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App of the Week: The iPhone's camera

8 June 2012

So I don’t know that this qualifies as an app, but it certainly is a feature of my iPhone that I use frequently!

Have you noticed that there are a lot more photos on my blog in the last couple of months? That’s because the camera in my iPhone makes it so easy to take pictures and get them on my blog. In the past, I’d have to find my camera, take the picture, then plug my camera into my computer, import the photo into iPhoto and go from there.

Now, I just take a picture with my phone (which is pretty much always with me) and it automatically is added to my computer, in the Photostream in iPhoto, thanks to iCloud. It’s kinda like magic.

I use my camera on a daily basis. Besides taking pictures for my blog, I use it for lots of other purposes. For example, the other day I left hand-written homework for a client, so I just shot a photo of the piece of paper so I wouldn’t have to make a copy for myself. When I sprained my ankle last month, my whole foot gradually turned purple. I documented that with my phone’s camera and when I saw the doctor for a follow-up, two weeks after the fall when my foot was looking better, I was able to show her the extent of the injury.

The functionality of the camera allows me to use all sorts of apps, like bar code readers to find better deals on items I’m looking at in the store, or QR code readers to take me to websites without having to type the URL. If I wanted to, I could take photos of receipts and send them to a service like Shoeboxed who will put them into a spreadsheet for me.

Not only is the camera handy and easy to use, it’s actually a great little camera. With 8 megapixels, it takes great pictures and it even has a flash. I can edit photos in the camera (cropping, red-eye removal). And I can easily email, text or tweet the photo right from the camera app. And, of course, it takes video as well as still photos.

The camera in my iPhone 4S is yet another in a long list of reasons I absolutely love my iPhone.

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