Nokia N9 User Manual page 66

66 Camera and Gallery
Tip: To access the camera quickly, hold your phone upright, and drag your finger from
below the bottom of the touch screen onto the screen. Hold your finger in place, until
the quick launch bar is displayed.
Take a photo
Select .
Select and hold
the photo, lift your finger. Do not move the phone before the photo is saved and the
phone is ready for a new photo.
Zoom in or out
Use the volume keys.
Focus on a specific object or area
Tap the object or area on the screen.
Touch focus is always activated. However, it is not available in landscape or sports
scene modes.
When taking a photo, you can recompose it without losing the focus point.
Recompose a photo while taking it
1 To lock the focus, select and hold
is displayed.
2 Recompose the photo.
3 To take the photo, lift your finger.
Tip: To mark a photo as a favourite right after taking it, select
show the toolbar, and select
With the face tracking feature, you can take sharp photos of people's faces. It
optimises focus, white balance, and exposure, and draws rectangles around faces,
even when they are moving. It is not available in landscape, sports, night, and macro
scene modes.
Switch face tracking on or off
Tap the settings area, and switch
If you tap the screen to move the focus, face tracking is switched off. To switch it on
again, tap the middle of the screen. Face tracking is also switched on when you return
to the camera from another view.
. The focus is locked when a blue rectangle is displayed. To take
. Later, you can find the photo on the
Face detection
. The focus is locked when a blue rectangle
on or off.
, tap the screen to
tab in Gallery.