The camera is one of the features that is often the main consideration of most people when buying a smartphone. The smartphone camera is even considered by some people especially the women as being more important than the specification of the smartphone itself.
Most people use a smartphone camera to do selfie, photograph an object that is considered good to show off, capture a certain moment with the people closest and scan the document.
Actually there are so many smartphone camera functions that you can try. This is another smartphone camera function that is often ignored by the user.
1. Checking Heartbeat
One of the most useful functions of a smartphone camera that you can try is to check your heart rate. Of course to do this you need additional applications such as Instant Heart Rate that lets you check your heart rate by simply sticking your index finger to your smartphone's camera.
2. Viewing Infrared Ray
Another smartphone camera's function is to see infrared light from a device that emits it.
Point your smartphone camera to a device that emits infrared light like a TV remote and you will see a purple beam which is an infrared beam (the sensor on the smartphone interprets infrared to purple).
3. Shooting With Volume Button
If you generally shoot using the buttons on the screen then from now on you should use your volume button to take pictures because it is more practical and also to avoid movements that can make your smartphone shake when shooting using the button on the screen (avoid blur on the photo).
4. Barcode Scan, QR code and Negative Film
You can also use your smartphone camera to scan barcodes or QR code. This is of course useful when you want to add friends in various social media applications and find out certain information from a product.
In addition to a barcode scan or QR code you can also use your smartphone camera to scan a negative movie for digital files. Enough of the negative film you want to scan with bright light then point your smartphone camera to the negative film, portrait and use negative effects on your smartphone to neutralize the negative effects on the film.
5. Translating Text
For those of you who are blind about English, you can use your smartphone's camera to translate the various texts contained in various real-world objects and also the pictures you see by simply pointing your camera camera to the text you want to translate. Of course you have to install Google Translate application first.