Settings
In the Camera application settings, you can adjust the image quality setting and change
the default image name.
Example: If you
set ‘Beach’ as the default
image name, Camera will
name all the pictures you
take ‘Beach’, ‘Beach(01)’,
‘Beach(02)’, and so on,
until you change the
setting again.
1 Select
Options
→
Settings
.
2 Scroll to the setting you want to change:
•
Image quality
-
High
,
Normal
, and
Basic
. The better the image quality, the more
memory the image consumes. See also
‘Images and memory consumption’
, p.
56
.
•
Default image name
- By default, Camera names photos in the format ‘
Image
.jpg’.
Default image name
allows you to set a name for the pictures taken. See the example
in the side of the page.
•
Memory in use
- Select whether you want to store your images in the phone memory
or the memory card, if you use one.
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Camera mode affects image size and orientation
Tip! Try out the
different Camera modes to
see how they affect the
picture taken.
With the different Camera modes, you can affect the size and orientation of the picture
to be taken. See Fig.
2
, p.
55
. When you are taking a picture, press
or
to change
between the different modes. Choose:
•
Standard
when you want to take normal landscape pictures,
•
Portrait
when you want to take a smaller icon-sized, vertical picture, which can be
added to a contact card, or
•
Night
when the lighting is dim and the Camera needs a longer exposure time for the
picture to be of good quality. Note that, in dim conditions, any movement while
taking a picture may cause it to get blurred. The image size and orientation is the
same for
Standard
and
Night
.
Glossary:
Resolution - A measure for
the sharpness and clarity
of an image. Resolution
refers to the number of
dots (pixels) in an image or
a display. The more pixels
there are, the more
detailed the picture is.
Resolution is usually
measured in pixels, for
example, 640x480=300
kilopixels (kpix)=0.3
megapixels (Mpix).
Fig. 2 Standard, Portrait, and Night modes
• When you are taking a picture in Standard or Night mode, the viewfinder resolution
is 160x120 pixels and 80x96 for Portrait mode.
• The images taken in Standard or Night mode are saved in 640x480 pixel (VGA) format
and those taken in Portrait mode are saved in 80x96 pixel format.
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• When you are viewing images, they are scaled to fit the display, which has 176x208
pixels. This means that Standard and Night mode pictures will appear more detailed
when viewed on a higher resolution screen, for example, a computer or when zoomed
in Images.
Images and memory consumption
Your phone has approximately 3 MB (megabytes) of free memory for images, contact
information, calendar, messages, and so on. See
‘Shared memory’
, p.
16
. Portrait images
(always taken in High quality) are so small that they take up very little memory. Images
taken using the High quality setting and those taken in Night mode take up the most
memory.
If 1 MB of memory is used for images only, it would fit approximately 22 Normal quality
images taken in Standard mode. In the table below, you can see approximately how many
images would fit in 1 MB of memory.
Tip! By using a memory card with your phone you can increase the number of
images you can store.
Image quality
Image type
Basic
Normal
High
Standard
55
22
15
Night
50
25
18
Portrait
-
-
>300
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