[rollei_list] Re: OT: Going over to the Dark Side
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:33:51 -0400
At 04:54 PM 7/12/2010, Laurence Cuffe wrote:
Marc, I'm glad to see you have the card reader
problem solved, and I sympathize with you sense
of being intimidated by all the menu's and
options open to you. This is a problem in
teaching computers, a good many of us of a
certain technical bent realy wont trust a
machine until our knowlege of it is as complete
as posible. It is not a constructive atitude
when starting out with either computers or
digital cameras, as it tends to paralyse us right at the start.
So, for a digital camera, may I sugest the following:
Shoot twenty shots on full automatic. Then find
the aperture priority setting, shoot twenty more
playing with this. Then find the shutter priority seting, shoot twenty more.
You know what these setings should do, examine
your results to find out how close you got. Now
you have sixty images. Upload them to a computer
so you can see them in more detail, and start
looking for technical failures, shots which went
to white, shots which got blurred or where the colour went funny.
Now go back into the manual and try and see how
to sort out each of these issues. Because you
are now trying to solve specific problems, your
manual reading is much more focused and
therefore constructive. After you repeat this
process for a couple of iterations you will find
you have a core set of knowlege of your digital
camera which you can build on and which will
start delivering results that you can be comfortable with.
All the best
Larry (Wearing my digital literacy hat "You are
only in comand of technology when you can create in it!")
Thank you, Larry. This is very sage advice. I
am gradually learning my way around the camera
and will wander over to AV and TV tomorrow. I
will need AV once my M42 adapter gets here and I
start improving the camera with Soviet and
Kilfitt lenses, not to mention my Questar
3.5. Once I get a T-Adapter, I will be trying out the Leica APO-Televid.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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