Derrick Story at Macworld: Using the camera in your iPhone with iPhoto '08
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TRANSCRIPT
Okay let's go to - let's go to importing. One of the things that I talk about constantly is that you should always have a camera with you right? Always; some sort of camera, and the reason being if you don't have a camera with you, that's when life gets really interesting. How many times have you been walking - and San Francisco is perfect for this. You're walking down the street and you go, "Oh my gosh - look at that, you see that? I wish I had a camera with me."
Yeah, so you always wanna have a camera with you. Yes, well these make good cameras too right? So the iPhone is actually a pretty decent camera. So you have shots on here, the iPhone works great with iPhoto. Now it could be because they both have I's at the beginning, I'm not sure. It could be that they're both made by Apple. But on your camera here and I'll just slide this to unlock this. I have a 2 megapixel camera and one of the things that they've done, some of the secret sauce in iPhoto or in the iPhone is that it has a great automatic white balance function, better than most regular digital cameras. So you know you can use this thing for all sorts of stuff.
Now what a lot of folks like to do after they take a picture is then they, you know since you have email connectivity, you know go ahead and email it to somebody and that's nice but what the iPhone does, if you do that, it samples it down. It samples it down to about what, 640 by 480 I believe. Well it's a 2-megapixel camera. That means it should be - it shoots at 1,600 by 1,200. The way that you can get full resolution from your camera is with iPhoto and all you have to do is plug it in, we've plugged it in right now, connection has been made, and it shows up here under devices and then all the images that you have on your camera show up here.
Now I'm gonna show you some tricks on how to manage these images cause in the old days, in the old days, you know way long time ago, like a year, you had to actually import everything at once and then if there are duplicates it'll say do you wanna import this one? You already have it. And you go no, I don't want it. Well now that's all changed and I'll show you that in a minute but I wanna talk a little bit about camera phone stuff.
One of my favorite, I like shooting, well I like shooting all sorts of stuff. I like shooting outside of airplane windows but one of the things that I love and what I think one of the best uses for camera phones is where you park. When you go - and this is particularly important if you fly, have you ever gone somewhere for like a week, Hawaii, you go to Hawaii for a week and you have a little bit of rum and you relax and then your brain just goes to mush right? Which is - that's what we go to Hawaii for. We don't go to get stressed out, we go to have fun and relax.
So you come home, the plane lands, it's like 9:00 at night, you get on the bus back to the car where it is and they drop you off and you go, "Where are we parked again?" You know, "Did I write it down?" So here's what you do. When you get there, get out of your car, the first thing you do is pull your camera phone out of your pocket, take a picture of where you're parked and just have it there on your camera phone. Once you do that, you don't have to worry about it again.
And then what's fun is you end up with this kind of interesting collection of shots of all the parking garages you've ever visited but that's another issue. But it's a great memory device. And while you're at it, remember that even though it's a camera, what it is really is a data-recording device. So if you see, like for instance on this Kline Tree Service, well first of all I thought this was kinda interesting but what if I really wanted to call the guy?
Do I have to pull out the notes function and dut-dut oh darn, dut, oh darn. No! Put it in camera; just take a picture of it. Take a picture of things, take a picture when the restaurants open and close; take a picture of little signs. You can take a picture of anything, it's a lot faster than taking notes and since it connects so well with your computer, then you can grab those pictures right off.
All right now what we could do, we could import all of the photos here but I don't wanna do that. I only want one of the things that you can do in iPhoto 8 is that you can just grab, you know any old one shot that you want. So let's say that I wanted this sunset shot. I could just click on it and do import selected. That is a major improvement over what we had before cause we had to import everything. So I could do that or if I wanted to, let's say I just wanted to add it to the project that we're working on right now. This is a MAC. A MAC means you can just grab it drop it.
Now don't do this. Don't delete originals, you know do that on your iPhone okay? So just say you know what, thank you iPhoto but I'll keep my originals. Now we go over here ... there's my photo right there. Now if you'll notice in the information box here, down here in the lower left, I have the full 1,600 by 1,200, I got a full 2-megapixel shot now, whereas if I just emailed it to myself, I only get 640 by 480. so if you want full resolution, the way you have to do that is just drag it into iPhoto. I'm gonna click once to put it away.
Now of course, once it's here, I can just drag it onto my desktop. Okay now I have it, I'll just drop it onto preview so we can take a little peek at it and there's my photo right there. So it's really easy. Now you can't drag out of the import window onto your desktop, it wants to go to iPhoto first but you can just connect your iPhone, see the shots that you want, drag the ones into iPhoto, you know play with em and then you can just drag them onto your desktop. It's really fast and it's a great way to interact, to have your iPhone interact.
