This morning went out fishing on the point and tried out the iPhone camera as a recorder of dawn. It's an OK camera but really the resolution is pretty low. Considering the tiny piece of glass it shoots out of it does an OK job.

The guy on the next point is doing the same thing I am doing. Casting for blues, maybe a striper. My other camera would be able to pick up the three light houses in the background.



A lobster boat cutting the corner around the point in front of me. Pointing ESE my other camera would be able to pick up Spain in the distance.

Beautiful pix!
Spain?? Where exactly were these pictures taken?

Some slight exaggeration. Nothing better to do but to fire up Stellarium and Google Earth I have a slight correction. (Since I have no fish to clean but I will get one at sunset.)

From Cape Ann (where I am north of Boston) the sun today rose at a compass reading of 62 degrees. Which translates to ENE and not ESE. But if you go to google maps and draw the line from Cape Ann out 62 degrees the first landfall is the coast of France 3,300 miles distant. But the coast of Spain juts out just south of there so if I really did have a super camera that could bend around the earth the Spanish coast would be the first to be seen at 3,000 miles.

What's even more interesting (I like this stuff, sue me) is I left out the fact my line to sunrise also transects the entire chunk of Nova Scotia. It is in the way and so is Newfoundland. One always gets the impression you travel straight across the Atlantic to get to France but that is the way you sail, not the way you fly. You sail across the Atlantic on a Rhumb line (same latitude) but flying to Paris in a jet you do a great circle which takes you straight across Nova Scotia. That is why I have been able to spot huge icebergs several times from my window flying back from Paris on the day flight.

And I have been moved to the purgatory of
/ MacTech Magazine/Forums/ iPhone / iPod / iTunes » iPhone / iPod Touch » iPhone as a camera
by the overzealous moderators even though my post is not really about the iPhone or iTunes but really only about a sunrise.

If this was really about the attributes of the iPhone I would have put the post there. Honest. Since I mention a compass, Stellarium and Google Earth now where are you going to hide it? Put it in the Soapbox because Bush still sucks. ;-)

As a resolution point of reference my daughter took this last summer pretty much same conditions with my Panasonic TZ5. The resolution is over the top prior to cropping compared to the iPhone.



Blown up original I can see my fishing line and the color of the lobster pot. (I caught a couple of stripers that morning, no keepers.)

If that were true (about it being a sunrise topic) then you shouldn't have titled the thread: iPhone as a camera but rather something like Fishing in the morning or something like that.

But since you love to push the envelope and see what you can get away with, you titled it what you did and now you are complaining of me moving it?

? ok. I guess that is supposed to mean that you are disappearing from here? And I thought you had thicker skin than that...hmmph.

Uh huh.

Everybody else is going along with the plan, and the forums are being evaluated, but Neil is working on other aspects of his business right now, the ones that bring in the money that finance the whole shebang, our chat room will have it's time, patience.

When I read your post I took it as a comment on the iPhone's capabilities. In just about every sentence you mention the iPhone's quality. Your views and contributions to threads are valued, and you make a good pacer in trivia, it's too bad you need to stomp off while everyone else accepts the rules.

Not stomping off just being my natural jackassy self. I know you wouldn't want it any other way.

As for pacing trivia I guess I am. Pacing the friggin' cellar. I haven't won a daily in three months. It's rigged I say. My IP address is not allowed to submit until at least a 130 seconds goes by. I got Oliver Stone on the case. It's a conspiracy!