[ilyt]

Gopro mount gonna be far cheaper than those

> I have come to loathe my phone as a camera. Yes it works with gloves on, but every day it ends up covered in oil and grease. Holding it is awkward, you have to do a bunch of swipey things to make the camera work, the 3D Touch (or whatever it's called now) is somewhat random with gloves, and I've lost count of the number of times it's got itself stuck in portrait or panorama mode. Those of you with daughters will understand this ultimate critique - it was worth it to me to bribe my grumpy pre-teen to operate the camera rather than fighting it myself.

Yeah, I wish my phone was like 3x thicker and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

[z2h-a6n]

> Yeah, I wish my phone was like 3x thicker and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

Surely this part is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Digital cameras still exist.

[rtkwe]

Or a smaller action cam like the Insta360 Go. It even has a water resistant body with a single somewhat configurable body button you could hit to start recording the clip. It’s a third the size and weight of a GoPro though the video is definitely inferior.

[pests]

What will the GoPro mount solve?

> and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

That would be amazing.

[maroonblazer]

> What will the GoPro mount solve?

Hands-free video recording, ala J Kenji Lopez Alt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFjuglEAds

[pests]

Totally different use case though. That's chest mounted pointing down. Sure, useful for some. Perfect for something like cooking.

The benefit here I think is a more literal WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get. You see it, you get the photo of it.

[maroonblazer]

Nope, head-mounted.

https://media.gq.com/photos/621e6cade2354d618c84380a/master/...

[pests]

Its still offset. If I turn my head sideways to look between something or under a car or anything close to the face really is out of focus or not even in view.

[bigbluesax]

Just do this ;) https://www.instagram.com/reel/BLO7_P_jIcR/

[xp84]

I’m with you man. Touchscreen reliance is cancer.

[xarope]

did you miss typing /s at the end

but in all seriousness, I do still bring an olympus tg5 "brick" for my climbing/mountaineering trips, because phones are just too cumbersome to take pictures with, when hanging off the side of a cliff, wearing gloves, at below freezing temps etc.