Add on hardware

Tuning your built in camera

 

There are three options on the market right now that till allow you to ‘tune’ your iPhone camera via add on lenses. This is the review of one that is a snug protective case from Griffin that has a lens allowing the iPhone to take close up picture clearly.

 

Your first reaction may be that you don’t ‘need’ to take close up pictures. But, you may want to take a closer look at how your using your camera now. 

 

For group shots or pictures of landscape, all is good. Try to take a picture of a piece of paper or a scratch on your car and you get a slightly out-of-focus usable-ish picture.

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Built in features

Picture taking… Tall or Wide pictures

The built in camera – 

The screen button works like the keyboard in that it takes it’s picture when you release the button – not when you press it. You can launch the camera app, hold the software button down with your finger, hold your arm out to get just the right picture and release your finger. Great when you want to take a picture with yourself in it… no hunting around for the button.

Another feature is that the iPhone can take portrait (tall) and landscape (wide) pictures. Hold the phone tall and it takes narrow/tall pictures.

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