The Best Camera

A relatively new site strictly for iPhone owners, the rest of us can go home right now, nothing to see here.

This project revolves around a new (paid) app for the iPhone by a photographer named Chase Jarvis, who has also written a book entitled The Best Camera, full of his own iPhone images from around the world to illustrate that the best camera is the one that's with you. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say that because it's already been trademarked but I'll risk it.

The app looks impressive indeed, is apparently all its claimed to be and iPhone users are all over it. The site itself is an almost-real-time display of iPhone images captured and transmitted with this app, coming in from iPhones all over the world. Cleverly, you can sit for hours and watch as the new images appear; the ones I looked at were less than an hour old. No idea how they keep the porn out but they seem to, so I guess someone has to watch all these coming in. They have a strict no-porn, no-commercial-use, nothing illegal or you get thrown out, policy and you aren't allowed to use the app to send an image of the couch you have for sale on Craigslist or Ebay. As if iPhone owners would even think of such a thing.

This is going to be great fun if you have an iPhone, and I gather that if you have an iPhone you can enter a competition to win an iPhone. Not having an iPhone because I don't have that sort of money, I can't tell you more about that. But there's also a blog entry here that might be helpful to you:
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2009/09/best-camera-thanks-you-bigtime.html