iPhone 5 News

A photo of a plate of sushi. Doesn’t seem all that important, right? Wrong.

It is, if the photo was taken using an iPhone 5.

Pocketnow.com has recently stumbled upon a photo of a plate of sushi, supposedly taken using an iPhone 5.

Although the EXIF data points to an iPhone 4, there were some, “inaccuracies”…

Pocketnow tells it better:

“This (very attractive) photo claims to have been taken by an iPhone 4 but the rest of its EXIF data tells a different story: although the image has been cropped to 2235×2291 (5.12 megapixels), the original picture was a much larger 3264×2448 — or just shy of eight megapixels. What’s more, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, which is closer to that of a point-and-shoot than the iPhone 4′s actual 3.85mm f/2.8. (Remember that the upcoming HTC Runnymede is said to have an aperture of f/2.2.)”

Even though rumors and leaks involving EXIF data should be taken with a pinch of salt, (because EXIF data can be easily manipulated and faked) the fact that this photo was taken by an Apple engineer gives a lot more credence to this story.

Anton D’Auria, the Apple engineer who took the photo, uploaded it to his Flickr account (which was recently been made private) and entitled it, “lunch”.

There are also some other aspects of this photo that seem to give further evidence of it being taken using an iPhone 5, like the fact that it was taken at Cupertino, CA, which is Apple’s HQ.

So… 8MP camera on the next iPhone, check?