But as with so many other features of the iPhone, Apple’s already managed to convert the camera into something I’ll actually use. It’d be nice whether there was better Flickr integration, or the ability to send more than one image to a person in a restricted letter, or picture messaging. The rest is icing. No more worrying about having to go home, remember to download the pictures into iPhoto, and thereupon mail them off.

Ahoy. I took about 85 shots with my iPhone (despite the fact that I plus had a real point-and-shoot camera with me). I even managed to snap a picture or two at night that exceeded my expectations.

Taking pictures is easy. The lack of options here means simplicity more than anything. Add in the pinch zoom and rotating to landscape, and you’ll get plenty of “oohs” and “ahhs.”

When you finally add Web back in the mix, the results are even better. That’s it. We’ve waxed rhapsodic about the iPhone’s gorgeous screen, and the two megapixel images look beautiful as you’re flicking through them.

But the best part of taking

That said, there are still some shortcomings.

Still, I did get a surprising amount of use out of one of the iPhone’s features, and it’s one that’s been getting short shrift next to the phone, Net, and iPod functionality: the camera. Done and done. And in daytime photographs with suitable light, the camera is perfectly fine. I snapped a shot of my cousin at a baseball game and emailed it to him from our seats. Yes, we know it’s not the best camera, or even the best cameraphone, in the world—2 megapixels, no flash, no zoom—but this is the kind of implementation I’d dreamed of when I got my first cameraphone. Having spent most of the last week in an undisclosed location that lacked not only Wi-Fi but pretty much any shred of cell phone reception, I’ve been suffering from the dreaded “half-an-iPhone” syndrome: when showing off the iPhone to the a large number of relatives, I had to continually guarantee them that it was much cooler when you had access to the Net. Hit the camera button, point and shoot.

Original post by Dan Moren