Dear JoTo,
Thank you for your kind words. Your description is most clarifying, and
matches my expectations about the artefacts caused by the firmware bugs.
The switching back and forth between the different views is a consequence
of the video capturing and display painting running asynchronously under
firmware control, which becomes noticeable now that the two are misaligned.
Your observation that the small high contrast view shows approximately
the top left part of the full camera view is also consistent with what
I'd expect. Actually my tunnel vision analogy was not entirely correct:
it is more like an unintended zoom effect as with a telescope, where you
get a higher acuity for distant items at the expense of the peripheral
view. The small view is by default a high contrast greyscale view. It is
positive (default) or negative depending on whether or not the negative
video mode was toggled by key "1".
A German or international version will probably come someday, but not
anytime soon, because of the maintenance drag of ensuring consistency
across languages while developing. For that reason I also do not offer
a Dutch version (my own native language).
I much appreciate your offer to help, and I will definitely remember.
Your current clarification was already most helpful in confirming the
expected side effects of the series 60 third edition firmware issues
that I was only recently made aware of.
Also thanks to hecke. I will update my documentation a bit, because
indeed one could not readily know the intended behaviour in advance.
For now we can only hope that Nokia fixes the series 60 third edition
problems for their various phones through some firmware upgrade, but
they rarely announce what they fix with what upgrades. For reasons
like these, and because it is not feasible to test each and every phone,
quality user feedback such as provided through this forum is extremely
valuable for developers. It is really appreciated.
Ich sollte mal besser Deutsch lernen, aber die Zeit fehlt mir leider...
Vielen dank!
Peter Meijer