Nokia 8.1 user guide
Camera basics
Why carry a separate camera if your phone has all you need for capturing memories? With your phone’s camera, you can easily take photos or record videos.
Take a photo
Shoot sharp and vibrant photos – capture the best moments in your photo album.
- Tap
Camera . - Take aim and focus.
- Tap panorama_fish_eye.
Take a selfie
Need that perfect selfie? Use the phone's front camera to take one.
- Tap
Camera . - Tap
front_camera_android to switch to the front camera. - Take aim and focus.
- Tap panorama_fish_eye.
Take a bothie
In addition to perfect selfie, you can take a split-screen photo with your phone’s camera. Use both front and rear cameras simultaneously.
- Tap
Camera >front_camera_android and tapselfie_photo_android . - Tap
bothie_photo_android Dual for a split-screen photo. Or, to take a picture-in-picture photo, tappicture_in_picture_android . - Take aim and focus.
- Tap panorama_fish_eye.
- To go back to the full screen mode, tap
selfie_photo_android Single .
Tip: When you take a picture-in-picture photo or record a picture-in-picture video, and want to move the smaller picture, tap and hold it and drag it to the place where you want.
Take panoramas
Tap
Make your photos come to life
Do you want to see your photos become short videos?
- Tap
Camera >Motion off motion_off >Motion on motion_on . - Take aim and focus.
- Tap panorama_fish_eye.
- Select the photo you just took, you can see it in the bottom right corner.
- Tap
pause_motion to see your photo come to life.