Re: [Usability] Re: Screenshots as videos

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 14 Jun 2005, at 20:27, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> Taking this analogy further, wouldn't it be annoying if every time you
> tried to take a picture, you had to select still 'image or video' in a
> dialog on the camera. (-:

Well, effectively you do... you have to put it into still or video  
mode before you start.  Alright, it's turning a dial rather than  
pressing a button (on my digicam at least), but the up-front step  
still exists.

And the fact that you can do them both with the same device, albeit  
not as well as you could with dedicated separate ones, is kind of  
analogous to having discount versions of both features in the same  
dialog instead of using separate, dedicated image and video editing  
tools...

But you're right, analogies suck :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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