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Re: S110 - any way to disable the touch screen?
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amhall wrote:
There are two touch features on the S110 and S120: focus point/object and shutter release. The S120 enables you to turn these on/off individually, but the S110 only allows you to turn off the shutter function, not the focus.
The battery life on the S110 seems much better than the S120.
I suppose the blunt truth of the matter is that we will always each have different opinions and thoughts on the "touch" feature of this type of camera. Personally I intensely dislike any touch feature as I would greatly more wish to have definite positive control of both focussing and shutter action and I'd never buy a camera with the touch feature as mandatory - many others of course like it. so there is no bad or good about it in the full sense.
But out of curiosity I can't help but wonder about one point .. the touch focus action which in the case of the S110 it now seems clear, is a feature you cannot fully turn off... touch SHUTTER action YES.. as it is very clearly said in the Manual.. but I also was not at all sure whether the Touch FOCUS could or not , be fully turned off..it seems not.
But.. and this is where I'm a bit puzzled.. even if you actually leave the camera switched ON although not being used for a period.. doesn't the Auto Switch-off generally only give a modest time before it shuts down. so then, the 'touch' action cannot of course operate - as the camera has switched off. OR.. if you leave the camera ON for such as several minutes without actually taking a pic but in some way actuate the touch-focus by the camera bumping against your body in motion.. does that really matter..surely if you are at all serious about taking pics..whatever has happened to focus whilst you may walk about..when you DO definitely start to take a new pic, you are going to positively get focus quite afresh anyway.. to make sure you get focus properly on the intended new pic - does it matter if any body bump has done that whilst you carry it around... the new pic will normally require you to set a new focus anyway ??