Recorder) and of course photos. I would like to see if a mid point would be the best of both worlds..

Thanks for the comments everyone-
Jrob:
I'll be posting a link to the guide on the flickr set page either tonight or tomorrow once it's done... I didn't bring the second phone with me today.

three60guy:
I totally agree with your comment- I just happen to NEVER use the camera for distance shots, and it'd just be more junk for me to carry around, regardless of size, as well as- at least for me- having a constant focus depth is great.

Mark2000:
Interesting that you mention that- My first iPhone was actually misfocused from the factory at around 5 ft. It's been long since sold. The second iPhone (what some of these shots were taken with) was focused at near infinity- toog great distance shots of outdoors, but even people were a tad blurry. The 3G seems to have had the 20ft. focusing you speak of.

Get a $9 Radioshack magnifier and hold it flush to the iPhone to get that same close-up mod without all the fuss. Check the following Wired Wiki for all the details (all the photos shown were ones I took).

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Take_Detailed_Close-up_Photos_With_Your_iPhone

I don't know about everyone else, but my iPhone is not focused at infinity. It seems like its only good for a foot away to 20 feet way. Long shots are totally blurry. Basically its good for portraits and that's it.

you may want to mention that this will almost assuredly void your warranty, but beyond that, good luck to anyone who tries it out!

This would make me use my iphone camera about a 1000 times more than I do now, but I won't break my iphone for this.