Nokia N9 16GB - Take a photo

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Take a photo
Select .

Select and hold . The focus is locked when a blue rectangle is displayed. To take

the photo, lift your finger. Do not move the phone before the photo is saved and the

phone is ready for a new photo.

Zoom in or out
Use the volume keys.

Focus on a specific object or area
Tap the object or area on the screen.
Touch focus is always activated. However, it is not available in landscape or sports

scene modes.

When taking a photo, you can recompose it without losing the focus point.

Recompose a photo while taking it

1 To lock the focus, select and hold . The focus is locked when a blue rectangle

is displayed.

2 Recompose the photo.
3 To take the photo, lift your finger.

Tip: To mark a photo as a favourite right after taking it, select , tap the screen to

show the toolbar, and select . Later, you can find the photo on the tab in Gallery.

With the face tracking feature, you can take sharp photos of people's faces. It

optimises focus, white balance, and exposure, and draws rectangles around faces,

even when they are moving. It is not available in landscape, sports, night, and macro

scene modes.

Switch face tracking on or off
Tap the settings area, and switch

Face detection

on or off.

If you tap the screen to move the focus, face tracking is switched off. To switch it on

again, tap the middle of the screen. Face tracking is also switched on when you return

to the camera from another view.

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Camera and Gallery

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Photos and videos taken with your phone are saved in Gallery. To open Gallery, select

.