Jul 032013
HD Camera (Kindle Tablet Edition)
- THE ORIGINAL Camera and Camcorder app for the Kindle Fire HD
- NEW! Simple Time Delay Camera
- Color Effects in the TimerCam
- Experimental Features in Labs section
- Online Camera Manual
- Simple way to take pictures with the kindle fire HD.
- Easy links to Photos and Personal Videos
- Contact Us link to email developer for support
- Help screens for common problems
List Price: $ 0.99
Price: $ 0.99
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Accessing camera on Kindle Fire HD without this app,
You don’t need this app to access the camera on your Kindle Fire HD. Camera can be accessed without the paid app for taking basic pictures using the front-facing camera:
- On the home screen, select “Photos” from top menu (slide that menu line right to left in portrait mode, Photos appears between Web and Docs).
- On the “Photos” screen, you will see a camera icon at top-right of your screen. Select that camera icon.
- On the camera screen, you will see a shutter icon across the long-edge of the screen (on the side where the front-facing camera is located). Click that shutter icon when you are ready to take a picture using the front-facing camera.
- To view pictures taken using the camera from home screen, select Photos from home screen and click on the folder named Camera.
Hope this helps.
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|Works fine but should be included,
Amazon, why are you so cheap that you make a customer who spends several hundred dollars on a tablet buy this app to be able to use their camera? It should be included. Bad, Amazon. Bad.
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|Adds Video to Kindle Fire HD,
One of the things missing from the Kindle Fire HD was video recording. This app allows the Fire HD to record video, and still photos as well. It records stills better than the other still cam apps for the Fire HD. Video quality is OK for web video clips, but it’s a little grainy in low light (the camera’s limitation, not the app’s.) Still, it’s good enough for the intended purpose. A must-have for two bucks.
After downloading the app, it took a day for it to be activated even though it says instant use, and even then, I wasn’t sure how to get it into the Kindle (I’ve added other apps successfully without issue, and this one uses a different, more complicated, not well documented procedure.) Once installed, it worked as advertised.
The user interface is a little cumbersome at first, until you notice that the initial menu can be turned off, allowing instant access to the camera. Manual controls are available for white balance and resolution modes. This app was designed to work up to 1080 HD on other devices, but the Kindle itself only works up to 720 HD. If you set it at 1080, it will lock up the app, requiring a roundabout procedure to reset the camera. At 480mode, the image is OK but the audio is too compressed. The default 720 mode works perfectly for video and audio.
Granted, this app should have been included with the Fire in the first place, as I was unaware that video could even be recorded until I found this app. Including this low cost app would undoubtedly add value to to Kindle Fire, and I am sure would open the market for sales of the device even more than it already is. Or at least have it available as an option. For two bucks, it’s well worth adding the video capability to the Fire.
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