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This sounds like a good way to drain the battery, and it will only work when no flash is required.



Presumably it's quite cheap if you have enough RAM and hardware JPEG acceleration; the camera has to capture a string of images to display on the screen anyway.


Nothing comes without a cost.


Still better than nothing.




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