Good job! You should have been a teacher. Paul
> On Oct 18, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hidehi PDMLers > > A friend of my wife's has been after a 'digital camera lesson' for some time, > and she finally came around last Friday. I had been dreading it, but actually > it went very well. She's a musician (violin) and artist. > > She's in her 60s and many years ago had used 35mm cameras and even developed > her own film, and printed. But this new-fangled digital was giving her a > headache... > > I pinched a few pics of the interwebz and printed them out, breakdown of a > mirrorless and DSLR, f-stops, ISO sensitivity etc - I knew she had a DSLR and > was prepared for her to produce a Canon - but no! Out came a Pentax Kr.... > > The lesson was about 90 minutes and started with basics, progressing onto > exposure and how crucial the lens choice was and so on. The one thing that > threw her was the mode dial up top. So we went through the whole PASM thing, > and I explained what each meant. She was very enthusiastic and despite my > providing some primer sheets, she took notes in a booklet. I had my Olympus > Pen F on hand, and of course then sensor sizes needed explaining. > > When we got onto how aperture affects the photo, I retrieved my K50/1.4 and > put that on her camera (which only had an 18-55 kit lens) and let her have a > play - she was amazed that the lens worked and illustrated perfectly the > concepts discussed using the live preview facility. She was astonished to > learn that you can pick up a 50/1.7 for peanuts off eBay - and apparently > spent the evening scouring for some bargains. > > I also had my MX at hand, and that was great for showing how the shutter > works, stripped of lens and back. So much better to have the hardware in > front of you to illustrate theory.... > > That's all really. Found the Kr to be a usable camera, perfect for her. Some > of the menus were a bit confusing, but got there. And the rubbish up there on > the mode dial! Get rid of it all and just have PASM (although it took me a > minute to figure out that Sv was not 'shutter priority' haha - the Pentax > obviously being 'PATMS'....) > > Work picking up a bit for me finally, and been shooting some more sailing > things, got a 30 minute doc about a gaff-rigged cutter built in France in > 1913 called the Jolie Brise coming out soon, so will post a link in case > anyone's interested. All shot on a (new to me) Sony PMW-F3. > > Meanwhile, more boat building tomorrow! Filmmaker, photographer, and also now > rigger, cabinet-maker, plumber and electrician. > > Needs must... > > Cheers all > > cotty > > > > > -- > 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.
