8. ADJUST EXPOSURE TO SUIT THE SCENE

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THE CAMERA IN an iPhone is comprised of two very different parts. The hardware includes the lens, the lens-stabilizing features, the image sensor, the flash, and the under-the-hood image processor. The camera app is the software interface for accessing all of this whiz-bang technology for taking and processing the image.

The iPhone comes with its own basic camera app, but you also can purchase many other apps that offer additional controls and functionality not available in the native iOS camera app. In this section we’ll concern ourselves with the camera app that comes with your iPhone, particularly how you ...

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