User Guide

116 Chapter 7 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera
Take a pi ct u re
Your phone has an easy-to-use, 2-megapixel camera with an LED flash. You
can use the camera to take pictures, and then use the Photos app to view
them and send them to your friends and family (see Share a picture). To add
a personal touch to your phone, use your pictures as your wallpaper (see
Save a picture as wallpaper) and as caller ID images (see Add a picture to a
contact).
1 Open Camera .
2 If is hidden, tap to display it.
3 The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed. If
you want to change the flash setting, tap to keep the flash on, and
tap again to keep the flash off.
4 To take the picture in landscape view, turn your phone 90 degrees.
5 Press Space or tap .
The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. You can keep
snapping pictures, and then go to Photos to look at them and delete the
ones you don’t want.
Review pictures
1 After taking a picture, tap the thumbnail of the picture in the lower-left
corner of the screen. This opens the picture in the Photo roll of the
Photos application.
2 Swipe left or right on the screen to view other pictures you took.
Photos
Look at pictures
To get pictures on the phone, you can do any of the following:
• Take a picture with your phone’s camera (see Take a p ic t ure ).
• Copy pictures from your computer (see Copy files between your phone
and your computer).
• Receive pictures as email attachments (see Open email attachments).
TIP Press and hold Space to take pictures in continuous burst mode. Release
Space to stop taking pictures. Continuous burst mode allows you to capture
several images with a single action.
DID YOU KNOW? Your phone offers another way to “take a picture”: You can
save any currently displayed screen as a picture file (also known as a screen
capture or screenshot). When the screen you want is open, press and hold Option
+ Sym + P. The picture is saved to the Screen captures album in Photos, and you
can work with it like any other picture.