Introduction to Windows 8 style application development 29 capture pictures and videos

First, the camera

About cameras

1. The camera dialog provides a touchscreen-optimized full-screen experience where you can capture photos and videos from embedded or attached cameras.

2. The Full Screen dialog box handles the work of displaying the camera UI.

3. This dialog box allows you to capture photos or videos using a method call to Windows.Media.Capture.CameraCaptureUI.captureFileAsyncAPI.

4. As part of the capture experience, the user can trim the captured photos, clip the captured video, and then return them to the calling application.

5. Users can also adjust some camera settings, such as brightness, contrast, and exposure, before capturing photos or videos. The Camera dialog box is used for real-time photo and video capture.

Camera settings

1. Can adjust camera settings with CAMERA option

2. Including photo resolution, video anti jitter, brightness, contrast options