Can someone please show me how to configure the iPhone 4s to use the volume buttons for the camera shutter release? Using the button on the screen is really lame and doesn't allow for natural one-hand-hold shooting.
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Use volume buttons for camera shutter?
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I don;t think there is a setting. It's a feature and already enabled. Use the volume up button. Been there since ios5:
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/13/ios-5-camera-volume-shutter-lock-screen-remote-triggering/
No configuration necessary. As long as you have iOS 5.x, pressing the volume up button should trigger the shutter when in the native Camera app (the volume down button does nothing here).
I don't remember having to set up anything. Hold the camera with the buttons on top and use the one to the right (up-volume).
I find with my Otterbox Commuter I have to press it pretty hard though
OK, I'm trying to remember the details, BUT:
if you have a Mac, what was suggested will work just fine. If you intend to view the pics on a PC, they will be upside down when taken with the volume button on top. Seems to me I had to flip it upside down and put the button on the bottom to have it display upright on a PC.
if you have a Mac, what was suggested will work just fine. If you intend to view the pics on a PC, they will be upside down when taken with the volume button on top. Seems to me I had to flip it upside down and put the button on the bottom to have it display upright on a PC.
It will show upside down in any app that doesn't read/honor the EXIF orientation. I haven't checked but I believe Chrome/FF will render it properly on the PC. IE/Outlook/etc show incorrectly iirc.
Shoot, I forgot to mention I'm shooting with hipstamatic, the volume button doesn't work with this app....are there any other apps very similar to hipstamatic that will allow me to use the volume button?
Similar how so? Takes square pictures? Has lots of filter effects? Has social networking built in?
If it's just the filter effects, Pixlromatic is free and does that. And I just checked that the volume up controls the shutter.
Regards,
Tom
