I find myself using two cameras at once quite a lot when I am in the mountains. First, I make the pictures with the big Nikon, then I snap the same picture with the iPhone.
Why? I can’t send a picture home (or to the latest social media account) with the Nikon, but I can share it immediately with the iPhone (assuming cell phone coverage where I happen to be).
And the iPhone images are pretty good–just fine as a frog’s hair for most web uses. As an example, here is an iPhone pano from yesterday’s Twin Sisters hike. It is straight out of the phone except for some straightening and some fixing of the sky where the straightening correction had burred the blue at the top.
Twin Sisters Summit iPhone Pano. Twin Sisters Peak, Colorado, 2015
For reference…the left side is looking south, roughly toward Boulder-Denver, and the right side is looking north with the western quadrant in-between. Longs Peak is at the center with the Mummy Range to the far right. The town of Estes Park would be under the clouds between the Mummy Range and my location.
The ridge in the foreground on the right and the left is actually the same ridge–the west summit of Twin Sisters Peak–so that confirms I swept the camera around a full 180 degrees. It’s hard to see on the small computer screen, but there is actually a surprising amount of detail in the photograph.
Impressive, for such a small device.
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