Taking Photos with the Camera App

Here’s how you take a photo with your iPhone:

  1. Tap the Camera app.

  2. Compose your image. The iPhone screen serves as a big, bright viewfinder. The world looks great on it.

  3. Tap the button, as shown in Figure 1-5. If you don’t have your iPhone in silent mode, you’ll hear a lovely shutter sound, just as if you were taking the photo with a 1960s-era SLR.

  4. As the image is captured, you will see a shutter close over the image, and your photo will zip into the Camera Roll.

  5. Now you’re ready to take another.

After the image is captured, it is displayed in a thumbnail at the bottom of the screen.

Figure 1-5. After the image ...

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