On 2010-04-04 21:31 , Christine Nielsen wrote:
http://inielsen.com//bloggerpics/droopy1.jpg

I'm looking for reassurance that this is some kind of iphone camera artifact,

yeah, it stems from the fact that the iPhone doesn't have a shutter, and doesn't capture the all pixels in an image at once; instead it reads across the sensor chip over a period of a fraction of a second, so as it reads from one side to the other, moving objects may be distorted in unusual ways

you could think of it as a "graduated time filter"

here is another interesting airplane propeller example with more on the effect

<http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-rolling-shutter-distortion.html>

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