[rollei_list] Re: OT: Going over to the Dark Side
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:56:12 -0500
At 03:54 PM 7/12/2010, Laurence Cuffe wrote, in part:
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 really wont trust a machine
until our knowledge of it is as complete as possible.
That also explains why our kids take all the new gadgets (cell
phones, cameras, ipods, whatever) out of the box and start using them
immediately, and generally, very effectively. Their interest is in
using it, not immediately mastering it.
We, on the other hand, seem to think that we have to know everything
all at once before we use something.
As for me, I keep the most simple cell phone available because it
allows me to talk to someone. Over time I learned that it makes
voice recordings, plays music I transfer to it, and takes pictures
and movies. I actually do use those things now, including the alarm
to wake me in the morning, but all those are secondary issues that I
gradually learned over time.
The same holds, as Laurence says, with digital cameras. Just start
with automatic shooting and try the other features from time to
time. Even now that I know about how to use all the special features
of my digital cameras, I rarely use anything more than the auto and
close-up modes.
DAW
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