This is an Android doll, and the New Nexus 7 can take pictures of it.
Let's take a closer look.
Here we have the two generations of the Nexus 7 side by side.
Both posses a screen facing 1.2-MP camera that's absolutely fine for Skype, video chats
and take onesies.
But one of the few criticisms to be labelled at the original Nexus 7 was that it lacked
a rear facing camera for taking decent pictures.
Well this has been addressed with the Nexus 7 2013 which sports just that.
This is a 5-MP camera with a 2.4 aperture, auto focus and 1080P video recording.
Technically speaking it's very much middle of the road stuff but when you factor in the
price it's yet more exceptional value.
The controls are relatively simple as you would expect.
Launch the camera application from the home screen and you're brought straight into the
camera functionality.
As you use the camera you'll notice this white icon appearing all the time to indicate that
it's auto focusing on an object, but you can control that to a certain degree by tapping
on the screen yourself.
You can also pinch to up to 4 times digital zoom and taking a picture is as simple as
pressing the big blue button.
As you might have noticed there is a slight delay when taking pictures so don't take this
thing out expecting to capture incredible moments in time.
It's more a convenience tool to add to your tablet.
Once nice feature is the ability to flick quickly from the camera to your photo gallery
by swiping right to left.
It's an efficient way to quickly check the picture you've taken and decide whether to
keep it before quickly flicking back to the camera using the same swipe gesture.
Obviously one of the main things available is the secondary camera which will switch
to the screen facing camera and me trying to record.
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If you long press on the screen you can bring up a range of quick options that you can select
by dragging you finger through the arch style menu.
There's a nice range of simple effects you can alter such as scene mode, picture size,
exposure level, white balance and a countdown timer; all the basics, quickly accessible,
which is more than most will need.
Thanks to the stock Android 4.4 kitkat operating system the camera also has a few cool tricks
up its sleeve.
There's a panoramic mode that's been around for a while and this very cool and relatively
new sphere mode.
All you need to do is line up the camera with the horizon and then track the lens around
the white dot reference points in a 360 degree fashion.
This creates a photo that patches together all the pictures it takes to create a sphere
of the world you're in.
Obviously it's not perfect, you can see here where the stitching has gone a little awry
but isn't it incredible how much photography has changed in the last five years?
It's not just about taking pictures either.
The gallery software on the Nexus includes all the usual options you would expect, like
being able to crop and rotate the picture, set a location to it and so on.
But more editing features have been added too.
In particular Google have added lots of Instagram style filters to the effects.
Obviously if you want to do more you can explore the Google play market.
But again, for most users this is ideal.
As for the video quality, well you will have to judge for yourself.
This is running the rear facing camera at 720p.
And just to show you something while I am recording, this is where all the magic happens
with my videos.
A very simple table, camera and light.
So that's a quick test with the Nexus 7 camera.
And that is your summary of the Nexus 7 2013 camera.
Simple, efficient and a fine addition to an already excellent tablet.
But how can we forget the star of the show, the Android Doll.
This one is getting a bit restless and is ready to fly the nest, so if you want to win
him, leave a comment on the video and I'll pick out one lucky winner.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon.