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iPhone 16 Pro I predict the Camera control button will be gone in less than 3 years
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Absolutely! Steve Jobs was a minimalist and aesthetics queen who didn't like buttons, battery doors, and ports and his main goal was to remove as much as possible from the iPhone (all Apple devices really)...and he's rolling in his grave as we speak.
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When you use the volume buttons, the cameras are in the worst spot, the same spot that your fingers are. If you try to hold it so your fingers are not in the way, then the power button is going to be in the way. The camera control makes it so you don’t need to think about it.
Also, the action button can take pictures if you have it set to camera. No need to use the volume buttons.
I hear you. I guess it's all what you're used to.
I work for a Fortune 100 company. For about 15 years now, we've had an edict that any PowerPoint presentations we build for internal meetings have to be in portrait format - basically, any presentation that's going to spark meaningful back-and-forth discussion and that might end up on paper has to be in portrait. (If it's more of a PR-type presentation, internal or external, that's primarily going to be projected, then that's going to still be in landscape.)
Switching to portrait after years of doing slides in landscape was really difficult. We had to completely rethink how we built slides. But now it's second-nature.
The funny thing is that we have a number of joint ventures with international partners, and each of them appears to do everything in landscape within their own companies; for our JV presentations, we have deferred to them and continue to do those in landscape. It's a pain, especially when your boss says, "You know that great slide you made for our internal presentation? Can you redo it in landscape for the JV deck?" Argh! Things never fit just right and it just looks weird!
To this day I pretty much refuse to browse Instagram because I prefer photos in landscape format. I like to do most of my photo browsing on the larger iPad screen, and the iPad pretty much begs to be used in landscape, at least with the case/stand I use. So I shoot most of my photos in landscape mode as well - plus I take photos of scenery more than I do people. Both my wife and I dislike having our pictures taken... We never seem to know how to smile for the camera and always seem to look uncomfortable in the resulting photos!
There are plenty of people who are not like that. I don't really shoot video, but if I did, I would do it in landscape format, because TV screens. I shoot 90% of my photos in landscape as well because the screens I view them on - iPad, TV, MacBook, external monitor - are set up in such a way that the photos will be bigger on those screens when they are in landscape rather than portrait.
Agree that plain portraits, with nothing in the background, should be taken vertically. If you want to capture both a person's face and something interesting in the background, however, landscape is the way to go, as far as I'm concerned.
made some pictures today (landscape) and it felt like the most natural way to take pictures.
not sure if i'll use it for portrait though. but i rarely take pictures that way.
not sure if i'll use it for portrait though. but i rarely take pictures that way.
I’m actually finding this to be better than having the adjustment controls enabled. I find those quirky to use. Having it as a single button to launch, and then snap the photos, is better for me.
Settings > Accessibility > Camera Control
Settings > Accessibility > Camera Control
the button is dumb. it is absolutely forced innovation. its not pleasant to use at all. it makes no sense AT ALL. and it ruins cases.
This solved my issue. I hate the adjustments with passion.
Yeah your opinion. Then just dont use it and stop whining.
Its not like it prevents you from doing something. Plenty of people like it, me included.
Deal with it.
I found the camera control harder to use than the regular controls. All the recording I did yesterday was done the regular way. Except when I needed touch review footage of me using the camera control.
The Camera Control button, even after I figured out how to use it, was much harder to use than the regular controls. All it did was slow down the picture-taking process.
It would have been cool if they added touch id to it as a 2nd layer of security for those who want it.
Otherwise I don't really have anything against it. From the reviews it seems a little "clunky" the way it responds, seems it could have been a little longer to be able to select more things with one swipe or zoom more in one swipe.
Otherwise I don't really have anything against it. From the reviews it seems a little "clunky" the way it responds, seems it could have been a little longer to be able to select more things with one swipe or zoom more in one swipe.
it prevents me from enjoying the phone to the best of my ability. every time i pick it up i notice the button. its annoying af
My xperia Z5 had the finger print sensor integrated in the power button. Best solution ever and so much more comfortable than the home button touch ID. Still miss it to this day.
Engineers arent the ones coming up with the ideas or looking for new features to sell the phones. Those would be the designers and marketeers.
They are the people that engineer the feature others have requested.
Haven’t used it yet but I like the idea. It seems like the fastest way to recording a moment. Also I believe it allows you to fully use the camera with one hand since otherwise you need two hands to zoom.
Not best for every situation maybe. It doesn’t seem like a practical location for taking photos in vertical orientation.
Not sure if this is already possible, but I wish I could set the slider to always zoom since I don’t really mess with other adjustments.
Also I always slightly move the camera whenever I press a shutter button, so I wish I could set it so that resting my finger on the button for 3 seconds would take the picture.
Not best for every situation maybe. It doesn’t seem like a practical location for taking photos in vertical orientation.
Not sure if this is already possible, but I wish I could set the slider to always zoom since I don’t really mess with other adjustments.
Also I always slightly move the camera whenever I press a shutter button, so I wish I could set it so that resting my finger on the button for 3 seconds would take the picture.
I don’t know what everyone is so damn upset about, I love this button. The swipe feature has been great for me too, I just leave it on the lens switcher.
Im going on a trip Monday, can’t wait to use this thing non stop next week. It truly is a great addition. And on the pro max feels like it’s in a good spot to me, for landscape id probably only want it very slightly closer to the bottom.
Im going on a trip Monday, can’t wait to use this thing non stop next week. It truly is a great addition. And on the pro max feels like it’s in a good spot to me, for landscape id probably only want it very slightly closer to the bottom.
When Apple does away with the button, everyone who complained about it will complain it is gone. People complain that there is no innovation but when Apple does add something, it is immediately panned. These type of posts are useless because once people get used to it, it will benefit many.
I've been trying to use the new shutter button and I'm extremely disappointed, as others mentioned it's actually more work to use than the default way.
The biggest deal-breaker is that it requires too much force to click. I find two issues here:
1. The extra pressure required causes the phone to shake slightly with each press, increasing the risk of getting a more blurry photo.
2. The force needed makes it annoying to use repeatedly, especially when taking multiple shots or angles.
I find that using the regular/default digital shutter is so much effortless and comfortable .
Then the swipe functionality and having to double-tap to switch modes is so frustrating and unnecessary. There is an entire 6.3" or 6.9" gorgeous touch-screen, why force users to double tap of on a gimmick button to switch modes when it could be done so much quicker with the screen?
The only advantage I see so far is using it to launch the camera app, that's it.
The biggest deal-breaker is that it requires too much force to click. I find two issues here:
1. The extra pressure required causes the phone to shake slightly with each press, increasing the risk of getting a more blurry photo.
2. The force needed makes it annoying to use repeatedly, especially when taking multiple shots or angles.
I find that using the regular/default digital shutter is so much effortless and comfortable .
Then the swipe functionality and having to double-tap to switch modes is so frustrating and unnecessary. There is an entire 6.3" or 6.9" gorgeous touch-screen, why force users to double tap of on a gimmick button to switch modes when it could be done so much quicker with the screen?
The only advantage I see so far is using it to launch the camera app, that's it.