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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a look at some of the digital photography features of Windows Phone 7 let's take a look okay before getting started it's important to mention once again that what you're about to see is not final windows phone 7 hardware or software so let's take a look at these photography features of Windows Phone 7 starting off when the device is turned off if you want to take a picture really quickly and you don't want to turn on the device unlock the screen and find the camera program you can actually tap and hold the dedicated hardware button up here for the camera which is required by Microsoft on all windows phone 7 devices if I hold it for 30 seconds like I'm doing now it will actually launch the camera application without you having to actually turn on the device so let's take a picture here another cool feature of the camera we talked about this in a previous video is right after you take a picture the picture slides to the left and you can swipe to the right to see it instantly or you can go to the right to go back to the viewfinder now you can also continue to swipe to the left to see all the pictures that you've taken or you can keep going to the right to the viewfinder and you're back taking another picture now you may be wondering what happens if the phone is in my pocket and mmm accidentally the camera button is pressed down maybe you sit on the phone weird well the this feature of Windows Phone 7 where the camera can launch without unlocking the device is actually proximity sensor aware so if you cover up the proximity sensor and try to hold down the camera button here nothing is going to happen because it realizes that it's in your pocket very smart feature of Windows Phone 7 so let's go back in okay and let's go into the picture sub and by the way this picture tile that you just saw is one of those live picture tiles meaning that it will change so it's supposed to change every five times you go into the pictures hub although you can have it change manually if you change the background of the pictures hub so here we are on the pictures hub and we have several different panels here we can tap and hold on the background to change the background or have the phone actually change it for you and so it just changed to kind of an ugly picture I took earlier I don't like that too much so I'm going to change it for me one more time yeah that's not any better let's try change background manually and I'm going to choose a picture that actually comes on the device that looks a lot better than anything I've taken okay that works so now the background changes and if we go to the home screen you'll see that the tile has actually changed to represent the background of the pictures hub pretty cool okay so let's get into the pictures hub so we swipe to the right we see recent pictures that I've taken with the camera to the right of that is what's new so it's actually pulling in from facebook and I can actually view photos on my device here from facebook as if they were native so here's a picture that someone took I can go into landscape and this picture actually feels like it's on my device when it's being pulled from Facebook swipe to the right we're back to where we started we can go to albums by date and here is the date view we can swipe to the right to go to favorites or back to all and here are all the different photo albums and here's another cool thing it's pulling from my facebook albums so here are all my facebook albums cruise photos random pictures that I've taken over the years almost as if they are native pictures on my device super cool I'm just going to go to the camera roll because they'll load the quickest so I'm going to tap on one of these so I can show you a cool feature of Windows Phone 7 when you're looking at photos of course you can swipe to the right or swipe to the left it's actually thinking I'm looking this way but you can actually zoom out to get a filmstrip view so this gives you kind of an overview of all the pictures that you have without having to see one picture at a time just a cool way to look at your pictures and then when you see a picture you like you can zoom in and pinch to zoom as you would expect and of course when you tap and hold on a picture you can do a bunch of things with it so let's try that you can add it as a favorite and it will add it'll go into the favorites gallery you can also upload it to SkyDrive you can delete it or you can share it via a variety of social networking services or you can send it via email or as an M s there's also a feature where you can automatically upload pictures to facebook or SkyDrive another great way to keep your pictures synchronized so i just added a picture as a favorite now i have two pictures set as my favorite i can look at them like so or of course i can zoom out to get that filmstrip view and view them like that so the way windows phone 7 treats photos is pretty interesting the way that you can take a picture without having to unlock the device the way that you can go into the pictures of and view have been a very organized way all the pictures that you've taken + pictures that you've taken on facebook + pictures that other people have taken on facebook it's a really immersive digital photography experience couple that with really fast performance and greats multi-touch pinch-to-zoom panning you have a really good digital photography experience on windows phone 7 if you like this video please thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more smart phone videos thanks for watching and that's it for now