Camera
Equip, target, and take a shot!.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 7 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 336
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 50
- Engram points
- 30
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Camera guides
How to craft Camera
Camera is crafted from 7 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 50, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Smithy
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
280MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×140.
How to get Camera
Camera is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 44 crates
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Camera — Detailed Guide
A tool for taking photos
The Camera is a tool in ARK: Survival Evolved for taking pictures, and a different item from the Tek Remote Camera. The in-game text keeps it short: "Equip, target, and take a shot!." A photo can serve as the source when painting a canvas, through the Load Paints From This Type option.
Shooting and printing
A picture is taken by holding one mouse button and then pressing the other, and the flash can be switched on or off before the shot. Inside the game, only the 
Painting Canvas accepts an uploaded photo; on PC, the ARK Wiki adds, players can also edit pictures through the game's picture folder. Screen effects, such as an active 
Tek Helmet, show up in the photo. Pictures taken in single player can be printed later on an official multiplayer server.
An expensive recipe
The wiki counts it among the costliest tools in the game. The engram unlocks at level 50 for 30 engram points, and our data names the 
Spyglass and the 
Magnifying Glass as prerequisites. It is crafted in a 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle from:
- 240
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 150
Obsidian - 140
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 100
Sap - 80
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 80
Black Pearl - 30
Hide
A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 2 XP. The Camera weighs 0.5 and has 40 durability; a repair costs 120 Crystal, 75 Obsidian, 70 Metal Ingot, 50 Sap, 40 Wood, 40 Black Pearl and 15 Hide.
Known bugs
Two problems are recorded on the wiki. Photos that need purple dye can report a missing 0% of purple, because the game has two item IDs for that dye and the camera uses one that cannot be crafted; the workaround is to use the other dye ID or to edit the .pnt file with a third-party program such as ARKPntEditor. Uploading a picture to a canvas can also disconnect the player partway through: the paint already applied is lost, the painting cannot be finished, and later attempts start over from the beginning.
Loot
44 crate types can contain a Camera, among them the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Green crates on Genesis Part 2. Our records list it on 14 maps.