iPhone: The Missing Manual

Chapter 5. Photos and Camera

This is a short chapter on a short subject: the iPhone's ability to display photos copied over from your computer, and to take new pictures with its built-in camera.

You've probably never seen digital pictures look this good on a pocket gadget. The iPhone screen is bright, the color are vivid, and the super-high pixel density makes every shot of your life look cracklin' sharp.

The built-in 2-megapixel camera takes 1600-by-1200-pixel images. This camera is capable of taking photos that look every bit as good as what you'd get from a dedicated camera. Not all of its work looks that good, though: with moving subjects or in low light, it's pretty obvious that you used a cameraphone.

Even so, some camera is better than no camera when life's little photo ops crop up.

Opening Photos

In Chapter 12, you can read about how you choose which photos you want copied to your iPhone.

After the sync is done, you can drill down to a certain set of photos like so:

• ❶ On the Home screen, tap Photos.

  The Photo Albums screen appears. First in the list is Camera Roll, which means, "Pictures you've taken with the iPhone."

  

  Next is Photo Library, which means all of the photos you've selected to copy from your Mac or PC.

  After that is the list of albums you brought over from the computer. (An ...