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I apologize if this topic has been covered before, but I was not able to find it. I’m wondering if anyone knows how to change the setting on an iPhone that allows it to zoom in while you’re trying to film a golf swing? I was attempting to film yesterday and every time I was set the camera at 1.0 step in to hit the shot or use my watch to start the recording, by the time I was done the phone had zoomed into 1.7 losing parts of the swing in the process. 
I did turn off the stabilization, but that did not have the effect I wanted.

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I don't think I've ever seen that, nor ever heard of that being a setting.

Do you have a phone with the Camera Control button? You were just using the iPhone's default Camera app?

You could try this: Settings > Camera > Record Video > Check (or enable) "Lock Camera" setting.

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Thank you @iacas. I’ll give that a try tomorrow and report back in case it can help anyone else.

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Update

I got a chance to record again today and with the camera lock set to on (or green) it was better but still off. I’ll add a video here and you will see that it zooms in right after impact. It is not as much as it was a couple of days ago but still odd and I would like to be able to turn it off (or on). BTW topic for a different tread but I don’t like the way ios 18 scrubs videos.

And yes, I could have done better with the bottom of the frame. But who needs to see the club head.

 

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I don't know what that is. You still didn't answer the questions I asked above.

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I was using the default camera app.

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On 10/21/2024 at 8:16 AM, iacas said:

Do you have a phone with the Camera Control button?

There's another.

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There is a chance that I had to Google what a camera control button is.🤣

And yes, apparently I do have one of those.

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Your tripod might be squeezing it or something maybe activating the zoom using the Camera Control button.

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It might be time to get a tripod with a MagSafe magnet.

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