Wired's How-To Wiki demonstrates how to exploit the iPhone's unusual shutter to take distorted photographs. The trick? Just twist your camera as you're taking a picture. The reason? The iPhone uses a CMOS sensor, which more or less "wipes" the shutter across the sensor like a scanner rather than the circular aperture of a traditional camera. The iPhone's CMOS scanner seems to be a bit slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on your Canon camera. ...
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Wired's How-To Wiki demonstrates how to exploit the iPhone's unusual shutter to take distorted photographs. The trick? Just twist your camera as you're taking a picture. The reason? The iPhone uses a CMOS sensor, which more or less "wipes" the shutter across the sensor like a scanner rather than the circular aperture of a traditional camera. The iPhone's CMOS scanner seems to be a bit slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on your Canon camera. ...Shared by Aaron R (74) Adam (40) Alec Peden (25) Ben Greenberg (1) chip (25) chrisfreitag (3) Crysti the Great (20) Dave C. (28) dffrnt (28) Drew Olanoff (148) Gluek (6) Hasan (43) Jeffrey (27) Jen (50) kidmarmite (37) Lindsay (16) lisamac (1) Mary Alice (12) Michael (73) Michaelk (18) paul.grayson (13) Polina (5) Punkin (20) puthali (12) rasml (6) Sean O (9) Simon (23) Sky-Walker (38) StevieB (73) Tony (8) vim (120) war2d2 (1) Whiz (25) Woland783 (3)
