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| Circled at bottom left is icon to email your photo or video or do other things as well. |
Yes, It Is a Camera, Too.
Whether you have a hand-me-down first generation iPhone or an iPhone 4, there is a camera. I use mine for what I think it's best for—to keep in touch with family and friends that I can’t see often. I can snap a photo of an amazing snowscape or my son making a goal at soccer and—from within the photo app—I can email it to my sister, mother-in-law, or friend. When Lyle is traveling for business, he can send me a picture of some sight where he’s staying and I can send him visual updates of the kids’ day or a type of ice cream I think he might like at the grocery store.
To take a photo using the iPhone 4:
Touch the "camera" icon, aim and touch the "button" that has the little camera silhouette on it. Now you have a picture!
To email a photo immediately using an iPhone 4:
Touch the little square at the bottom left that shows the last photo you took, touch the symbol at the lower left (touch your screen once if you don't see that icon and it will appear), choose “email photo”, start writing, press send as you would any email, and select the size of your photo--Lyle likes me to send the "large" but my cousin needs the small or it will not load onto her flip phone. Now, the photo is on its way. If you want to do your emailing later, you can get back to your photo by finding the "camera" icon and looking for "camera roll" or the "photos" icon on your 'desktop' and following the same steps as before.
To send more than one photo at a time using an iPhone 4:
View your camera roll via the "camera" icon (or touch the "photos" icon) and touch the--let's call it the "I-want-to-do-something-with-my-photo icon--now in the top right corner, select up to 5 photos for emailing, touch “share”, and then choose "email" to send them.
To take a photo using the iPhone 4:
Touch the "camera" icon, aim and touch the "button" that has the little camera silhouette on it. Now you have a picture!
To email a photo immediately using an iPhone 4:
Touch the little square at the bottom left that shows the last photo you took, touch the symbol at the lower left (touch your screen once if you don't see that icon and it will appear), choose “email photo”, start writing, press send as you would any email, and select the size of your photo--Lyle likes me to send the "large" but my cousin needs the small or it will not load onto her flip phone. Now, the photo is on its way. If you want to do your emailing later, you can get back to your photo by finding the "camera" icon and looking for "camera roll" or the "photos" icon on your 'desktop' and following the same steps as before.
To send more than one photo at a time using an iPhone 4:
View your camera roll via the "camera" icon (or touch the "photos" icon) and touch the--let's call it the "I-want-to-do-something-with-my-photo icon--now in the top right corner, select up to 5 photos for emailing, touch “share”, and then choose "email" to send them.
Each generation of phone has a better camera with more features than the last. The iPhone 4 allows you to take a picture from either side of the phone, has a flash, and even has a zoom. However, I still think the best pictures from my 4 are taken in bright light when my hand is steady. From what I have read, the iPhone 4S camera promises to be great—it was created by Sony (which makes our most used non-phone digital camera), will have better resolution (can make a true 8x10 print from an iPhone photo), and will take less blurry pictures even in lower light or with not-perfectly-steady hands.
What about Videos?
The later iPhone models have a great video camera (I think the 3g was the first one to have it). The iPhone video camera may not yet compare to an actual stand-alone (and comparatively clunky) video camera, but it is much quicker to grab and use.
To take a video using an iPhone 4:
When you are inside your photo app and aiming at something to take a photo, look at the lower right and see the option to slide the button to the right toward the little “video” icon. Do that and you’ll be in video mode.
Keep track of storage space and battery usage:
If you are near a place to recharge and you have plenty of room left for file storage, you can go crazy and video record anything for as long as you want. You can tell how much space you have for video when your iPhone is plugged into iTunes (look at the colorful "capacity" bar at the bottom of the screen when you view your device). You can record a good amount of video without needing to recharge, but if you are going to need the phone or email before you get home, I would try not to let it go below one half of the battery charge.
To email a video using an iPhone 4:
You can even email your videos just like the photos if they aren’t too big—when you try to email one, the phone will tell you if it is too big and offer the option to edit it down (roughly lop off a section). Just follow the same instructions as above. Everything is about the same as for a photo, except the phone won't allow you to email more than one video at a time.
To take a video using an iPhone 4:
When you are inside your photo app and aiming at something to take a photo, look at the lower right and see the option to slide the button to the right toward the little “video” icon. Do that and you’ll be in video mode.
Keep track of storage space and battery usage:
If you are near a place to recharge and you have plenty of room left for file storage, you can go crazy and video record anything for as long as you want. You can tell how much space you have for video when your iPhone is plugged into iTunes (look at the colorful "capacity" bar at the bottom of the screen when you view your device). You can record a good amount of video without needing to recharge, but if you are going to need the phone or email before you get home, I would try not to let it go below one half of the battery charge.
To email a video using an iPhone 4:
You can even email your videos just like the photos if they aren’t too big—when you try to email one, the phone will tell you if it is too big and offer the option to edit it down (roughly lop off a section). Just follow the same instructions as above. Everything is about the same as for a photo, except the phone won't allow you to email more than one video at a time.
Are There Other Photo and Video Apps?
There are several thousand photo and video apps available for iPhone and for the later iPod Touch with camera. These apps can do everything from adding sepia tone or a lacy border to your picture to stitching together photos into a panorama or a triptych to improving the quality of your image. There are also quite a few games and entertainment apps that use the camera to do fun things like distort faces or put a face on a generic body and try to hit a target to get them into the dunking tank!
If you have a favorite photo or video app, please share. There are so many that I fear we will miss a few great ones, but we often use Pro HDR, Diptic, Panoramic 360, and iMovie.
If you have a favorite photo or video app, please share. There are so many that I fear we will miss a few great ones, but we often use Pro HDR, Diptic, Panoramic 360, and iMovie.
And be sure to check out our app, SoDunked! at iTunes while you’re there!
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