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“Photon gating” makes for interesting cameraphone pictures (via Boing Boing)
“The iPhone has no physical shutter and instead uses photon gating on its CMOS sensor. Some parts of the image are recorded before others, much like with a scanner. The iPhone’s CMOS scanner seems to be a lot slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on your Canon point and shoot camera. Therefore, as the camera is recording the image, any changes over that small but significant amount of time are recorded.”
I wanted to see if this worked with other camera phones as well. Check out the results I got:
I found the photos tend to turn out best when there are strong lines present in the composition.
A mild spin effect can be achieved by simply turning the phone from vertical to horizontal immediately after pushing the ‘capture button’. The more spin, the more bending you’ll see in the photo.
Try it out. Share your results in the comments.
