Unlike other apps of its genre, CP provides continuous visual feedback—you can see whether your hand is shaking and how badly off-level you are right as you are framing the picture. When you click on the camera button, the app waits until you’re still before taking a picture, thus ensuring blur-free images every time.

CP is the second app that I wrote—the first one hasn’t been approved yet. I decided to build it for a number of reasons: first, while I love to take pictures with the iPhone, the built-in camera app is just too unpredictable to function well (the camera itself is not stellar, either, but it’s not like I can do anything about that). Second, applications like Night Camera don’t give me the kind of continuous feedback that I like—if I want to take a picture, I’d rather use an application that helps me keep my hands steady before I hit the shutter, and I don’t want to have to wait seconds for the application to shoot while my subject moves or goes away. Finally, it’s too easy to hold the phone at an angle and take crooked pictures, which I totally despise.

I am already working on several improvements to the application—chief among them the ability to upload directly to a number of online photo services like TwitPic and Flickr. This, incidentally, will also allow me to embed GPS information in the pictures, which I am currently prevented from doing by Apple’s photo roll API.

And now, to figure out how to sell this thing… let me start with this: I have 5 coupons that will let you get a copy of CP for free. The first 5 people to DM me on Twitter get them! Note: CP works only with an iPhone—don’t DM me if you only own an iPod, because you won’t be able to use it.

Also, since 140 characters isn’t enough to explain Apple’s genius coupon system, this is how you can redeem the coupon if you’re one of the lucky five:

1. Open iTunes

2. Go to the iTunes Store’s main page

3. Click on “redeem”

4. Enter your coupon code

5. Follow the instructions from there on

6. You will need to sync your iPhone in order to install the application (obviously)