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Apple Patents Directional Flash Tech For Cameras
tekgoblin writes "A patent application has surfaced that shows Apple's attempts at creating a new way for a flash to work on a camera. The way the new flash works is very intriguing: a user can select a dimly lit area of the photo and the camera will try to illuminate just that area with the flash. The way Apple is attempting to accomplish this is similar to the way the autofocus works on the iPhone 4 where you can touch the screen in certain areas to focus on that area. Instead you will be able to light up that area with the flash. This is accomplished by the camera flash passing through a 'redirector' so the flash can be placed other than directly centered when a photo is taken."
You're giving iPhone users enough credit to have brains.
Anyone with a brain wouldn't be using an adjustable flash on a crappy low f-stop lens like that, nor such a low resolution.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Ah. No. You kids with your color photography and your use of digital.
I suggest you have a better understanding of how a CCD or CMOS works (and maybe the chemical make of a negative) before you say that "determining the colour of the surface" is taking a picture because for years, there was, you know, no color photography and by it's very nature, that is not the definition of photography.
You're making a fool of yourself son and showing how very little you know about both digital and traditional photography.