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It’s been a bit over 5 months since I first received my palms on the Google Pixel 8 Professional and shot my first photograph with it. On the time, I instantly seen one infuriating change within the Google Digicam‘s interface that put the brightness, shadows, and temperature sliders behind the settings/changes button as a substitute of preserving them accessible always on the display screen.
And, as you possibly can surmise from the title of this text, I nonetheless hate that change 5 months in. I assumed I’d get used to it and begin tapping the settings button extra typically, however actually, no. That’s not what occurred.
As a substitute, I discover myself not utilizing the brightness, shadows, and temperature controls as a lot as earlier than — in all probability not even in any respect, actually. A crystal clear case of “out of sight, out of thoughts.”
Out of sight, out of thoughts. As a substitute of opening the choices menu extra, I do not use the sliders in any respect now.
One button, that’s all it took. Hiding these away from view together with the extra highly effective choices of the handbook mode menu (shutter pace, focus, ISO) merely ensured that I now not attain for them as a result of I’m lazy generally, and far of my images is spur-of-the-moment photographs, not an elaborate setup. After which, the few occasions I do take the time to enter these settings, I nonetheless detest that each slider is separate, so I’ve to select one and alter it, then decide one other and alter it.
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In distinction, have a look at absolutely the usefulness of these always-there on-screen sliders from the earlier Google Digicam app model! Slide, slide, slide, seize, that was it. Now, it’s open menu, slide, faucet, slide, faucet, slide, and eventually seize. It’s time-consuming and irritating.
Personally, I used to make use of these controls on a regular basis. I’ve simply taken over 10,000 images with my Pixels over the past couple of years alone and I’d say about 10% of these had been shot after a fast handbook adjustment. Now, as a result of I don’t use them, my images has suffered. Sure, the Pixel’s digicam is a superb foolproof digicam in most settings, however generally I simply must loosen up these shadows or alter that coloration temperature a smidge. Most of my use circumstances are small edits, however they make all of the distinction within the closing photograph.
The Pixel digicam is normally foolproof, however generally I simply want a minor change to get an ideal photograph. The sliders allowed that.
I nonetheless discover myself wincing a couple of occasions once I snap a pic and pondering, “Rattling, this photograph wants a minor edit, so I both need to delete it and retake it once more with the right setting or be certain that I edit this one later.” Neither is a quick possibility.
Oh, what I’d give for a setting that allows these sliders once more for these customers, like me, who reached for them on a regular basis and preferred having them there, all the time accessible.
