Camera Settings

What is it?

The camera settings allow you to switch between the available cameras on your device (eg, front camera, back cameras) or connect to an external camera, such as Canon’s range of DSLR and Mirrorless cameras. In addition, you can adjust your camera settings (exposure, shutter speed, aperture etc) and adjust things like contrast and saturation.

In this Guide

• Selecting Cameras
• Frame Rates
• Contrast, Saturation and Vibrance
• Exposure
• White Balance
• Digital Zoom
• Touch Screen Actions

Selecting Cameras

Tap “Camera” to cycle through the various available device cameras (front, back, wide, telephoto etc) or select “Use External Camera” if you have a Canon DSLR or Mirrorless connected.

The name of the current selected camera and its maximum available frame rate when capturing video is displayed below the “Camera” button.

The virtual camera is useful if you want to be able to zoom seemlessly from the widest camera through to the most telephoto camera.

Frame Rates

The maximum available frame rate for video capture depends upon the device and the selected camera. Recent devices support video capture at up to 240 fps with some external cameras and the back cameras and 60 fps with the front camera. Older devices only support 30 fps with the front camera and 120 fps with the back camera.

Contrast, Saturation & Vibrance

The contrast, saturation and vibrance sliders can be used to adjust the appearance of the camera images. The saturation slider adjusts the strength of the colors in the image and ranges from 0, which has no color and gives grayscale images, through 2 which gives highly saturated images. The vibrance setting adjusts the saturation of an image while keeping pleasing skin tones. The default settings are contrast=1.0, saturation=1.0 and vibrance=0.0.

Exposure

Normally the camera uses auto exposure and this can be adjusted using the auto exposure compensation slider. For manual control of the exposure, tap the switch to the left of “Auto exposure compensation” and it will change to “Shutter speed” and the ISO slider will be displayed. Adjust exposure by moving the shutter speed and ISO sliders.

Note: It’s best to avoid slow shutter speeds (e.g. less than 1/15 sec) otherwise the live view refresh rate may be slow.

White Balance

Normally the camera selects the white balance automatically. For manual control tap the switch to the left of the “WB: auto” caption and adjust the white balance using the WB and Tint sliders.

Digital Zoom

The camera can be digitally zoomed in using the “Digital zoom” slider. Please note that this works by cropping the photos and will reduce the resolution and the amount of detail available. If the photos are zoomed in too far it may affect the quality and the photos may appear pixellated.

Tap the “Done” button or anywhere in top half of the screen to close the camera settings screen.

Touchscreen Actions

The exposure compensation and digital zoom settings can also be adjusted by defining touchscreen actions in the ready or menu screens. This makes it possible to give users control over basic camera settings without needing to give access to the full set of camera settings which may cause confusion or lead to less than optimal settings being selected.