The reason LG uses a wide-angle camera in the rotated
mode is so that it can do a marvelous “virtual gimbal”
trick. The bottom screen turns into a joystick control
that lets you “pan” the camera digitally across the lens’
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that it only moves over one axis, or only moves slowly
over both.
The virtual gimbal, I’m excited to say, works. If you lock
the vertical, you get that super-stable gimbal look; if
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moves, but isn’t jittery or jerky. It’s really cool.
A “dual recording” mode records video with the front
and rear cameras at the same time, perfect for letting
you narrate something you’re seeing. There’s an option
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during your own editing process, or as one, so you can
share them immediately.
The camera software isn’t entirely ready, clearly. As
mentioned, everything shot with the rotated camera
turned out blue. Fix a few things, and this camera
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seen in the default camera app on any other phone.
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4-star Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 reviews largely comes
down to the fact that the Z Fold 2’s software feels
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model that hits US shelves later this year has the kinks
worked out, it will be a heck of a cool phone.
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The bottom
screen turns
into a joystick
control that lets
you ‘pan’ the
camera digitally
across the lens’
wide field and
lock the image.