Tutorials

The tutorials in this section show you how to use the Camera API.

The Camera API allows your application to use the device camera to capture still images and video clips, and store them in the internal memory or on removable media. You can implement applications that make use of the camera to capture images, record videos, or use the display as a viewfinder. To capture images or to record videos, you need a combination of Symbian APIs and classes, and device-specific components.

Note: The functionality that can be obtained through the Camera API is hardware dependent. The API includes functions you can call to check if functionality is available before using it.

• Capturing Still Images
  
• Capturing a Video Clip
  
• Using Time-Nudge-Capture Drive Mode
  This topic describes how to capture an image using Time-Nudge-Capture drive mode in the Ecam API.
• Background Processing for Ecam
  This topic describes how to capture an image using standalone background processing in Ecam.
• Converting Manual Aperture to Automatic Aperture
  This topic explains how to prepare the camera for the automatic aperture setting. By default, the automatic aperture setting is used if no manual aperture value has been given.
• Using the Encoded H264 Video Frames to Capture Video
  This topic describes how to use the encoded H264 video frames in the Ecam video capture function to capture the video data.