Sunday, December 21, 2008

iPhone camera photos--A Tip

You would think I would have figured this out before now, but I didn't. Apparently when I email photos from my iPhone--which is how I upload them to Flickr most of the time--the photos are downsized to 800x600. The original size of the photos is 1600x1200. This shouldn't be a huge problem, but it was compounded by several factors.
  1. I took a photo with my iPhone that I'd now like to print bigger than 4x6".
  2. The camera roll on my iPhone had gotten so full that I started deleting photos off the iPhone.
  3. Though I'd been downloading photos to my PC using Adobe Lightroom on a semi-regular basis, something went horribly wrong and they're nowhere to be found on my PC. I've now successfully downloaded all of the photos still on my iPhone at their full resolution to my computer, but the one I really want is gone.

I haven't yet figured out a) how to force the iPhone to email photos at full resolution (or an iPhone app that does this) or b) why Lightroom failed to save the photos it'd been telling me were successfully imported all this time. Also, it turns out that you can theoretically delete multiple/all photos from the iPhone through Windows (something you can't do directly on the iPhone) but conveniently a bug was introduced in the latest (2.2) firmware update that caused the iPhone to crash in a big way (several minutes to reboot) when you attempt this now. Awesome.

So just be aware of this problem

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I, also, haven't figured out how to email an iphone photo at full-res. However, in case you weren't aware of it, using Windows Explorer you can view the iphone as an external hard drive and copy the images (if you're using a Windows OS) and save them to your hard drive at full-res (1600x1200).

Blogger Star Girl said...

Thanks for the tip about using Windows Explorer. I did know that, but wanted a way to email them at full resolution from the phone directly.

FYI, I've tried out two iPhone apps now that let you upload or email full resolution photos from the iPhone.
1) Shozu--this is an adequate free application that lets you send one photo at a time to preset destinations including an email address, to Flickr, Blogger, Facebook, etc. The thing I don't like about it is that it includes extra text/image badges for Shozu in the posts (turns out that PixelPipe does this in certain cases as well, though to a lesser extent).
2) PixelPipe--this is a better free app that lets you email/upload multiple photos at a time to preset destinations including email, Blogger, Flickr, Facebook, etc. The only thing I can see it does not do that Shozu does is let you make text-only posts to your blog, etc. (which I don't need an app for). It's not perfect either. But better.

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