Lesson 13. Taking Photos
In this lesson, you learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the iPad 2’s front- and rear-facing cameras. You then learn how to use the cameras to take photos and capture movie clips.
Knowing When to Use the iPad’s Camera
Including cameras in the iPad 2 is a breakthrough, enabling all sorts of cool things to happen. However, these cameras are very low-resolution devices. A typical smartphone camera today has a resolution of 5Mpx—that’s 5 million pixels—or more. A 2Mpx resolution is the least you’d want to use for a photo that you were thinking of printing. But the cameras on the iPad 2 have a resolution of 0.3Mpx, for the front-facing camera, and 0.7Mpx for the rear-facing one.
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