Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 9
You Oughta Be in Pictures
In This Chapter
Shooting pictures
Importing your pictures
Viewing and admiring pictures
Creating a slide show
Working with pictures even more
Deleting your photos
Hamming it up in Photo Booth
We often sing the praises of the grown-up iPads' vibrant multitouch display. You'd be hard-pressed to
find a more appealing portable screen for watching movies or playing games — and, yes, for appreci-
ating photos. Though the screen on the latest iPad mini is smaller, it boasts the same sterling Retina
display of its larger siblings. And even the first generation iPad mini that Apple continues to sell is a
first rate photo viewer, even with a somewhat lower resolution display. Images are crisp and vivid, at
least those that you shot properly. (C'mon, we know Ansel Adams is a distant cousin.)
What's more, you can shoot some of those pictures directly with your prized tablet. The reasons, of
course, are the front and rear cameras built into the device. If you read Chapter
8
, you already know
you can put those cameras to work capturing video. In this chapter, you get the big picture on shoot-
ing still images.
Okay, we need to get a couple of things out of the way: The iPad is never going to substitute for a
point-and-shoot digital camera, much less a pricey digital SLR. As critics, we can quibble about the
grainy images you get shooting in low light, or the fact that no flash is included. And shooting can be
awkward. But we're here, friends, to focus on the positive. And having cameras on your iPad may
prove to be a godsend when no better option is available. Apple has jazzed up the cameras through
the most recent iterations of the iPad. In the last chapter, we tell you about the capability to capture
full high-definition video up to what techies refer to as the 1080p standard.
