Cool Video Showing How the iPhone Camera Works

This may be a bit geeky, but it is still cool.  Now most people would think that when the iPhone is shooting video, the light from outside enters the camera and hits the sensor and records all the information.  But the iPhone processor can’t handle all that information.  So the iPhone uses a little trick:  it actually scans the outside light from right top to left bottom, over and over again.  This can make for some pretty interesting effects in certain situations.

In this video, a guitarist has mounted the camera inside the guitar.  According to the photographer:

I just happened upon this trick when testing what it was like filming from inside my guitar. Note this effect is due to the rolling shutter, which is non-representative of how strings actually vibrate.

Take a look.

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