Using The Camera Application - i-mate PDA2 User Manual

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10.1 Using the Camera application

The Camera application, explained in this section, lets you use your Pocket PC's built-in
camera to snap new photos or shoot video clips with accompanying audio. The Album ap-
plication, explained in the next section, provides many powerful features to view, organize,
and manipulate your image, video, and audio files.
Two of the ways you can use to switch to Camera mode are:
Tap Start > Programs > Camera.
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Or, press the lowermost button on the left side of your Pocket PC Phone.
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When you initially enter Camera mode, the Photo capture mode will be active. The name of
the active capture mode is displayed in the lower right area of the screen (example illustrated
on page after next). You can easily switch to other capture modes by pressing the Right
and Left buttons on your Pocket PC's navigation pad (see next page), or by tapping the
Left/Right triangular buttons in the lower right corner of the screen. The available capture
modes are listed below.
Capture mode
Photo
Video
MMS Video
Contact Photo
Picture Theme
Using the above capture modes, the Camera application is capable of capturing files in
the following formats:
Capture type
Still image
Video
MMS Video
Captures standard still images
Captures video clips, with or without accompanying audio
Captures video clips suitable for sending via MMS
Captures a still image and gives you the option to immediately
assign it as a Photo ID for a Contact entry
Captures still images and places them within "frames"
BMP
JPEG
Motion-JPEG AVI
(.avi)
MPEG-4 Simple profile
3GPP-H.263 baseline
MPEG-4 Simple profile
Function
Formats
(.mp4)
(.3gp)
(.mp4)