Comments on: Firmware 3.0 Preview: Camera

By: Double tap the home button to launch camera! (V3.0) | iPhone Help !

Double tap the home button to launch camera! (V3.0) | iPhone Help ! — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:22:58 +0000

[...] came across this on Apple iPhone School. The iPhone 3.0 OS apparently has an option to let you launch the camera app when you double click [...]

By: DeftOne

DeftOne — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:34:34 +0000

Snapture has a lot of great features, but I’ve found it to be pretty buggy. It always seems to run out of memory and crash on me after taking a few photos. Unfortunately, it has become annoying enough that I’ve gone back to the stock camera app for the most part.

By: JuanKi

JuanKi — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:58 +0000

dude nice!
that was one heck of a “tip”, I’ll be using it from now on
thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:20:06 +0000

Get SNAPTURE it has many missing features… Zoom, Sepia/B&W, Multiple pics
and heaps more features

Need jailbroken iphone tho

cheers
Steve

By: william

william — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:56:54 +0000

still can not zoom???

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:20:39 +0000

Yes, I use this when I take pics too. Maybe an option to toggle would be nice.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:18:41 +0000

It asks your location to geotag the photo. After you say yes a few times it quits asking.

By: Sal

Sal — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:56:34 +0000

I think the Iphone camera does a great job, for it being a camera phone,i have had a few pda phones and they do not compare to this iphone camera. I have taken decent pictures from a camera phone at a concert.

Thanks Pete for the tip, i never realized that, but i tried it,awesome.

But what is with the Camera Would Like To Find Your Location? This is soo annoying everytime you want to take a picture.

Thanks again everyone!

By: Rip

Rip — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:35:58 +0000

Most people don’t realise that the camera takes a picture when your finger LEAVES the screen button, not touches it.

When you know this it makes taking pictures so much easier.

Try it and see.
Open the camera app, touch and hold the button.
No picture is taken.
Frame your shot.
Now release your finger and voila!. A snap.
And much less shake.

If the whole screen was used as a button there’d be many more complaints about taking shots you didn’t mean to. That’s why Apple designed it the way they did. They’ve just failed to communicate it properly.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:41:38 +0000

TIP: To easily take a self portrait, hold the shutter button down, turn the iPhone around, smile, then release the button to capture a picture. This is much easier that blindly searching for the button when it’s turned around. I still agree that the entire screen should be a button though.