HTC Wildfire manual Camera basics, Viewfinder screen, Review screen

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Camera

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 videos captured with the camera will be stored onto your microSD card. To 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	See “Auto
	indicator	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.