A quick 1x /
2x zoom button is still present just above the mode name (above the shutter button), allowing for quick movement between common zoom modes.
Dynamic range optimization also ramps down, meaning if you're shooting a sunset and need zoom you may be better off using the HDR mode and using the pinch gesture digital zoom rather than the separate
2x zoom button.
Likewise Huawei offers a 1x /
2x zoom button in these two modes, however it's not an enhanced zoom like the optical zoom on some other dual - camera phones offers, just a quick way to switch between 1x and 2x digital zoom modes, meaning the picture won't be any clearer than if you had just cropped the full resolution image.
When in wide aperture mode or portrait mode you'll find a quick floating 1x /
2x zoom button that appears on side of the middle of the viewfinder, which helps to crop the frame to someone's head for better portrait shots, or just more dramatic «bokeh style» effect on objects.
With the exception of the new
2X zoom button, Samsung's camera app remains practically identical to the one found in the S8.
Five LEDs above that display the current sound level in the nursery, and are power and battery - life indicators,
a 2x zoom button, a talk button, and a built - in mic for two - way audio.
They've retained the quick - jump
2x zoom button from the OnePlus 5, though this time it is all being handled via software as opposed to the mix of optical and software - assisted zoom in the OnePlus 5.
Not exact matches
Without using portrait mode, hitting the
2X button on the OnePlus 5T still
zooms into the frame, but the image is obviously a crop of the original sensor.
The long and short of it is that you can hit a handy
2x button on the screen to grab a
zoomed in picture really quickly.
Sometimes in low - light environments, hitting the
2x button to
zoom results in digital enhancement instead of optical.
You can toggle HDR mode, Portrait mode, flash, and switch between
2x and 1x
zoom with these
buttons.
And just like the iPhone 7 Plus, a single tap on a
button in the OnePlus 5's camera app switches from the wide - angle lens to the telephoto lens, thus enabling
2x optical
zoom.
The
2x zoom function remains, but now it's handled digitally, and in good light a single tap of the «1x»
button on - screen jumps you into «
2x» mode with little noticeable quality loss.
With the two lens, you get a
2x optical
zoom just by tapping a
button.
It's handy to be able to flick that
2x zoom on and off with an on - screen
button, and then to ratchet up further to 8x digital
zoom with a slider if required.
You won't see the difference in the app, because you can always tap that
2x button to get a
zoomed view and take
zoomed photos.
You can tap the «
2x»
button in the camera app to quickly switch to this lens and take photos with a unique perspective — and because it has 20MP of resolution you can even digitally
zoom in a tad without losing much fidelity.
You press a
button and you can do one of two things: you can jump to
2x with a tap (optical
zoom).
After opening the camera app, I could
zoom in
2x by just tapping a
button on screen; then I could press and hold the same
button and drag my finger to the right to
zoom up to 10x.
«Right now, what this means is that you can switch to a true
2x zoom by tapping on a
button, which is very nice,» writes Nilay Patel of The Verge.
There's a brand new
zoom button just above the camera shutter
button that switches between the cameras on the back, toggling between a
2x effective
zoom immediately without any sort of delay between the cameras.