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Camera basics
Whether traveling for business or fun, enjoy taking photos and videos of your trip and
encounters with your phone’s camera.
Be sure to plug in your microSD card before you use your phone’s camera. Photos and videosPhotos and videos
captured with the camera will be stored onto your microSD card. To find out how to insertTo find out how to insert
your microSD card to your phone, see “Inserting the storage card“ in the Basics chapter.
To open the camera in photo mode and take photos, tap Camera on the main
Home screen.
To open the camera directly in video mode so you can immediately start
capturing videos, tap from the Home screen, and then tap Camcorder.
Viewfinder screen
The camera displays in landscape view only. You’ll find the following controls on the
Viewfinder screen:
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1 Menu tab See “Camera
settings.”
2 Gallery button See the Gallery
chapter.
3 Auto-focus
indicator
See “Auto
focusing.”
4
Zoom button See “Zooming.”
5
Flash button Available in
photo mode
only.
Using the optical trackball as the shutter release
The optical trackball works as the shutter release for the camera. Press the optical
trackball to take a photo or begin capturing video. Press it again to stop capturing
video.
Review screen
After capturing a photo or video, the Review screen will display the photo or the
starting image of the video that you have just captured. You can tap the onscreen
buttons to delete the photo or video, view it in the Gallery application, or share it.