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For Photos, Is Bigger/Wider/Heavier Phone Better for Users w Tremors?

Started Dec 18, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP Joseph T Lewis III Veteran Member • Posts: 3,593
Re: For Photos, Is Bigger/Wider/Heavier Phone Better for Users w Tremors?

Richard_CC wrote:

Maybe get the phone you want and look at cases - some are rubberized and pretty chunky for people who work outdoors etc. and make the phone easier to grip and handle. That way you have a pocket-able phone (without the case) or an easier to handle phone with the case.

I moved from a Huawei P10 to a P30 recently (I don't need or like anything too big) and one thing I have noticed is shutter speed. The newer one lets the shutter speed slow long way before it begins to raise the ISO, I guess it relies on its intelligent stabilization unlike we older humans who long ago learned that the slowest safe shutter speed is the inverse of the focal length (1/50 for 50mm, 1/200 for 200mm and so on). I have an early model Sony RX100 which does the same on auto, goes down to 1/30 at max aperture before it cranks up the ISO - 1/30 is far to slow for some things.

In both cases you can take manual control, the phone has 'pro' mode and the camera does shutter priority.

Perhaps check that you can do that with whatever phone you buy - it sounds like in some cases it might help you. Mine has an inbuilt pro mode, there is an android app called open camera which does much the same thing, not sure about apple /Ios.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

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