Casey Liss

But here's the kicker. This is the thing I wouldn't have predicted. The half press on the camera control button to activate the menus is unlike any half press on any big camera that I've ever used in my entire life in that it is way, way more difficult to get to it.

Like it is a thing that you have to train your fingers to do because if you just do what you would do to half press a real camera button, you've pressed it all the way. That's too far. So it's like... how do I half press this button? And you have to press so much lighter than you think. And I know there's this preference to adjust this or whatever, but it's such a strange sensation.

Like it is a thing that you have to train your fingers to do because if you just do what you would do to half press a real camera button, you've pressed it all the way. That's too far. So it's like... how do I half press this button? And you have to press so much lighter than you think. And I know there's this preference to adjust this or whatever, but it's such a strange sensation.

You're like, am I even pressing it? Or am I just thinking hard about pressing it and it activates it? You can do it. You can learn to do it. But it is so much more of a precise, delicate gesture than I expected it to be. I fully expected... I've been half pressing shutter buttons for... you know, years and years, right? Decades, right?

You're like, am I even pressing it? Or am I just thinking hard about pressing it and it activates it? You can do it. You can learn to do it. But it is so much more of a precise, delicate gesture than I expected it to be. I fully expected... I've been half pressing shutter buttons for... you know, years and years, right? Decades, right?

I fully expected it would just be completely natural for me to half press it. Absolutely not. It is so much more delicate than I thought it would be, which I don't personally mind because I think I'm never going to use those menus now that I've experienced them. I don't think I'm ever going to use them to adjust anything. Maybe I'll do the zoom one because it has the advantage.

I fully expected it would just be completely natural for me to half press it. Absolutely not. It is so much more delicate than I thought it would be, which I don't personally mind because I think I'm never going to use those menus now that I've experienced them. I don't think I'm ever going to use them to adjust anything. Maybe I'll do the zoom one because it has the advantage.

I hate pinching to zoom. It has the advantage that I can zoom while, you know, having the phone in like,

I hate pinching to zoom. It has the advantage that I can zoom while, you know, having the phone in like,

camera taking position right in landscape mode or whatever without me having to like take one of my hands off of the phone and use it to pinch the screen i think zoom is the one that's most likely for me to use but in practice i've never actually used it other than when i was experimenting with it just because i hate going into that mode i can't even decide which one to keep it on i think i settled on keeping it on zoom because it's the one i'm most likely to use but

camera taking position right in landscape mode or whatever without me having to like take one of my hands off of the phone and use it to pinch the screen i think zoom is the one that's most likely for me to use but in practice i've never actually used it other than when i was experimenting with it just because i hate going into that mode i can't even decide which one to keep it on i think i settled on keeping it on zoom because it's the one i'm most likely to use but

i would just much rather adjust those things on the screen and i'm with marco like i understand how the ui goes away when you do that or whatever i would just rather always see it like again that should probably be a setting or whatever

i would just much rather adjust those things on the screen and i'm with marco like i understand how the ui goes away when you do that or whatever i would just rather always see it like again that should probably be a setting or whatever

But, you know, for taking a photo and for having it as a shutter button, I've heard a lot of people complaining that the positioning is bad, that it should be closer to the corner, and maybe that would have gotten out of my accidental activation area. But I'm mostly happy with the position.

But, you know, for taking a photo and for having it as a shutter button, I've heard a lot of people complaining that the positioning is bad, that it should be closer to the corner, and maybe that would have gotten out of my accidental activation area. But I'm mostly happy with the position.

I take pretty much all my pictures in landscape mode, but occasionally in portrait, and I find it works for both of them. I have it launching the camera. I have it launching the camera on a single press. The reason I can get away with it is that when I accidentally activate it,

I take pretty much all my pictures in landscape mode, but occasionally in portrait, and I find it works for both of them. I have it launching the camera. I have it launching the camera on a single press. The reason I can get away with it is that when I accidentally activate it,

It's because I'm picking up a locked phone off the table or whatever, and when you hit it on a locked phone, it doesn't launch the camera app. It just wakes it up first, and you have to hit it again to launch the camera app, which is a nice defense against me accidentally launching the camera app.

It's because I'm picking up a locked phone off the table or whatever, and when you hit it on a locked phone, it doesn't launch the camera app. It just wakes it up first, and you have to hit it again to launch the camera app, which is a nice defense against me accidentally launching the camera app.

I'm still accidentally hitting the button a lot, but the consequences are not significant because when I'm doing that, it's almost always when I'm picking up a locked phone, so I don't actually find myself landing in the camera app. Within, I think, maybe... Less than a minute of my wife picking up my phone, she had accidentally taken a picture with the camera control. I should have saved it.