2- This is same Apple camera app in landscape mode, look at the icons and NOT the text to see that you are effectively in landscape mode, and note that the button does NOT change position:
4- and here is the weirdness… how can I take a picture when the shooting button changes position and gets far from where I keep my fingers while holding the iDevice?
Am I the only one who thinks this is awkward, and it should be fixed by keeping the same behavior as the Apple camera app, which happens to also be very much ergonomic in terms of usability?
Is it possible that I am the only person using the camera in DTTG? How come no one has found this odd, yet?
Many thanks for any comments you might have.
Bye, Luca
EDIT: since there have been a few upset answers and deleted replies, which were nonetheless helpful for the discussion, I edited some of my messages and included, in anonymous form, the contributions made, for which I thank the user.
I don’t see why I should be forced to lock the phone orientation just to take a single picture. Nice workaround, but very much suboptimal.
You say YMMV to the shooting button position, I presume. So you must be quite upset with Apple putting the button in the “wrong“ spot when taking pictures in landscape mode, I presume.
My point is that of graphical consistency between the underlying OS basic functions, such that of Camera.app, and an application running on the same OS.
Worst case, there should be a configuration switch where the user might select what position he or she wants the button to be.
Yet, I quite like the rationale Apple uses in Camera.app, and it strikes me as odd that DTTG went a completely other way with the placement of the button.
far too many keypresses, and I quite like the fact that the location of where the picture is taken is added as title of the note, which is synced immediately to DEVONthink sync location.
And the picture taken in DEVONthink is NOT stored in the iCloud synced photo stream, and rather kept only within DEVONthink, which is a big plus.
well, you were at my answer, so much so that you deleted your perfectly valid suggestion.
A suggestion which I appreciated, but found more cumbersome, that’s it.
So tell me, how do you like where the button is in landscape mode? Is it better where it is now on DTTG, or is it better in Apple’s Camera.app?
I will keep my reply, since yours allowed me to add a reflection or two. And I like discussions, even though I might disagree with the person with whom I am discussing.
Thanks for these two points - I have previously taken the route via the camera app, and wasn’t actively aware of those advantages, which are noteworthy. As far as the original question is concerned, having the button in the „standard“ - that is Apple - location would seem more logical to me. Can you take a picture in DTTG using one of the volume buttons? (Edit: no, you can’t)
you’re right, I forgot that there is also that option in Camera.app.
By far NOT the way I’d like to take a picture, though, so the fact that you tested it and that it doesn’t work in DTTG makes no difference to the way I use the camera in DTTG.
I was interested to read that you writing that does not automatically refer the thread to development - I have wondered about that since I’ve been around these forums. The wording is always identical, so it could have been a trigger. But you filing a report makes more sense, I guess
