standalone camera

A “standalone camera” is just a term for what most people regarded as “a camera” during photography’s first 165 years, before the advent of smartphones: a one-purpose device, the sole function of which is recording photographs (and more recently, videos) that was rarely called a “device.”

Or, as they are described in #8 of this brief, standalones are “old-fashioned, single-purpose ‘cameras’ that are completely unable to make phone calls or play video games.”

Because TTG is never device-dependent, the Trust Test is written so that any actions that are permissible when using a smartphone are also permissible when using a standalone camera.

Not that either tool is best in all situations: as this page notes (in #7 and #9, respectively), focus-stacking and HDR are difficult to do with a standalone camera (because of P5’s “one-second” rule), while getting long exposures of the night sky without showing star trails can be difficult when photographing with a smartphone.