{"id":17731,"date":"2020-05-31T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2575671"},"modified":"2020-05-31T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:06:00","slug":"we-asked-you-told-us-camera-flashes-are-basically-now-just-flashlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/31\/we-asked-you-told-us-camera-flashes-are-basically-now-just-flashlights\/","title":{"rendered":"We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/what-is-night-mode-and-how-does-it-work-979590\/\">Night mode<\/a>&nbsp;on our smartphone cameras has gotten&nbsp;<strong>so good<\/strong>&nbsp;over the years.<\/p>\n<p><em>How good?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Night mode on our smartphone cameras has gotten&nbsp;<strong>so good<\/strong>&nbsp;over the years, that people are very rarely using their camera flash for taking photos. We asked you last week on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/camera-flash-flashlight-poll-1123053\/\">website<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndroidAuth\/status\/1265322014765711362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-vars-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndroidAuth\/status\/1265322014765711362\">Twitter<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/post\/UgzOtZfvnyNanOSaEMp4AaABCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-vars-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/post\/UgzOtZfvnyNanOSaEMp4AaABCQ\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;to tell us what you use your camera flash for. Nearly 20,000&nbsp;<em>Android Authority<\/em>&nbsp;fans voted, and the results are very clear.<\/p>\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<p>The majority of voters (61.27%) said they only use their camera flash as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/best-android-flashlight-apps-with-no-extra-permissions-568939\/\">flashlight<\/a>, completely foregoing its use for nighttime shots. 31.45% of voters said they use their camera flash for taking photos&nbsp;<strong>and<\/strong>&nbsp;for the flashlight feature, while just 2.37% of people(470 votes) only use it as a camera flash.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should stop referring to these as camera flashes and start calling them flashlights.<\/p>\n<p>The results shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprising here. Jokes aside, night mode really is the biggest boon to low-light photography we&rsquo;ve ever seen in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/best-android-phones-568001\/\">smartphone<\/a>&nbsp;landscape. Using night mode in lieu of a physical camera flash does make a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/camera-flash-flashlight-poll-1123053\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/camera-flash-flashlight-poll-1123053\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Jimmy Westenberg<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Jimmy Westenberg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night mode&nbsp;on our smartphone cameras has gotten&nbsp;so good&nbsp;over the years. How good?! Night mode on our smartphone cameras has gotten&nbsp;so good&nbsp;over the years, that people are very rarely using their camera flash for taking photos. We asked you last week on the&nbsp;website,&nbsp;Twitter, and&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;to tell us what you use your camera flash for. Nearly 20,000&nbsp;Android Authority&nbsp;fans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/31\/we-asked-you-told-us-camera-flashes-are-basically-now-just-flashlights\/\">Continue reading <span>We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/31\/we-asked-you-told-us-camera-flashes-are-basically-now-just-flashlights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/31\/we-asked-you-told-us-camera-flashes-are-basically-now-just-flashlights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Night mode&nbsp;on our smartphone cameras has gotten&nbsp;so good&nbsp;over the years. 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