Sisilim at Philcoa photo album

Visit our accessible Facebook album:
Sunset at Philcoa

Here is one image from the album:

View photo just taken by the camera.

Rather than pressing Options/View photos after shooting with the phone camera, a more efficient way to view immediately the photo just taken would be to click on camera mode, Options/Settings/Photo Preview Time to "End Manually", the other settings being "no preview", 3, 5, 10 seconds.

If you want to take the next shot, Just press New. This is more efficient.
(Thanks to Mia Fae, the sweet girl in the photo below:

Set image resolution of camera

The C3 camera is good for obtaining casual photos. It has a two megapixels CCD sensor (better than a VGA camera) , but if you are in the right place at the right time, your camera images might be stunning to look at.

You can adjust the resolution of your camera. In camera mode, goto Options > Settings > Photo Quality. Here are possible choices:

2.0MP 1600x1200
1.2MP 1280x960
0.5MP 800x600
0.3MP 640x480
0.1MP 320x240


Be sure to have an 8 Gbytes microSD card. The high recolutions can easily fill up small capacity micro-sd cards!

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Is there a zoom feature in the Nokia C3-00? Yes!

I know I can zoom on a photo when I view it with the Nokia C3.

What I only discovered right now is that you can also zoom (up to 4x digitally) your camera view while taking a picture
simply by pushing the top and bottom portions of the main navigation ring of the phone!

Try it. Am surprised about discovering this feature today. I dont think this info is in the skimpy leaflet which passes itself off as a manual.

How to post a photo as your Facebook status.

Jan. 21: Flash! There is a faster way to save photos in Gallery/Images where the C3 Facebook application looks for photos to upload: Please click on Fastest way...


I have rewritten the procedure.

You can only upload photos to Facebook from the Gallery/Images folder of the Applications menu of the C3. So here are the steps:

1. open the gallery from the Menu/Apps.
2. click on a photo album (subdirectory in gallery) which is different from gallery/Images! this is usually "NO NAME". The others are Images (where the FB app expects your photos to be in), Video clips,
Music Files, Themes, Graphics,Tones,Recordings,Received files.
3. select the photo
4. click on option
5. move to gallery/Images

Now that you have a photo in gallery/Images,
1. open your Facebook home page in the C3
2. You will be normally presented with the FB new status editor. Cancel to go to the FB menu page.
Select upload photo by selecting the camera icon from the choices given on the top: (messages, events,recent list,friend requests, camera).This will give you a popup menu asking to select Gallery or Camera.
3. Choose Gallery.
4. Select the photo.
5. Click on options, choose add Caption.
6. Click on share and you should be done.
Someday, one should be able to upload entire albums instead of a single photo!
We should expect this feature from Nokia.

Next time we will post pics. if only the C3 has a savescreen feature!