What do photographers miss the most in smartphones?

[VinceInMT]

Regarding the responsiveness of a phone camera, with the iPhone if “Live Photo” is activated, the camera captures just before through just after you press the shutter. Think of it as a very short video. Afterwards, you can select which frame you want.

 

[bags27]

When I take the chip out of my cell phone and put it Pyrocat, nothing good seems to happen.....

 

[koraks]

When I take the chip out of my cell phone and put it Pyrocat, nothing good seems to happen.....

You're supposed to do a clip test first to determine optimal development time. Snip the leading edge off the phone and put that into the developer.

 

[snusmumriken]

A 50mm lens.
Tactile knobs and things to twiddle.
Enlargement quality.

 

[Chan Tran]

Mine works fine. May be you have a defective touch screen? Should get it checked out.

I am talking about a lot of phones that have used. Samsung S4, S8, S22. Iphone 4, 5, 6, 7,12.

 

[Chan Tran]

Regarding the responsiveness of a phone camera, with the iPhone if “Live Photo” is activated, the camera captures just before through just after you press the shutter. Think of it as a very short video. Afterwards, you can select which frame you want.

I want the camera to take the shot when I push the button not before nor after.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

On iPhone you can press the shutter with voice activation - I have set it so that when I say shoot, the shutter goes off. Don't know if Android has something similar. Here are the instructions for iPhone:



:Niranjan.

Android does except I use the word "smile".

 

[nmp]

Enlargement quality.

Apparently you can get pretty good enlargements these days:

How Big Can It Go - iPhone RAW and Gigapixel - PhotoPXL

The new iPhones have fantastic cameras capable of shooting raw files. In this article we'll see just how big we can print them.

photopxl.com

I would trust Kevin Raber's judgement regarding digital printing.

:Niranjan

 

[nmp]

Android does except I use the word "smile".

Good to know. I am going to change mine to smiiiile per @MattKing's suggestion....

 

[VinceInMT]

I want the camera to take the shot when I push the button not before nor after.

It takes before AND after. It captures 1.5 seconds BEFORE you pressed the button through 1.5 seconds AFTER you press the button at 15 frames per second giving you 45 frames from which to choose.

 

[nmp]

It takes before AND after. It captures 1.5 seconds BEFORE you pressed the button through 1.5 seconds AFTER you press the button at 15 frames per second giving you 45 frames from which to choose.

How does it know before?

 

[aw614]

On iPhone you can press the shutter with voice activation - I have set it so that when I say shoot, the shutter goes off. Don't know if Android has something similar. Here are the instructions for iPhone:



:Niranjan.

I don't use voice control, nor do I use an iphone, and I actually liked older phones that had the half-press shutter buttons built-in to them to prefocus my shot. Either way, I found I can double press the power button on my phone instead which will work for me.

 

[Chan Tran]

I never use touch screen for anything critical like the Emergency Stop button. I use a lot of touchscreen HMI in machines used in the industry but some critical function like the E Stop it's always a real button.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

It takes before AND after. It captures 1.5 seconds BEFORE you pressed the button through 1.5 seconds AFTER you press the button at 15 frames per second giving you 45 frames from which to choose.

How does it know to take pictures before you press the button?

 

[abruzzi]

Physical buttons and knob, plus a viewfinder I put my eye up against.

 

[abruzzi]

How does it know to take pictures before you press the button?

It’s always recording frames into a buffer. The buffer is enough to hold a certain number of frames, when the buffer is full, it starts overwriting old frames.

 

[nmp]

It’s always recording frames into a buffer. The buffer is enough to hold a certain number of frames, when the buffer is full, it starts overwriting old frames.

You mean when you turn the live function, it starts shooting without you touching the shutter yet?

 

[Sirius Glass]

When I take the chip out of my cell phone and put it Pyrocat, nothing good seems to happen.....

Have you tired XTOL?

 

[koraks]

You mean when you turn the live function, it starts shooting without you touching the shutter yet?

Yeah. Conceptually simple; it's probably implemented as some form of a circular buffer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_buffer

 

[nmp]

Yeah. Conceptually simple; it's probably implemented as some form of a circular buffer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_buffer

I didn't know this (and 99% of the other stuff my iPhone can do.) Learn something new everyday....

:Niranjan

 

[DWThomas]

Hmm -- I'd say real knobs and switches. Cumbersome is the nicest thing I can say about trying to manually control what's going on. But probably "there's an app for that" that I just haven't caught up with (or looked for).

That said, I shot some video of steam railroad activity last year with my iPhone 13 Pro on a tripod and the results were remarkable for something that fits in a shirt pocket. Noticeably better than those yea many pounds on the shoulder consumer video cams of the 70s and 80s. I use my phone for far more photography than phone calls!

 

[Anon Ymous]

I use my phone for far more photography than phone calls!

Me too. I do very few calls and it's practically also a phone, among other things, not primarily a phone.

 

[VinceInMT]

How does it know to take pictures before you press the button?

As mentioned above, it is like the circular buffer. I checked with my son who is an engineer for that company and he said that yes, that's basically how it works. When you bring up the camera app it starts recording to a buffer. When you push the button it tags that frame as the "key frame" and saves what was recorded 1.5 seconds before and 1.5 seconds after.

Yes, there are all kinds of doo dads in that small package of technology. When I got mine I downloaded and read the manual. Not all of it as I skipped over most of the phone features, like conference calling, etc. The Live Photo instructions, which should work for most models is here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-live-photos-iph17471d6de/ios

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

As mentioned above, it is like the circular buffer. I checked with my son who is an engineer for that company and he said that yes, that's basically how it works. When you bring up the camera app it starts recording to a buffer. When you push the button it tags that frame as the "key frame" and saves what was recorded 1.5 seconds before and 1.5 seconds after.

Yes, there are all kinds of doo dads in that small package of technology. When I got mine I downloaded and read the manual. Not all of it as I skipped over most of the phone features, like conference calling, etc. The Live Photo instructions, which should work for most models is here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-live-photos-iph17471d6de/ios

What about the iPhone battery usage? Does the camera constantly adjust its lens to focus at all times?

 

[VinceInMT]

What about the iPhone battery usage? Does the camera constantly adjust its lens to focus at all times?

Live Photos do utilize the battery more but that feature is easily toggled on/off from the camera app. It's the bullseye thing next to the flash icon.