Well, after 4.5 hours I was able to get the new iPhone 4S activated. Was it worth it? Yes!
Since I was upgrading from the 3G this was a big jump for me.
After getting it all setup the first thing I wanted to try was the 8MP camera and see how this Photo Stream would work. Well to my surprise it worked without a problem. Took the shot and it showed up within the iPad 2 and on the MacBook Pro via Aperture 3. Put the images right in a Project with today's day. I did not have to do anything but turn on Photo Stream within Aperture.
Now one feature I happen to find via the camera on the iPhone 4S that I did not know was a feature was it has HDR setting built in. Not really sure how this feature works, but it takes two images. Well at least two show up within Aperture. I could not see any thing different within the EXIF info except image number. Will have to figure out how this HDR works with iPhone 4S. Has anyone else tried the HDR setting with the iPhone 4S?
One thing I am not clear on yet is how this iCloud is going to work for storing images? From what I understand you can have up one thousand. Not sure what happens when you reach 1000? I am sure you can delete off the iCloud. Now I will have to delete an image from Aperture iPhone Project to see if it deletes from the iCloud. Maybe someone else could answer those questions.
Now one thing for sure there is going to be a learning curve on the ins and outs of using iCloud. Will be interesting to see all the reviews on the Internet about the iCloud. But it is really cool that it imports images from the iPhone 4S to Aperture without having to do anything. Now if you could do all of this with a high end digital camera via the iCloud. In time I bet it will happen.
Stu
I posted in the last posting about HDR. I think I figured it out. The iPhone 4S captures three photos from that one shot and does all the HDR work in camera. Meaning you do not have to use any HDR software. Then saves an original image along with the HDR imaged within Aperture Project. And of course on the iPhone and iPad if you have one. That is why you end up with two images.
Like I said there is a learning curve with this.
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photos will clear from the cloud after 30 days, I am lead to believe that if you reach 1001 photos then it clears image 1 from your cloud storage and replaces it with image 1001.
If you want to reset images on the cloud you have to go to iCloud.com and login. click on your name in the top right hand corner, then go to advanced and click on to reset photo stream.
This will not remove any images from your iOS devices or computer.
Chris
Thanks for the reply.
If it works that way that is cool.
Do you know if this counts with your 5GB of storage?
One thing I noticed today I was given an extra 20GB for a total of 25GB.
I Think it has to do with the fact I had a MobileMe account and I moved to the iCloud.
It is good until June 30th of 2012. Then I would have purchase the extra storage.
From what I understand you can purchase of to 100GB of storage.
Stu
Stuart
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I am 99.9% sure that Photo stream does not count towards your 5gb.
I’ll add the last .1% then :) At least that’s what Apple says. Your photos, music, calendars, address books and iPhone backups don’t figure in to those 5GB.
Also, in the iPhone settings / Photos page you can choose whether to keep the component HDR photos, or just the final HDR.
You cannot, as far as I could figure out, delete individual photos from the stream. You can delete them from the Aperture project they’re imported to, but not from the stream itself.
And lastly congratulations man. Going from a 3G it must feel like one hell of a difference. I just hope that the jailbreak scene will port Siri successfully to run on my iPhone 4. That feature is just soooo cool.