John Young

In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>,
BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:

> Chris Blunt <mail@nospam.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:29:36 -0500, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
>
> >>It's for the third-party camera app, Camera Pro. As far as I know,
> >>there is no option to turn that setting on or off for the built-in
> >>Camera app.
> >
> > "Camera Pro" or ProCamera" ?
>
> I meant ProCamera.
>
> Which I bought after I saw it mentioned earlier in this
> discussion.
>
> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up
> when I double-click on the home button from a locked
> phone. That "get to my camera fast" shortcut is wonderful.

I don't see a locked screen because I have a JB phone and use
"NoLockScreen" so as soon as I wake the phone my fav camera app is right
there. I turn "NoLockScreen" off sometimes for security reasons but I
love not having to go through the locked screen.
john

Howard Brazee

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:14:16 -0700, salgud <spamboy6547@comcast.net>
wrote:

>One of the other reasons I've thought of for using the earphone control is
>if I want to take a self-portrait, but I want to include something/someone
>else it the pic and holding the iPhone at arm's length isn't quite enough.
>You can get a few feet further away (unless you have very long arms) and
>still see the image on the screen. This works great if you and a friend
>want to take some candid shots and want to get everything of interest in
>the picture.

That, and to quiet the shutter click.

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
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- James Madison

Michelle Steiner

In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net
wrote:

> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up when I double-click
> on the home button from a locked phone.

So that's how it's done; I was about to ask how to get the camera icon from
a locked phone.

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BreadWithSpam@fractious.net

Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> writes:

> In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net
> wrote:
>
>> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up when I double-click
>> on the home button from a locked phone.
>
> So that's how it's done; I was about to ask how to get the camera icon from
> a locked phone.

One of my favorite little features of iOS5. And it's done right - the
phone stays locked. You can browse the photos you've just taken, but no
others. Very nicely done.

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salgud

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:21:36 -0500, John Young wrote:

> In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>,
> BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
>
>> Chris Blunt <mail@nospam.com> writes:
>>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:29:36 -0500, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
>>
>>>>It's for the third-party camera app, Camera Pro. As far as I know,
>>>>there is no option to turn that setting on or off for the built-in
>>>>Camera app.
>>>
>>> "Camera Pro" or ProCamera" ?
>>
>> I meant ProCamera.
>>
>> Which I bought after I saw it mentioned earlier in this
>> discussion.
>>
>> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up
>> when I double-click on the home button from a locked
>> phone. That "get to my camera fast" shortcut is wonderful.
>
> I don't see a locked screen because I have a JB phone and use
> "NoLockScreen" so as soon as I wake the phone my fav camera app is right
> there. I turn "NoLockScreen" off sometimes for security reasons but I
> love not having to go through the locked screen.
> john

You don't have to jb to get rid of the Lock Screen, just turn it off in
settings. Turn it back on when you want.

John Young

In article <sjcbxlh3krlm$.8627osn0vj7q$.dlg@40tude.net>,
salgud <spamboy6547@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:21:36 -0500, John Young wrote:
>
> > In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>,
> > BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
> >
> >> Chris Blunt <mail@nospam.com> writes:
> >>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:29:36 -0500, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>>It's for the third-party camera app, Camera Pro. As far as I know,
> >>>>there is no option to turn that setting on or off for the built-in
> >>>>Camera app.
> >>>
> >>> "Camera Pro" or ProCamera" ?
> >>
> >> I meant ProCamera.
> >>
> >> Which I bought after I saw it mentioned earlier in this
> >> discussion.
> >>
> >> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up
> >> when I double-click on the home button from a locked
> >> phone. That "get to my camera fast" shortcut is wonderful.
> >
> > I don't see a locked screen because I have a JB phone and use
> > "NoLockScreen" so as soon as I wake the phone my fav camera app is right
> > there. I turn "NoLockScreen" off sometimes for security reasons but I
> > love not having to go through the locked screen.
> > john
>
> You don't have to jb to get rid of the Lock Screen, just turn it off in
> settings. Turn it back on when you want.
Then my phone won't auto sleep. I want it to sleep but not wake to a
lock screen.
john

Todd Allcock

At 03 Feb 2012 01:30:26 -0500 BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> writes:
>
> > In article <yobobth0x7h.fsf@panix1.panix.com>,
BreadWithSpam@fractious.net
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Now if only I could make it the camera that comes up when I double-
click
> >> on the home button from a locked phone.
> >
> > So that's how it's done; I was about to ask how to get the camera
icon from
> > a locked phone.
>
> One of my favorite little features of iOS5. And it's done right - the
> phone stays locked. You can browse the photos you've just taken, but no
> others. Very nicely done.


Windows Phone says "you're welcome..."

Dillon Pyron

Thus spake Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> :

>On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:55:16 -0500, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <3ecji75irm7f8rrad87ve1madjji26vhj1@4ax.com>, Howard Brazee
>><howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody here use external lens on their iPad?
>>
>>the camera is too crappy to matter.
>>
>>the iphone, on the other hand, has many external lens options.
>
>I misspelled "iPhone". We'll see how the iPad 3's camera is. I
>have seen a room full of parents filming their kindergarten kids - one
>with an iPad which allowed me to see the picture clearly from the back
>of the room. Everybody else had cameras or phones.

I'm truly surprised at the number of people who have decided that
whatever crap quality they get from a phone suffices. For video I
have a choice of cameras. For stills I have three Minolta film
cameras (one of which almost always has some Kodachrome 64 (RIP)) and
my Sony Alpha (soom to be two). Lots and lots of glass. I've had
people tell me "oh, but it's an 8 megapixel camers." With a fifty
cent piece of plastic for a lens.

>
>At least one external lens kit for the iPhone requires an iPhone case.
>Others might work with iPads. But none work with my iPad 1...
>
>So, with my correction - how have you liked iPhone external lenses?

I haven't seen any that were adaptable to more than the iPhone.

The Jan issue of Wired has a review of four lenses. All of them used
some sort of adapter that prevent the use of other, more secure, third
party cases/bumpers/anything that avoids buying a new phone every
couple of months.
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starve your people enough they'll be too weak to rebbel."
"You have the same number of holes in your head as when
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and antiacraft misslles." "Your neck," shouted Hussein,
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Lipitor and insulin!"

Howard Brazee

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:17:52 -0600, Dillon Pyron
<invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>I'm truly surprised at the number of people who have decided that
>whatever crap quality they get from a phone suffices.

The best camera is the one you have with you. Certainly we can't
get top results with the lens on an iPhone, no matter what software is
behind it. But we get better results than the camera that's
several miles away at home!

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

nospam

In article <ioukj7h78uovu32nfhmd0nt53sc18tkbd7@4ax.com>, Howard Brazee
<howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> >I'm truly surprised at the number of people who have decided that
> >whatever crap quality they get from a phone suffices.
>
> The best camera is the one you have with you. Certainly we can't
> get top results with the lens on an iPhone, no matter what software is
> behind it. But we get better results than the camera that's
> several miles away at home!

very true, and the camera in the iphone 4 and certainly the 4s are
quite good, comparable to and possibly better than what's back at home.
not everyone has a dslr & a bunch of lenses.