Taking Your Best Shot
As with many apps on the iPhone, you find the Camera app icon on the Home screen. Unless you moved things around, the Camera app is positioned on the upper row of icons, all the way to the right and adjacent to its next of kin, the Photos icon. You tap both icons throughout this chapter.
Might as well snap an image now:
1. On the Home screen, tap the Camera app icon. Or from the Lock screen, double-tap Home and then flick the Camera icon on the bottom-right corner of the screen in an upward motion.
These actions turn the iPhone into the rough equivalent of a Kodak Instamatic, minus the film, of course.
2. Keep your eyes fixed on the iPhone display.
The first thing you notice on the screen is something resembling a closed camera shutter. But that shutter opens in about a second on the iPhone 4 and in a snap (couldn’t resist) on the 4S and 5, revealing a window into what the camera lens sees.
3. Aim the camera at whatever you want to shoot, using the iPhone’s display as your viewfinder.
You get a brilliant 3 1⁄2-inch display on older models, or a widescreen 4-inch display on the iPhone 5.
We marvel at the display throughout this book; the Camera app gives us another reason to do so.
Make sure the switch at the bottom-right corner of the screen is set to camera mode rather than video mode. (The switch appears in the upper-right corner of the screen if ...
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