Flickr Find: iPhone cubism

This little glitch has never happened to my iPhone, though I wish it had -- there's a glitch in the iPhone's camera that will occasionally cause it to slice up pictures like this, and our friend Veronica Belmont created a whole pool of the glitchy photos called iPhone cubism. Of course, if you want a picture of your little girl, it's more frustrating than anything else, but in an artistic sense, some of the pictures are really benefited by the random slicing. As if the iPhone didn't do enough, now it's throwing some art into the mix.

Of course, it's a bug, not a feature. Since several people are reporting this as a problem after 2.0 was released, we're guessing it's a software issue, perhaps a problem with syncing the little light sensor chip in the iPhone's camera. If you have some great pictures of this stuff, throw them into the pool on Flickr, and hopefully for the less artistic (and less bug-patient) among us, Apple will get this fixed soon.

Thanks, Jason!

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Source: http://www.flickr.com/groups/iphonecubism/pool/page2/

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Joe

Yep happened to me too

http://flickr.com/photos/joesak/2824244567/

September 03 2008 at 9:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Galley

I've also had some "Rubber Soul" distortion. Weird.

September 03 2008 at 8:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John B. Kendrick

This hasn't happened to me, but until the latest update, the first picture I took each time I opened the camera would go missing. I learned to take two to get started, but this behavior has now apparently been fixed. If you want to read more about my experiences with the original and 3G iphones, check out my blog at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com

September 03 2008 at 8:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jerod

My first gen iPhone used to give me a split screen preview while taking pictures.

September 03 2008 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

luz

Glad to read this happens to others - I thought this must be a defective or imporperly soldered camera chip in my 3G. I had SW 2.0.1 at the time it happened last time.

September 03 2008 at 3:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

happens lots on m 1st gen iPhone - I thought you could make it happen by moving the iPhone quickly left to right while taking a shot...

September 03 2008 at 1:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

denny

It only happened once. My year-old 2G iPhone (with 2.0) while I was in line for the 3G. Took a picture of the line ahead of me and it was "sliced."

September 02 2008 at 10:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Catt

I thought I did something wrong when one of my pictures came out like that...

September 02 2008 at 9:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BigB

I had this happen the other day, fortunately it wasnt as bad as the example and i was able to fix it in PS.