{"id":1095,"date":"2009-02-05T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:46:47","slug":"improved-iphone-photos-with-clearcam-and-yea-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/improved-iphone-photos-with-clearcam-and-yea-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved iphone photos with clearcam.. and yea, it works"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know that the camera on the iphone is about as poor as it gets.\u00a0 Basically its the same thing I had in my treo600\/650. I’ve learn to accept this and move on with life.\u00a0 Well, seems like someone was not willing to take this laying down and did something about it. In comes ClearCam<\/a>.\u00a0 I just loaded it last night off Cydia and then did a few test shots today.\u00a0 Its not going to reinvent photography on the iphone, but it does make a difference.\u00a0 The way it seems to work is to take 6 shots in rapid succession and then using tiling and comparative techniques, to sharpen and enlarge the image.\u00a0 So instead of a 2M image, you get a 4M image.\u00a0 The difference is not massive, but you can tell.\u00a0 Have a look at these two images zoomed in.<\/p>\n

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The difference may not look all that great, but if you click on each image and view them full size, you can see it’s sharper and has less noise.<\/p>\n

Now have a look at these two..<\/p>\n

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In this case, the image actually ‘seems’ to be brighter despite being taken only 5 min apart.\u00a0 Take a careful look at the batteries to the right.\u00a0 The difference in sharpness is most acute here.\u00a0 I may reshoot this because there is not reason I can figure for it to be brighter.\u00a0 We’ll see if I get around to it.<\/p>\n

The app is only for jailbroken phones at the moment, and even then you only get a 15 day trial, but the cost is around $10 if I remember correctly,\u00a0 so a pretty good deal I would say.\u00a0 Go get it… now..<\/p>\n

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