Up Close and Personal with the iPhone 3GS #3 - iPhone 3GS Camera Features

Butterscotch Tutorial Special iPhone 3 GS New Features Overview Part three of five: New camera features Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to part three in a five part series on the iPhone 3GS. Today we're going to talk about the camera built into this. Now it looks very similar from the outside to the camera on the old version of the iPhone 3G, but this one is actually 3.2 megapixels and it actually some other functions built in that are a little bit more impressive than just straight up higher resolution. Going to press the camera icon here and we'll get started taking a look at this. Now again the interface looks fairly similar, you'll notice one tweak down here, which we'll get to in a second. But the fun starts when you start moving this. Now we actually have an autofocus camera built into this now. So we've got the ability to change your focus point and not just change your focus point by moving the camera, like we have before us, we've got a couple of things here. It actually identifies various things. Now we've got two of my favorite Home Star Runner characters here and if we want to focus on this and take a picture, we can just trust it to do what it does best or if we actually want to select something, so we can actually press on the thing that we want. So right now it's selected the cheater upfront, we can press on that and it'll focus on that or we can actually choose to focus on Home Star and it'll refocus on that and then we can take the picture and Home Star will be in focus as opposed to the cheater upfront. And again you can focus on anything that's on here and it will focus on that point, so we can focus midway in between if we choose to. Now we notice that it also has at the bottom a switch here that goes between camera and video. So we can switch this like so and now instead of taking a photograph we're in video mode. So I'm going to flip it into this right here and we are now shooting a video of our friend the cheat walking around; da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Anyone that's seen him knows he doesn't sound like that, but I'm not going to try to attempt his voice there. So now we've finished recording that we'll notice, we'll have the camera role placed in the same place over here and actually flip it back into that. So we have this role here, so we can actually watch the video we did, shameful though it may be. And you notice at the beginning we were setting up and I got my finger in front of the lens which is not so good. So we want to get rid of that potentially. So what you can do is you can load this up on to your computer and get rid of it that way, but you can also go this time line up here where you can see what's going on and instead of doing this over on the computer, you can actually just a bit of trimming here, so we'll get past the point where my fingers has got in the way, at the beginning and at the end. You notice that it zooms in a little bit if we press and hold, so now we've got something that's more like the video with actual one single press, trim, it'll trim it right here on the phone itself and now when we play it's just the Cheat walking around with my hand helping him as opposed to all of the set up as well. Here you go. And that is the camera on the new iPhone 3GS. butterscotch; tasty tech, delicious downloads Butterscotch.com a division of Twcows Corp. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/