Newbie camera question: how to touch to focus and shoot

[chr1sny]

Pardon the newbie question. I searched but couldn't find a quick answer.

How do you set it up the camera app so that when you press the screen it focuses and takes a picture with one press on the screen? I don't want to touch the screen to focus and then touch the screen again to take the picture.

I'm coming from a moto x and HTC one which allow you to touch the screen once to focus the camera and take the picture.

Thanks!

 

[B. Diddy]

I don't think that's a feature of the stock camera on the N5. You may want to try a 3rd party camera like Camera Zoom FX.

 

[Shilohcane]

That would add a lot of extra delay and would be like we had before the 4.2 update that took too long to get an action shot. I do wish it had a verbal command to take the picture so you could hold the phone with both hands to keep it steady.

 

[anon(8256055)]

Hold the phone with both hands and use the volume button to take the shot.

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[B. Diddy]

Nice tip! I wasn't aware of that.

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[patruns]

I must be missing something. I only have to tap the screen trigger once to focus and shoot.

Agree, nice tip about the volume control!

 

[B. Diddy]

I must be missing something. I only have to tap the screen trigger once to focus and shoot.

Agree, nice tip about the volume control!

I believe OP was talking about tapping the image to focus on a particular part, and wants that to trigger the shutter as well. If you task the shutter button, it will focus first, but you can't control what it focuses on.

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[chr1sny]

I believe OP was talking about tapping the image to focus on a particular part, and wants that to trigger the shutter as well. If you task the shutter button, it will focus first, but you can't control what it focuses on.

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Correct! Thanks for the tips so far about using a third party camera app.