Show HN: Rotate-To-Snap
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Show HN: Rotate-To-Snap
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#2> Tap to snap / hold for video
How do I focus?
I've been working on an app that utilizes this user interaction, and what I've come up with is double tap to take a picture. Don't focus until you're sure there's no second tap (a few hundred ms). Or you could always just add a simple camera button, which solves this problem.
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#3> Tap to snap / hold for video How do I focus? I've been working on an app that utilizes this user interaction, and what I've come up with is double tap to take a picture. Don't focus until you're sure there's no second tap (a few hundred ms). Or you could always just add a simple camera button, which solves this problem.
I'm assuming autofocus is so good these days, for snapshots you can live without it.
Another option would be that focussing and the shutter are the same action.
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#4> With the advent of bigger screens on our mobile phones, typing in portrait-mode with two hands becomes easier
True.
> and landscape mode for keyboards less of a necessity.
Also true, but neither means I would forgo my landscape mode, especially when I can hold down the camera icon on my iPhone for the same effect.
Nice idea, it's just that more elegant solutions exist :)
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#5> With the advent of bigger screens on our mobile phones, typing in portrait-mode with two hands becomes easier True. > and landscape mode for keyboards less of a necessity. Also true, but neither means I would forgo my landscape mode, especially when I can hold down the camera icon on my iPhone for the same effect. Nice idea, it's just that more elegant solutions exist :)
Yeah, the regular camera on the iPhone is perfect.
This explores how to trigger it differently in apps though (like Instagram or whatsapp). I wanted to find out if it's easier to learn a gesture than to learn tap sequences.
What to you think?
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#6> Tap to snap / hold for video How do I focus? I've been working on an app that utilizes this user interaction, and what I've come up with is double tap to take a picture. Don't focus until you're sure there's no second tap (a few hundred ms). Or you could always just add a simple camera button, which solves this problem.
What's the name of the app? I'd love to see it.
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#7> With the advent of bigger screens on our mobile phones, typing in portrait-mode with two hands becomes easier True. > and landscape mode for keyboards less of a necessity. Also true, but neither means I would forgo my landscape mode, especially when I can hold down the camera icon on my iPhone for the same effect. Nice idea, it's just that more elegant solutions exist :)
Yeah, the regular camera on the iPhone is perfect. This explores how to trigger it differently in apps though (like Instagram or whatsapp). I wanted to find out if it's easier to learn a gesture than to learn tap sequences. What to you think?
Gestures replacing taps/clicks (desktop metaphors) was one of the things I wanted to explore with this.
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#8> Tap to snap / hold for video How do I focus? I've been working on an app that utilizes this user interaction, and what I've come up with is double tap to take a picture. Don't focus until you're sure there's no second tap (a few hundred ms). Or you could always just add a simple camera button, which solves this problem.
> How do I focus?
I've assumed that "Tap to snap..." works on the (right) button area only and tapping the photo triggers focus. This isn't clear though.
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#9> Tap to snap / hold for video How do I focus? I've been working on an app that utilizes this user interaction, and what I've come up with is double tap to take a picture. Don't focus until you're sure there's no second tap (a few hundred ms). Or you could always just add a simple camera button, which solves this problem.
> How do I focus? I've assumed that "Tap to snap..." works on the (right) button area only and tapping the photo triggers focus. This isn't clear though.
Thank you for the feedback. I hadn't thought that it could be interpreted that way.
The idea is that it tapping and holding for photo/video works anywhere on the screen.
I also would like it to focus on tap (shooting = focussing)
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#10This is a neat concept. It could potentially solve the vertical videos problem we have lately with smartphone cameras in everyone's pockets. My only nitpick is the "tap to take a picture/hold to record a video" control scheme. A viable alternative would be: tap to focus, tap and hold for a menu (think Galaxy Note 4 Air Command) where you can toggle flash, choose photo or video, etc.