To the creator of the video, some horizontal shots would have been helpful. Watching from an iMac and seeing those blurry side frames is painful.
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iPhone 16 Pro Max: One Week Camera Review
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My wife is experiencing this first hand.
She has completely disabled the button.
lucky me, I stopped putting a case on my phone a while back.
but I am not in the market for a new phone anyway. I too much enjoy my Mini's form factor.Can launch the camera app from the lock screen, use the volume button to take pictures… this new button looks like a solution looking for a problem. And a fiddly solution at that. I guess I will make my real opinion once I have the new camera.
Yes. You are correct. But it is inconvenient and not all of us are that capable with our left hand. And I do use it but it is always awkward. Better to use my normal shutter finger as Apple realised. Taking pictures with any phone is an ergonomic nightmare.
Most people these days take pictures vertically anyway, I guess Apple will see if this button gets used or not in due time.
I really hope you are wrong since it implies no one views photos or videos on anything but a phone. I don’t but you are probably right and it makes the phone as a photographic capture device useless to me if it is only designed for one format. Sigh.
Apple put this button on the phone because they know the 16 series is a lackluster offering. The button is absolutely gimmicky and honestly the only thing Apple can really present that is different than the last couple of offerings.
So. Move on to iPhone 17.
Now, they will actually offer something that constitutes an upgrade, get rid of the gimmicky camera button that quite a few people have bought and probably don't like. This will get people more apt to upgrade from the 16 to 17, and definitely will tempt the few holdout 14 and 15 series owners.
So. Move on to iPhone 17.
Now, they will actually offer something that constitutes an upgrade, get rid of the gimmicky camera button that quite a few people have bought and probably don't like. This will get people more apt to upgrade from the 16 to 17, and definitely will tempt the few holdout 14 and 15 series owners.
Getting rid of the camera button, but adding the mute switch again - now that would actually entice me to buy a new iPhone.
The mute switch never left; it’s in the same place but now it’s a customizable button instead. I don’t see what’s wrong with that because it’s a hell of a lot more useful now than an on-and-off toggle.
My dream would be a bigger, square sensor. I end up taking most of my pictures twice, portrait and landscape, depending what device they will be viewed on. If I watch pictures on my phone I like them to be portrait, but on my tablet or laptop I like them to be landscape. And then it depends on what platform I post them. So I guess there are valid use cases for both orientations.
My problem is that I see the world in landscape, as I think almost everyone does (I think people who only have one eye active see the format as a square or still landscape with reduced horizontal viewing angle: someone who actually knows may add factual information here) and therefore portrait mode is only for artistic purposes where the subject is limited to a vertical format.
Videos in portrait format, in particular (there are justifiable reasons for photographs to be taken in portrait mode) are very irritating to me as my eyes are constantly scanning the slit which has something I need to see and by the other 60 to 70% of my viewing angle that has no content and has to be filled with something. Most people's eyes are constantly scanning around them (especially horizontally) and is used by the brain to fill in their environment and confining the subject to a small slit in the middle of your vision is visually tiring and irritating. I find vertical videos to be a complete waste of space. I think they are taken like this, not because they are done for artistic reasons, but because the videographer cannot be bothered to rotate the phone through 90 deg. Instead they wildly swing the phone from side to side so that they can encompass their field of view. There are a very large number of times I have felt that instead of constantly panning the camera from side to side they should simply rotate the phone through 90deg. Of course Tik Tok and You Tubes have encouraged this poor videography. If someone sends me a vertically orientated video, I watch it once on my phone and delete it. It is a waste of space on my laptop, iPad and TV so basically is pointless and just a tribute to lazy videography.
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Apple could have discouraged vertical videos from the very start by forcing the user to rotate the phone to landscape if they wanted to record videos, same way they force you now if you want to record spatial video. I don't care what the video is I refuse to watch it if it's been recorded vertically as that format is horrific to watch.
Super cool that editing 4k video on your Mac with iMovie ditches 75% of the frames! Maybe they should update the Calendar app to only show 2 days out of every week for consistency.
You are of course correct and I agree. My statement was only referred to the fact that I kinda want to "blend in" with the trends. Of course I prefer landscape videos, but you cannot be relevant on any new social media platform unless you publish videos "the wrong way". Whether that matters or not to you (or anyone else) is a different discussion. I just like to post stuff on social media here and there, and I notice that landscape content hardly gets any attention, which is sad.
A bit random but……what is the distance between the power button and the camera button in mm ? I’m thinking of grips, tripod mounts etc being able (or unable) to attach with pressing buttons in the process
Requirements differ by mount, but my tripod mount fits nicely between the power and camera buttons, without fouling the volume up and down buttons on the otherside.