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Camera

Almost every tablet and laptop these days has a camera—sometimes two

(front and back). Even some desktop PCs have webcams built in. Nobody is
going to take professional portraits with these cameras, but they’re fine for
video chats and Facebook snaps. Camera (Figure 8-9) is the app you use for
taking pictures and videos. (If you don’t see the Camera app, it’s because

your gadget doesn’t have a camera.)

Note

The first time you open this app, Microsoft’s privacy team has your back. A message asks if it’s
OK for Camera to know your location (so it can place-stamp the pictures) and if it’s allowed to
use your camera and microphone. It’s just making sure that the camera isn’t opening on behalf of
some nasty piece of spyware.

To take a picture, tap the button, or press the space bar or Enter.

A few cryptic icons haunt the edges of the window (their assortment and
their positions vary according to your machine’s camera features):

Settings ( ). The exact list of settings varies by PC. But a typical
settings setup lets you specify what happens when you hold down

the camera button (shoot video or capture rapid-fire burst-mode
shots), the proportions of the photos you take (like 4 × 3, 3 × 2, or
16 × 9), what kind of composition grid lines you want

superimposed on the preview, the quality and resolution of video
and photos you want to capture, whether you want image
stabilization turned on, and so on.

“Capture living images” means that, when you take a picture,
you’ll actually get a weird hybrid entity: a still photo with a one-
second video attached (with sound). When you share it with

another Windows 10 fan, they’ll see just what you see: a still photo
that can “play back.” If you share it with anyone else, you’re asked
whether you want to send it as a still photo or a one-second video.