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Video: Carl Zeiss makes the worst Symbian application ever, should stick to optics

Categories: Applications, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 5:03 AM

Carl Zeiss, makers of various lenses and other optical equipment, created a Symbian application that is … well just watch the video below. Shot by James Burland, this video demonstrates the poor attempt Carl Zeiss took at creating a guide to help people take better photos. Here is a tip boys and girls: you have a digital camera and a memory card that can store thousands of images. Just snap away until your trigger finger falls off. Practice makes perfect!

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ausfest

    What was that! LOL

  • PseudoFinn

    “Just snap away until your trigger finger falls off. Practice makes perfect!”

    That statement is partly true- but IMHO mostly wrong. Sure, if you snap off a thousand shots, you’re likely to get a few good ones- but that’s a “1000 monkeys with 1000 typewriters” deal. In my experience, if you just get lucky with a few shots after hastily snapping a hundred of them you’re not learning anything- and practice won’t make perfect. If you slow down, pay attention to (and understand) what you’re doing and why one picture was better than the one you just took after tweaking settings and features, you’ll take far better pictures more often, and blow/miss less shots.

    You have to practice technique, not practice pushing a button. Unless you’re willing and able to diagnose why some shots are better than some, you’ll never *really* get better at taking photographs.

    The application might look like garbage, but the content contained within it will do you and your photographs much greater good than snapping away until your finger wears out if you have no knowledge or understanding of why one snap is better than another.