Thursday 6th March 2025
I am still walking with Pete on Thursdays although during the winter it has been too cold or too inclement for Pete and we have just gone to Café Ambio without walking. However, today was glorious and almost warm and we walked very steadily about half a mile each way at Mill Side under the eye of Whitbarrow. At age 90 Pete is in good heart and we enjoy our post walk retreat to Café Ambio.
I took some photos with the iPhone to give it another try. Whilst I have to admit the quality of the photos is better than my Lumix there is one problem that I just can't live with. The finger slider which selects Photo, Pano, Portrait, Slo-Mo etc. has s life of its own. So often it has moved on, blown by the wind I suspect, and that is only discovered after you think you have taken a photo. This is an egregious design fault. There should be some way of locking it, but despite trawling the Internet I don't think there is. That problem alone is serious enough for me to have no intention of changing to the iPhone as my cameras of choice.
That’s a damn fine point made there Conrad. It sometimes annoys me too but I check it most times. As far as I can tell you can only lock video mode. You can default to photo mode but that doesn’t lock photo mode. I feel like you that they could add this feature quite easily. Would it stop me using my iPhone as a camera? Probably not but it is so annoying.
ReplyDeleteI thought of this post last week (I do read all your posts, even if I usually respond in my head!): with my mobile phone history going from Nokia Brick to Blackberry to Android, I've just switched to an iPhone for the first time (solely for the satellite SOS capability). My first outing trying to use the camera was frustrating - not because I had any problem with it changing mode, but it took some Googling on my return to find out how to make it default to a certain aspect ratio, rather than having to manually change it every time, and how to stop it taking 'live photos'. I'm not sure whether it's a lack of familiarity or whether iPhone really is a whole lot less intuitive than Android! Hopefully I'll get to grips with it in due course.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the world of iPhone. I have given up my recent trial for using it for walking trips. The camera is now occasionally used for photographing the serial number on appliances which is usually located in some inconsiderately located difficult to access location. It happens when you are on the phone to the supplier with a problem and that is the first bit of info. they need.
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