Even with its price tag dropped to $200, the iPhone 3G still has its fair share of missing features: voice dialing, A2DP Bluetooth stereo, MMS. But perhaps the most glaring among them is the lack of any sort of self-portrait mirror. iPhone owners who’ve tried to take a picture of themselves end up wrestling with the touch-sensitive controls, all the while unable to see exactly what they’re taking a picture of.
I’ve certainly taken my fair share of shots of my chin or one eye, but today as I tried to snap a photo, I came up with an ingenious solution. If you happen to be sitting in front of your MacBook, just fire up Photo Booth. Then you can point the iPhone’s screen at your MacBook’s iSight and see the framing of your shot. It doesn’t work perfectly—your arm can still get in the way—but it’s good enough for taking a carefully posed oh-so-casual shot.
If you don’t happen to have a MacBook or other iSight-enabled Mac, you can accomplish the same thing with a mirror. Or a window. Or a shiny piece of metal. And for those you who will inevitably complain that this won’t help you when you’re capturing your silly Friday night bar antics, may I suggest the simple, expedient solution of having someone take a picture of you?
Let it never be said that I don’t pull my weight around these parts.
If you have an isight, can't you just take a self portrait with that?
Well, sure.
But then you wouldn't be using your iPhone!
The main thing for a lot of us new to IPHONE we would like to have voice dialing. Maybe soon.
or maybe you could just stand in front of a mirror with the camera facing you and the touch screen facing the mirror. duh.
Didn't you hear that iPhone owners don't like to let others touch their phones?
@jamito Of course, you could just take a picture with the iSight. However, in this particular case, I needed a picture of myself on the iPhone, so it made sense to take it there.
@krye I *said* you could use a mirror in the piece. :P
What if you don't reflect on a mirror??
What will you do?? Yeah, Apple, vampires love Macs too!