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The iPhone 16 is Getting a New Button: Here's What It Can Do
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The iPhone 16 is Getting a New Button: Here's What It Can Do:
I think my iPhone is broken. I pressed the Home Button, but I'm still at work!
As a photographer who has pretty much used iPhones exclusively for the last 7 to 10 years making photographs, that sounds great and am really looking forward to it.
If it works well, that alone would be worth the upgrade. I'll check it out at the Apple Store when the 16 is released.
If it works well, that alone would be worth the upgrade. I'll check it out at the Apple Store when the 16 is released.
As far as I know, half button press autofocus has been around about as long as autofocus itself. Long before the D was in DSLR, and continuing after DSLR has given way to mirrorless. But it is needed for those cameras due to often thin focus plane. With the tiny sensors on an iPhone, other than very close up subjects with distance to the background, almost everything is almost always in focus. It also made sense on cameras with fixed focus points on the focus screen where a half press of the button would focus on whatever was in that point. But with no focus points on iPhone, surely it is easier just to tap the subject.
Here's a wild thought. Give us a button that lets me put my phone on vibrate & silent or silent and no vibrate so I dont have to futz with sounds & haptics menus when I dont want to hear my phone vibrate some of the time.
And here are 286 pictures of the inside of my pocket. 😂
Now this is rich. Autofocus with a light press is an advanced high-end feature just like it was on my nearly disposable Kodak with autofocus from the 70’s or 80’s. 🙄
Rich? Really?
It's not claimed that's a new feature for cameras in general. Rather, it is for iPhone and perhaps many other mobile phones with cameras.
As a photographer I'm looking forward to it.
With a two-stage shutter button, the iPhone could be a better camera.
But with a headphone jack, the iPhone can fulfill its destiny as the true successor to the iPod!
But with a headphone jack, the iPhone can fulfill its destiny as the true successor to the iPod!
This actually makes taking photos one handed more cumbersome. And with a physical button, on a device much smaller and lighter than a real camera, you're introducing a lot more camera shake versus a soft touch on the screen with your thumb while the rest of your fingers are stabilising the phone. Not sure about this one.
It was much more practical on the iPhone 4-5, in terms of button placement and shape.
would turning the camera lens on with dimmed display eat up that much battery?
Yes, because it requires the CPU to be active too, and would require the screen to be constantly updated. Always-on display puts the CPU in a low-power state and refreshes the screen very slowly (maybe 1 update per second, or even once per minute on the Apple Watch) in order to save power.
It's going to be the best shutter button Apple has ever designed. And they're going to call it "Snapshot".It's a shutter button, calm down
Shooting one-handed will likely introduce more shake. Much better to use two hands (especially for horizontal framing). Something I always do.
Regarding the upcoming shutter button... If its well positioned and a light touch, I'll be very happy.
Considering we thought the same thing about the island that reproduced and infected MacBooks…..
And yet still no raise your hand for a second to take a group selfie easily option. Such a convenience on android