April 2014
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 31m
English
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Chapter 10
Photos and Movies
In This Chapter
Taking pictures and shooting videos
Viewing, sharing, and deleting photos
Watching and buying movies
Every Surface tablet includes two cameras: one on its front side and the other on its back. However, your Surface doesn’t make for a very satisfying camera. There’s no viewfinder, and screen reflections make it hard to aim at your subject. Forget about taking flash photos or zooming in. And face it, everybody looks pretty dorky when taking a picture with a tablet. Your ever-present smartphone probably takes better-quality photos.
No, your Surface shines when displaying photos and videos, and this chapter walks you through doing both. (I describe how to use your Surface’s built-in cameras for holding video chats with friends in Skype in Chapter 9.)
Note: Need to import photos from your digital camera or cell phone? I explain how in Chapter 6.
Snapping Photos or Videos
Your Surface displays photos much better than it can capture them. Most Surface models include a miserly 1.2-megapixel cameras. Only the Surface 2 ups the game slightly to a 5-megapixel rear camera. By comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone offers a whopping 13-megapixel ...
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