Camera follow smoothness problem

Camera is moving too smooth how can i make it to be fast? tried messing around with my smoothTime variable but no success. code:

  public var player : GameObject;
      var smoothTime = 0.0;
     private var yVelocity = 0.0;
  
  function Update () 
  {
         var newPosition : float = Mathf.SmoothDamp(transform.position.y, player.transform.position.y+7.7f, yVelocity, smoothTime);                     
         transform.position = Vector3(transform.position.x, newPosition, transform.position.z);
     
  }

EDIT: Actually i dont even need smoothness, but i need this because im changing the camera folow position, camera's normal following position is players - 5f but when the player dies i want to change my camera's position to -8f but if I do it with normal camera follow script its changing instantly and its not nice, so i need the camera to shift from -5 to -8.