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Poll results: manual camera controls – not for everybody

Poll results: manual camera controls – not for everybody

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 09:10 , by Preslav Kateliev

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Poll results: manual camera controls – not for everybody

It's a pretty modern thing to have manual controls on your phone's camera app. Well, unless you are Apple, who actually decided to take out the HDR button completely on the iPhone 8 (no worries, you can get it back, look here). That aside, most major players now have a “pro” mode or “manual” mode on their apps, letting users adjust ISO, shutter speed, color temperature, and focus as they desire.

But the phone makers have also been achieving amazing results with their handsets' image post-processing. Auto modes have become extremely competent — they are super-fast and often better at picking the right settings for a scene than your average users.

So, we were curious, now that we've all had a couple of years to play with manual cameras. Are we over them? Do you use the “pro” mode on your camera app, or do you just do the point and shoot with the auto mode? Well, here's how that poll went:

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Do you use your phone camera's manual / "pro" mode?: Yeah, I love it! 50.06% (841 votes) (841 votes); Very rarely 29.46% (495 votes) (495 votes); Nah, not for me 20.48% (344 votes) (344 votes)

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posted on 19 Oct 2017, 09:44 7

1. trojan_horse (banned) (Posts: 5868; Member since: 06 May 2016)

Well, the majority said they love manual controls, so that's close to it being for everybody.

posted on 19 Oct 2017, 10:11 3

2. Ezio2710 (Posts: 548; Member since: 22 Aug 2015)

Explain this PA

https://www.phonearena.com/news/And-the-main-reason-not-to-buy-the-iPhone-8-is...-iPhone-X-poll-results_id99064

Compare both poll results

posted on 19 Oct 2017, 10:15 1

3. Ezio2710 (Posts: 548; Member since: 22 Aug 2015)

In this article more tha 20% users voted for manual, but PA conclude Manual is not for everyone.

Whereas in iphone article, most of the users avoid the 1st poll, but PA........ How pathetic

posted on 19 Oct 2017, 10:50 4

6. PhoneCritic (Posts: 1279; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)

That's why I always call out PA on their Hypocrisy? And I really believe no one should take their reviews and comparisons seriously today ( there use to be a time in PA history where they were very even with every vendor but it seems that has all changed since the last few years).

posted on 19 Oct 2017, 10:16

4. piyath (Posts: 2136; Member since: 23 Mar 2012)

Android fanboys will vote for anything which iPhone doesn't have. Apple haters will rule these polls no matter what.