Hack Turns iPhone Camera Into HD Camcorder

Hack Turns iPhone Camera Into HD Camcorder
[14-12-2007]

An anonymous reader writes "Monsters and Friends has just released the beta of Drunknbass, a new iPhone hack that allows the unit's camera to capture video. 'While the iPhone's 2.0 megapixel camera resolution may be mediocre for a still camera, it is excellent resolution for a consumer video camera.'

The near finished Drunknbass apps allows the iPhone to record video up to 45 frames per second (your standard-def TV set handles 30 fps). A beta was just released, which allows the user to test the application for 5 seconds at 10 fps rate, and as the video to the right shows it does a very good job. It is not confirmed if the finished version will allow 1080 x 720 recording. Of course, an iPhone vido camera doesn't have a zoom lens system and convenient features like image stabilization, but for that quick shot to email to friends the MPEG-4 compressed images offered by the iPhone will do quite well.

Source: [Slashdot]

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