User Guide

142 Chapter 8 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera
Take a pi ct u re
Your phone comes with an easy-to-use 5-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 The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed. To
change the flash setting, tap the icon.
Automatic
Flash always on
Flash always off
3 To take the picture in landscape view, turn your phone 90 degrees.
4 Press Space or tap to take the picture.
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.
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). To take a picture of the currently displayed screen, press
and hold Option + Sym + P. The picture is saved in PNG format to the Screen
captures album in Photos and is stored in the screencaptures folder of the USB
drive. You can work with it like any other picture.