Galaxy Z Flip Flex Mode now lets you take photos in more dramatic angles

Last updated: April 17th, 2020 at 11:xviii UTC+01:00

As nosotros pointed out in our Galaxy Z Flip review, the Flex Manner is 1 of the most useful features of Samsung's latest foldable smartphone. Basically, it allows the Milky way Z Flip to become its own tripod so that y'all tin can make video calls and accept photos completely hands-free by merely setting the device downwards on a flat surface.

Samsung is now making this feature even more than useful. An upcoming Galaxy Z Flip software update will go far possible to switch the location of the preview and controls in the photographic camera screen up-side-down. This will let you to apply Flex Mode to take photos in more than dramatic angles.

The camera preview can now exist flipped up-side-down

The native Camera app is one of the very few apps that dynamically change their interface when the Galaxy Z Flip is in Flex Mode. The preview shrinks and occupies the summit half while the bottom displays the camera controls.

One time the update is installed, it will be possible to flip the two effectually. You lot'll just have to double tap on the preview window when in Flex Fashion and it will automatically shift from the top to the bottom half of the device. The idea for this feature appears to have come from the tilt screen displays found in DSLR cameras. They articulate so you lot can easily keep an eye on the framing of the photograph even in an extreme bending, something that becomes way also hard without a display that tin can tilt.

The Galaxy Z Flip'due south camera setup is placed in the top half where the camera preview is normally displayed. Past switching it to the bottom half, you can easily keep an eye on the framing while setting the elevation half in equally extreme an angle as you'd like. This volition allow you to capture dramatic low-angle activeness videos to aesthetically pleasing top-down food photos. You lot can see how information technology works in the GIF below.

Samsung says that the software update which brings this functionality to the Galaxy Z Flip will start rolling out this week. What practice y'all think about this, volition it help elevate your photography game on the Galaxy Z Flip?