This last Sunday, Charlie Rose and 60 Minutes were given access to Apple’s executives and campus, in what turned out to be a relatively easy interview process, even as it covered a wide range of topics.
One of those topics was the camera in the iPhone. Charlie Rose was given a tour of Apple’s camera testing laboratory, which is headed up by Graham Townsend, and some interesting details were brought to light. It is no secret that one of Apple’s strengths regarding its iPhone lineup has been the camera, especially when compared to other cameras in smartphones on the market, and that has a lot to do with just how many people the company has working on the shooter in its most popular product.
Townsend revealed that Apple has over 800 people (“engineers and other specialists”) solely dedicated to working on the camera, and improving it in each subsequent generation.
The interview would go on to showcase several different testing scenarios, of which Townsend said that Apple puts its cameras through several different levels and rounds in its development cycle. Townsend noted that Apple simulates light levels of varying degrees, from really bad indoor lighting and even sunsets. “We can simulate all those here,” Townsend told Rose.
It’s also worth noting that the camera has over 200 separate, individual parts.
[via 60 Minutes]
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