Wheadon's Words; Mark's Mutterings » Desire http://www.markwheadon.com/blog Welcome to Mark Wheadon's blog; I hope you find it useful. Feel free to comment on anything you read here. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:25:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Touch-to-focus under Android http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2010/05/touch-to-focus-android/ http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2010/05/touch-to-focus-android/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 13:55:23 +0000 Mark Wheadon http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=955 Focus left-o-centre

Touch to focus?

Ever wished you could pre-focus the camera on your Android phone? It doesn’t seem to be common knowledge, but you can.

How?

Use the Camera app as usual, but when you take the picture, place the subject in the centre of the image and press and hold the shutter release-button (on-screen on my Nexus One). A couple of seconds later the image will focus. Now recompose your picture with the subject off-centre — the picture is taken when you release the shutter-release button. Simple, once you know.

And no shutter lag

Hold the shutter-release button to focus the subject. Now get people to look your way, smile, etc. When you release the button the picture is taken almost immediately, and taking pictures of moving subjects no longer requires a highly developed sense of precognition ;-)

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