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Use mac as shutter release for iPhone camera?
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<blockquote data-quote="pjbateman" data-source="post: 1207100" data-attributes="member: 196180"><p>Thanks for your great suggestions! I'm not convinced enough that the third-party apps are using the same API that the native app uses, and I cannot afford for there to be any discrepancies. In addition, I need to test the native HDR Photography feature within the native app, which hinders any possible workaround using the third-party apps.</p><p></p><p>Your suggestion to program a bespoke application to trigger the shutter is a good one. I have a computer science background, so should be able to put something together for this.</p><p></p><p>The easiest solution seems to be your third suggestion: stabilising the tripod as much as possible, and minimising the force applied to the screen-based shutter release. It would have just been nice to completely remove the possibility of camera movement by way of some remote shutter.</p><p></p><p>I can see why the AppStore cannot provide a solution to this, since these developed apps can only control their own functionality and cannot modify Apple's Apps or functionality. I can therefore only hope that Apple release support for this in future software updates, perhaps allowing a setting change to use the headphone play/pause button to act as a shutter release. There is indeed an app for Jailbroken iPhones called 'CameraButtons' that allows the assignment of the shutter release to the volume up/down buttons on the handset. If only Apple would release a software equivalent...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pjbateman, post: 1207100, member: 196180"] Thanks for your great suggestions! I'm not convinced enough that the third-party apps are using the same API that the native app uses, and I cannot afford for there to be any discrepancies. In addition, I need to test the native HDR Photography feature within the native app, which hinders any possible workaround using the third-party apps. Your suggestion to program a bespoke application to trigger the shutter is a good one. I have a computer science background, so should be able to put something together for this. The easiest solution seems to be your third suggestion: stabilising the tripod as much as possible, and minimising the force applied to the screen-based shutter release. It would have just been nice to completely remove the possibility of camera movement by way of some remote shutter. I can see why the AppStore cannot provide a solution to this, since these developed apps can only control their own functionality and cannot modify Apple's Apps or functionality. I can therefore only hope that Apple release support for this in future software updates, perhaps allowing a setting change to use the headphone play/pause button to act as a shutter release. There is indeed an app for Jailbroken iPhones called 'CameraButtons' that allows the assignment of the shutter release to the volume up/down buttons on the handset. If only Apple would release a software equivalent... [/QUOTE]
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