You can also press
the onscreen shutter button to start sharpening your scene.
It's actually downright frustrating with its focusing difficulties and the considerable lag between the moment you trigger
the onscreen shutter button and the final result.
We do like the inclusion of the dedicated camera button, and while we though there's a chance it could be introducing some movement that's causing the blurring, switching to
the onscreen shutter button didn't make much difference.
As of this writing, the virtual
onscreen shutter button is the only way to take pics.
Not exact matches
This model doesn't have a hardware «
shutter»
button, so it's a case of jabbing
onscreen to take a picture and you miss out on the quick launch option that
button provided on previous models.
Along the top edge of the phone, next to the power and volume
buttons, is a sliding switch that activates the camera and a
shutter - release
button — no need to tap icons and navigate
onscreen menus to start shooting.
I did find the option to use the volume
buttons as a
shutter keys rather more useful however, and even though the Galaxy A3 is far from unwieldy it feels far more natural to use the volume keys (rather than the
onscreen button) when snapping shots in landscape orientation.