You're a mom? :-)
Tom C. >From: "cbwaters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD >Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:59:35 -0400 > >I have two girls, 7 & 8 years old. >I totally understand where this mom is coming from. >It's easy to read mindless drivel on the inter-web (pdml?) with kids >running >around. Reading for comprehension? Well, lets just say I didn't read a >novel for years after Dana was born. > >CW > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:38 PM >Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD > > > > She's probably a very sweet mom, which isn't a bad thing nowadays. Just >a > > little technically challenged. :-) > > > > > > > > Tom C. > > > > > >>From: "wendy beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >>Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD > >>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:35:46 -0400 > >> > >>kiss a booboo? > >> > >>On 5/1/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > There is a very silly conversation that just occured in the Yahoo >*istD > >> > group. I've omitted the names to protect the innocent. > >> > > >> > QUESTION: OK let me preface this by saying that I know I could >probably > >>get > >> > the > >> > answer by reading my user manual. However... I have 3 kids uner 5 and > >> > they have not given me any time to read. Pictures I can take while > >> > they go wild, reading however doesn't sink in when you have to stop > >> > every 10 seconds to correct them or kiss a booboo. > >> > > >> > OK what is the little red square that blinks and beeps while I am > >> > looking the the viewfinder? Why won't it let me take a picture until > >> > that beeps? Its driving me nuts, I have missed many good shots >because > >> > of it. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > ANSWER: That is the auto focus working, You can use the camera in > >> > manual > >>and > >> > this will not happen but you will have to focus the camera manually. > >>Hope > >> > this helps > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > RESPONSE: I have tried in manual and it does the same thing. If its >not > >> > focused "properly" it won't let me take the picture, even if it > >> > appears focused to me or it is how I want the photo to look. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > NEXT ANSWER: Push the little button down on the side to manual >instead > >>of > >> > auto focus, and it will fire whether it is in focus or not. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > NEXT ANSWER: Ooops, I see that is what you just said. Sorry, I can't > >>think > >> > of anything else. Is the lens mounted tight? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > It's funny that there's time to sit in front of the 'puter, read and > >>write > >> > e-mail, but not time to look at the manual. Probably not a person >that > >> > needs or should have a DSLR. > >> > > >> > Tom C. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > >> > >>-- > >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>[email protected] > >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/782 - Release Date: 5/1/2007 > > 2:10 AM > > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
