Living images. What on earth is this

[ebk333]

And what activates it?

I thought the camera function 'capture living images' was basically short video recordings. Apparently its more than this.
Can someone tell me?

 

[gowthamgella]

It's in Lumia camera app settings

 

[Steve Adams]

Living images is a feature lumias had for almost 2 years now and that apple has copied and called it magical and revolutionary.

Its a setting that allows you to take moving pictures from your lumia device. Very cool.

 

[Richard Culverhouse]

OP: Why don't you try it and see for yourself? Basically, it is a picture that has a few frames leading into it. Very cool.

 

[eusty]

Very cool.

....or pointless, depending on your point of view!

 

[Madam ImAdam]

....or pointless, depending on your point of view!

^ exactly. I for one really hate this feature and do not see having a need for it... BUT I am glad that it is an option and that there is a simple way to turn it off.

 

[ebk333]

OP: Why don't you try it and see for yourself? Basically, it is a picture that has a few frames leading into it. Very cool.

Hello there .
Well im not sure what version you have, but my version has a checkbox that permits live pictures. That's it. I turned it on, took a pic and didn't notice anything. I turned it off, took a pic and didn't notice a thing.

 

[taymur]

Hello there .
Well im not sure what version you have, but my version has a checkbox that permits live pictures. That's it. I turned it on, took a pic and didn't notice anything. I turned it off, took a pic and didn't notice a thing.

The effect is viewed in the photos app.

 

[mjyumping]

I don't know where to find the option

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Some phone models do not have living images such as lumia 1020

 

[anon(5354555)]

Good example of poor marketing from Microsoft..again. Lots of cool features yet who knows about them? Apple or Android users, that's who. I have never seen a company this powerful so inept at marketing to consumers from top to bottom.

 

[colinkiama]

Good example of poor marketing from Microsoft..again. Lots of cool features yet who knows about them? Apple or Android users, that's who. I have never seen a company this powerful so inept at marketing to consumers from top to bottom.

1) Why should microsoft market a feature in the OS that hasn't even been completed yet

2) Blame Nokia for not advertising living images at the time when they implemented it first.

 

[erzhik]

The problem with Living Images is that it is way too hard to find it compared to iPhones implementation. Camera is one department where everything should be incredibly quick, it should not take more than 2 steps for any given function. This is why Apple got the camera right on the iPhone, at least the usability part.

 

[mhc48]

The thing I've never understood is, what good is it? Can you pick any of the intro shots to keep instead of the final one (which for me were often better than the final one)? I couldn't figure out how to do that. And can you post a living image anywhere?. So it seemed to me, it was only on my phone that I could see it.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

it should not take more than 2 steps for any given function. This is why Apple got the camera right on the iPhone, at least the usability part.

You mean like the extra step of waking the iPhone up because it doesn't have a camera button?

 

[Blake Seaman]

There are lots of times I think Living Images benefits the experience, and just as many it detracts. Living Images has no place in settings; it needs to be a fast toggle next to rich capture.

 

[7a2eer]

Living images is a feature lumias had for almost 2 years now and that apple has copied and called it magical and revolutionary.

Its a setting that allows you to take moving pictures from your lumia device. Very cool.

A feature that Nokia has had for years, but decided that it was not important enough as to have direct sharing capabilities. The only way to to create an album and upload it to from the story teller app...
Living images could have been a big deal before Apple "invented" them.

P.S: Samsung has had a similar feature too..

 

[romancos]

Living images is a feature lumias had for almost 2 years now and that apple has copied and called it magical and revolutionary.

Its a setting that allows you to take moving pictures from your lumia device. Very cool.

Business as usual.

 

[erzhik]

You mean like the extra step of waking the iPhone up because it doesn't have a camera button?

Well to be fair, you can trigger iPhones camera right from the lock screen. Takes exactly the same amount of time as launching camera with a button on WP.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well to be fair, you can trigger iPhones camera right from the lock screen.

You mean the lock screen you push a button to wake the phone up to see?