On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A lot of my equine sales come from people that have there own Canon and Nikon Dslr's, but to their own admission, take poor photos with them.
I have had a number of conversations with parents and the cameras they have. First think i ask is what shutter speed, Fstop and ISO do you use. I don't know, i just have it on the A mode here. ISO is like a foreign language to most of these folks:-) I try and explain they need faster shutter speeds etc to get the action forzen. They don't want to listen, or care, and carry on in Auto mode. It happens a lot BTW. Dave > > The best line came from a young mom in last Saturday's class. I > referred to "point and shoot" cameras. She said hers was more of a > "poke and hope." > > Yeah, I'm stealing that line. > > See you later, gs > <http://georgesphotos.net> > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:52 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob W" >> Subject: RE: Uh oh >> >> >> >>> I suspect it can take a lot of people a long time to understand why >>> reflected or matrix light meters can get things wrong, or why AF >>> doesn't always F where they want it to. It depends in the end on how >>> keen people are really to learn what to do. >> >> It also depends on how stoic they are about insisting that the miracle of >> automation they bought >> is either perfect in every detail, or else third rate crap. >> Just about every complaint I have read about cameras since I got onto the >> internet is either >> something that can be fixed by either reading the owners manual, or else >> reading a good book >> about photographic theory, and then putting what you have read into practice. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
