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Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Just press the button and it takes the picture instantly. I've often tried to find something like t
by exporectomy 5y ago
Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Just press the button and it takes the picture instantly. I've often tried to find something like that but things keep getting worse. Iphone tries to help with a camera on the lock screen but there's still a lot of tapping and swiping and waiting.
- ehnto 5y agoI find my mirrorless Sony 6700 to be pretty rapid, it's pretty much ready in the time it takes me to flip the switch and move my head to the viewfinder.
- jameshart 5y agoGet a lot of photos of the inside of my lens cap that way.
- alanbernstein 5y agoIMO, phones should have a hardware shutter release button. Press it at any time to take a photo immediately, regardless of the software context. It's bizarre to me that our $1000 phones are still subject to the micro-optimization that leads to elimination of buttons as a primary design goal for very cheap devices.
- phonon 5y agohttps://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4546583 https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4546583
- alanbernstein 5y agoIt's frustrating to me that these are the exception. That may not be my absolute top priority in choosing a phone, and if it isn't, chances are I won't get it.
- phonon 5y agoVote with your wallet then.
- zimpenfish 5y ago> Press it at any time to take a photo immediately, The internet three days after Apple do this: "APPLE PHONES CONSTANTLY VIDEOING SURROUNDINGS, 1984 IS HERE"
- blendergeek 5y agoIf apple was scanning the video for potential evil and contacting the FBI when evil was spotted, then yes people would say "1984 IS HERE".
- mastax 5y agoCamera modules and image processing take a lot of power.
- alanbernstein 5y agoOk, maybe "immediately" is too ambitious, the camera doesn't need to be powered on all the time. I just want a hardware button that gets you to camera-is-ready ASAP.
- zimpenfish 5y ago> Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Some of 'em, yeah. Others where the lens has to come out of the body before you can take a photo, somewhat different. (And yes, I suppose you can leave them powered on to keep the lens out of the body but then you're risking scratches or mechanism damage when you put it away and they also aggressively auto-power off.)