Weird effect with iPhone camera

[rdrr]

I was wondering if anyone else has had any weird effects with the iPhone camera. I was at the Patriots Training camp this morning and sitting in the hot sun. I took some good photos with my iPhone, but I also captured this one. It has a fisheye effect on the left side, and I am wondering if it was due to the heat.

 

[loudestnoise]

Yikes, that's cool, but are you concerned about it?

 

[unity]

OK... I thought it was the way I took the photo, now I know it was not. I had the same thing happen. I took four photos and one was oddly warped as above.

I deleted them all, but when I get a chance I am going to take the same pics again.

Originally I thought it was because the foreground was too close to the camera compared to what I was taking a photo of. I was taking a picture out of a window and there was a frame near the center of the image.

Cool, but odd.

 

[[G5]Hydra]

The camera is probably using a rolling shutter. If you are outside in excellent light and quickly pan the camera you will see the distortion. In film cameras you have a mechanical device that opens and closes in the blink of an eye. Many CCD's used in digital imaging use a rolling shutter instead of true progressive capture, i.e. the whole image being captured the same instant. With a rolling shutter each line of photoreceptors record their data and then each successive line records in series. With a really fast movement you can actually misalign those recorded lines of data getting a distorted image.

 

[103734]

yea I got the same thing in this photo

I was taking the photo and pulled my camera down when I was taking it by accident.

 

[n8236]

So.....is something wrong w/ the camera? Something I should be concerned about?

 

[103734]

So.....is something wrong w/ the camera? Something I should be concerned about?

no nothing is wrong with the camera, just don't swing it around when your using it.

 

[pixelshaders]

You can even see this effect in camera mode in iphone screen if you spin the phone back and forth slowly.