Camera only taking 800x600 pictures?

I was under the impression that the 3G iPhone had the same 2 megapixel camera that the original camera had. However all the pictures I have taken are coming out at 800x600 instead of the 1600x1200 they should be. I am not able to see any settings where I can change this. Am I missing something?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 17, 2008 4:34 PM

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Jul 27, 2008 4:47 PM in response to slptlp

Yeah stupid Apple limited the email attachment picture resolution.

Come on Apple! 2Mpix image from iPhone is too small, only 435KB!! What so hard about letting it to be emailed as the original 1600 x 1200 resolution???? Isn't that defeats the point of having WIFI and 3G??

The only way to export the original picture is to use the USB and copy directly from iPhone to your PC

Jul 27, 2008 5:23 PM in response to gdgmacguy

Yes, just found that the only way to get the original resolution was to use iPhoto (on Mac). Even iTunes can't get the photos out of the iPhone.

About the email resize : I agree with everyone to say it's completely stupid, we're in 2008, come on, stop this lame behavior on an Apple product!

Espescially when it is stated nowhere in the manual nor in the official support site : I should not had to come here to find this out.

Jul 29, 2008 1:15 PM in response to Cyril Lambin

Same here. I was looking for this same exact question. I didn't know I had to use iPhoto to extract the photos from iPhone. I was wondering how I could do that, and ended up e-mailing the photos instead to MobileMe which in turn was only 800x600 and left me scratching my head.

Anyway, not that it matters much. The photos always come out blurry, so resizing to 800x600 is probably better looking than the 2MP pic. =)

My 2 cents, we should be able to add the photos to Mobile "as-is" without having to use e-mail. What's the point of e-mail? Just directly inject the photo into the gallery!

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