Camera

The Camera is an entity and item that is capable of capturing and storing images.

Obtaining
The camera cannot be obtained by crafting or through the creative inventory; it can only be obtained by editing the inventory with third party applications.

Usage
The camera currently does not function entirely correctly, and still experiences some buggy behavior. It is possible to use it by either placing it down and tapping the button (currently this does not display any text, but it can be seen above the hotbar), or by tapping in the air near the camera. When placed down and activated, it will start to emit flash and smoke particles, then it will 'explode' and disappear (although it may cause a crash on some devices), then it will drop itself back (however, this is not currently the case due to a bug). Images can be located at:
 * Android:


 * iOS:

Trivia

 * The camera's texture underneath is rotated incorrectly.
 * Cameras take damage like other mobs, because they are entities. They have no 'hurt' animation (they do not flash red). They are affected by knockback.
 * You can kill a camera by placing it at a lethal height. Since it is an entity, it will fall and display a death animation without it flashing red.
 * Upon exiting a world with cameras and rejoining, all cameras will turn into lightning bolt which acts like normal lightning.
 * In multiplayer, cameras placed will make a lightning sound and become invisible to any players that are not the host.
 * Also in Multiplayer if the host drops the camera and another playerayer takes and then later places it, the player that isn't the host of the world that he made places it, the game will crash.
 * It is possible to spawn cameras by using an inventory editor to acquire a Spawn Egg with a damage value of 62.

History
{{History||0.2.0|Original camera tripod texture removed, which the texture was changed to to {{History||0.5.0|The camera is now invisible and makes the standard player damage sound.}} {{History||0.7.0|Added the "F1" feature (Hide GUI) making the camera obsolete.}} {{History||0.8.0|Camera looks like an egg in player's inventory.}} {{History||0.9.0|snap=build 1|The camera entity was removed. Tommaso also stated: "It doesn't mean that it's dead forever, in fact I have a lot of ideas for it! I think it will be back when have shaders, sharing and redstone." }} {{History||0.14.0|snap=build 1|Re-added camera. It is currently unobtainable in-game.|Texture Chnaged from to .}} {{History||0.14.2|The camera item ID changed to 498, but it cannot be used at the moment. However, according to the language files of MCPE, the empty label that shows up whenever hovering a finger to a camera would now say "Take Picture".}} {{History|foot}}

Future
At the Minecraft Pocket Edition panel at MineCon 2012, as well as one of Jbernhardsson's livestreams, it was stated that future plans include trying to have a proper use for cameras, perhaps an easier way to take screenshots and share them with others. In the BlockTalk Q&A, the camera was briefly mentioned as part of a broader "sharing" theme planned for MCPE in the future.