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Camera
Camera
Camera basics
Whether traveling for business or fun, enjoy taking photos and videos of your trip and
encounters with your phone's camera.
Be sure to plug in your microSD card before you use your phone's camera. Photos and videos
captured with the camera will be stored onto your microSD card.
If you have not yet inserted your microSD card to your phone, follow the steps in "Inserting the
storage card" in the Basics chapter to insert it.
To open the camera in photo mode and take photos, tap
screen, and then tap Camera.
To open the camera directly in video mode so you can immediately start
capturing videos, tap
Viewfinder screen
When you're in photo mode and you turn your phone left or right, the camera
onscreen controls automatically rotate to how you hold the phone. You'll find the
following onscreen controls on the Viewfinder screen:
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Auto focus indicator
2 Zoom bar
3 Gallery button
4 Effects button
5 Shutter release/Record button
6 Flash button
7 Mode button
from the Home screen, and then tap Camcorder.
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See "Auto focusing."
See "Zooming."
See the "Photos, videos, and music" chapter.
See "Adding effects."
Tap to take a photo or start capturing video.
See "Taking a photo" and "Recording video."
Tap to switch between photo and video modes.
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