I don’t advocate the use of Cell phone
cameras for serious photography. But there is one clearly unique advantage of
Cell phone cameras over dedicated cameras that nobody can deny.
CELL PHONE CAMERA IS WITH YOU
CONSTANTLY,
EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY.
Generally, people make only one use of this special
advantage. That is – To take candid shots of people and places. No doubt that
this is a very good use, given the ever increasing quality of cell phone
cameras.
But practically speaking, a cell phone camera can prove to be
a much more useful device if one thinks of some constructive ways of using
it!
Here are few clever ways to take full advantage of your cell phone
camera you probably never thought of!
1.Never forget where you
parked your vehicle!
Well, this happens to all
of us, all the time. We park our car/bike in the parking lot or somewhere on the
road-side and just leave.
After 2-3 hours when that
movie, dinner or shopping gets over…we have forgotten where the vehicle was
parked!
Actually all you need to
do is, just click a quick snap of the vehicle with the surroundings (including
shops, pillars, special signs, or other landmark). When you come back to take
your vehicle back, just have a look at that picture and you will locate your vehicle in
almost one third of the usual time!!!
2.Check how you look!
You are going for
that important interview, meeting or may be a date…but you are not sure how are
you looking at that point of time in the day…You don’t have a mirror, there is
not one around either…well, sometimes even the elevator you are using may not
have one too…
In this crisis situation, instead of trying to see your blurry self in some reflective surface, just take a pic of yourself with your cell phone camera, and you will have a very nice instant close-up for yourself to check out how you look!
3.Purchase exactly
what you liked!
Do you remember the exact
name/brand logo/packaging of that new yogurt/noodles/cookies/chips/juice/some
other thing that you discovered accidentally last month??
In this era of
shopping malls and globalization we are flooded with infinite options of all
this foods and fast moving items. We buy new things to experiment, consume
them and also, actually like the new discovery too, but then we just forget what it
was. Reason being - may be things written were in foreign language, or simply, the sheer
number of varieties we are bombarded with in the malls. When after days, or
even months, we want to make a repeat purchase of that item we find ourselves
nothing but lost.
Next time you like
something very much, just click and keep a simple image of the item/package in
your cell phone camera…
4.Never get lost in unfamiliar
places!
This one is extremely
useful for the directionally challenged…Sometimes, when we visit a totally new
place for the first time, we ask local people for directions, see maps,
remember landmarks and actually find the destination successfully…BUT, when it
comes to returning back, we have forgotten everything!
What you can do is,
just take a lot of snaps of various landmarks, turns and directions as you
move forward towards the destination. On the way back, you can verify each step of the correct route by looking into the snaps in your own
cell phone! In fact, you will feel safer than ever!!
Not only this, next
time you visit that place, even after a long time, you have your own visual guide
(set of those images) to help you reach the destination faster than ever!!!
5.Get an instant copy
of important information!
More often than not,
when we come across some important written material (be it some ad, notice, contact
details, signboard, map, news or some official document) either we try to memorize
it or try to get it photocopied or scanned…most of the time, these things are
not feasible on the spot. Why not take out that cell phone and take a quick
snap-shot?
6.Don’t lose your
reminder notes!
This is particularly
useful for those who still use this (traditional) way of writing everything on
small reminder/memo pads sticked on places like fridge doors or above the desk.
What happens most of
the times is, we keep noting down our lists very carefully on this small chits
of papers. Then when we actually set out for implementing that list/shopping,
we simply misplace or lose that piece of paper somewhere.
Next
time, after you have completed writing the list, just take a nice snap of that paper note before you head out!
Article © 2012 Gyaneshwari Dave
