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Using the iPhone and iPad cameras to capture external guitar oscillations

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 30th, 2011)

Remember the video of guitar strings oscillating, caught by an iPhone sitting inside a guitar? Turns out you can capture this outside a guitar if you just apply a ton of lights. It makes sense, as you're monkeying with the rolling shutter, which can then capture the oscillations of the guitar ...

iPhone 4 captures guitar strings in action

by Steven Sande (Jul 14th, 2011)

This is one of the slickest iPhone 4 videos I've seen in a long time. A guitarist (justkylevids on YouTube) apparently wondered what it was like being inside his guitar while playing, so he dropped his iPhone 4 in with the video camera running and captured this incredible video. The effect ...

Rolling shutter effect can make stunning iPhone photos

by Richard Gaywood (Aug 26th, 2010)

The image above was shot by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 on a flight from London to Guernsey. The weird black lines you can see are actually distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, but this isn't a Photoshop hack; this was how the image came out of the phone. Virtually all ...