A shot of an Apple Computer, Inc. “Its Showtime” event poster taken by an employee of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater has made its way online, as reported on Digg.
Apple’s special media event is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, 10am local time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (http://www.ybca.org/), 700 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
Real or fake?
Full image: http://www.macvods.com/newipod.jpg
Alternate link: http://macdailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/647f2942.jpg
Why aren’t these things ever in focus?
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“Low light level gives a certain pattern of noise and the banner’s noise certainly matches the surrounding. It’s a lot easier to make a fake from a clean photo than to make one from noisy photo like that.”
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Trivial to fake.
Take a picture of a solid 50% gray using a crummy camera phone.
Use that as your noise pattern to place over a clean photo (and mockup layers).
It’s so fake, it hurts.
Look at the meta data of the jpg file. It says “Creation Software: Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh”
I’m inclined to say that this is fake at the moment.
Clearly photoshopped.
It still could be real, but you’d have to wonder why anyone would touch up a real photo and risk the obvious criticisms that it is a fake.
Therefore, 99% probability a fake.
Nevertheless I think we’re we’ve all been hoping the new iPod will look exactly like that.
I also failed to mention that traditionally, Apple uses white backgrounds for their consumer products and black for their professionally oriented products.
Personally, I’ve never seen an iMac banner (or any consumer oriented product like the Mac mini & the Macbook) that had a black background.
Taken by the same guy who took all the shots of UFO’s over the past 60 years.
You would think he would have learned to hold his camera still by now?
Leo
mmhm
Unfortunately this is not the 6G iPod.
Peter, I like the wormhole theory but I somehow don’t think so. But for some reason it made me think of the old pink Sony walkmans where half the cassette was actualy sticking out of the player when inserted. Maybe that could work with the new iPod, it only has to be half as wide as a disc. Picture a hand held circular saw. Might scratch the discs though.
Was this picture taken with a quicktake 150?
no , this is
revolutionary new ideas abound
I’d like to think that maybe Apple throws these things into the ether on the run-up to major events just to distract people from what’s really happening.
They probably don’t, but it would confirm all of my thoughts about Job’s control freakery if they did.
daniel, when you take a photo and upload it, then download/copy it somewhere else, is the same file or a copie that’s somhow been filtered through the net and lost all its meta. Or does the photo retain all original metadata. What I mean is whoever took the shot may have done a save for web or resaved it and some of the data may have been lost/altered. Just curious.
um….. the effing iMac is sticking outside the banner….. come on
and apple always covers its banners and waits till after the event to show em off.
“Why aren’t these things ever in focus?”
Because they’re always fake.
Yeah this is fake. The lighting on the sign doesn’t match the rest of the photo.
As mentioned already, the Apple logo is almost touching the left side, is bright white while the title is a very light gray. Also if the logo is suppose to be on the same baseline as the text, it’s off. In relation to the top edge of the banner the logo should be higher.
The screen isn’t even centered on the “iPod” and the reflection doesn’t match.
There is just too much wrong. This was a BAD attempt.
A low-res phone camera taken at a distance then cropped for a close-up would yield a low quality photo. That can explain all such blurred photos – but doesn’t mean some aren’t forged anyway.
If it’s real, with all the icons displayed around the screen like that, it looks more like some sort of FrontRow menu, which, if you had a touch screen iPod, would be cool…
If it’s fake, someone’s put some thought into what the next gen iPod could be like…
iPod – schmiPod….
I want my Core 2 duo MacBook Pro!
I’m going out on a limb here…it may seem so fake that it is possibly the real thing. Someone had to very quickly whip out the camera phone and quickly take this blurry picture if it is real.
The Front Row CD/DVD icons would be real if there were wireless built-in, allowing the iPod to be used as a controller. The design looks simple and unintrusive to the content, as Steve would imagine it.
I have trouble believing that someone would go to all that trouble in Photoshop, especially creating the poor light, blurriness, etc.
Oh well, we’ll see tomorrow.
Here we go again…iPhotoshop.
Can’t believe this is even being reported. C’mon MDN, post something of value.
Why is everyone concerned with the CD/DVD, they are currently Front Row icons. As well as iMovie and iPhoto.
My question is what the “Deathstar” looking icon????
I’ll simply add a question: What in the hell is that grey trapazoid behind the top left corner of the ipod?
I say the banner is fake, but what were Mr/Ms Fakey thinking there?
COOL….IT HAS A DEATHSTAR FEATURE? Does it only work on Zunes and iRivers?
What is this? XFiles? How hard would it be to get a focused picture with a point and shot from that distance?
It makes it exciting and all that, I guess…
Fake. Apple simply NEVER ALLOW a poster of this nature hanging around uncovered before a show of this magnatude. I don’t even need to analyze pixels or metadata to know that this could not be real.