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so that I can record "problems/defects" on site more efficiently.
Confused, you bet I am - it wants to tell me how to take images
there are 22 scene modes
such as
Landscape
Landscape + portrait
Night scene
Night + portrait
Underwater wide
Underwater wide 2
Underwater macro
fireworks
cuisine
shoot and select 1
shoot and select 2
sunset
candle
and so on
its even got image stabilisation
err - how do I use it??? isn't it supposed to be a point and shoot thingy
Venom
haha yeh there supposed to be point a shoot but i think the new ones have ideas above their stations.
Lots of the point and shoots now have many manual features to try and keep people interested.
Have fun mate
creators
jonH
mum's canon compact has loads of different modes in the menus and portrait + landscape modes on the main dial. i just told her to use portrait if she didn't want everyting in focus and landscape when she did.. she still just uses full auto!
creators
On a more serious note, this is, for me, about bells and whistles and pre-set programs that annoy the hell out of me. The reason my next computer will be a Mac is because, if I have a machine with 4Gb of Ram I want that power used to do the things I want to do, and not to be taken up by the operating system and all the pointless gizmos, effects and pre-sets the programmers have decided I want and over which I have very little control.
I now have Vista working reasonably well on my laptop because I trawled the web to find out how to switch all the frills and fancy rubbish off.
A DSLR just is not that complicated, other than the learning process involves abstract ideas of light and time which do require some thought and application to grasp, but which once learnt apply across the board. Compacts offer people what appears to be a simpler route, but break that age old and utterly indispensable rule, form follows function.
If you break that rule you get what the fashion industry is, a very silly, sophisticated (highly complicated and ludicrously overdeveloped {profit making}) industry, which equally silly people revere, in which function follows form, but which sensible people see for what it is, pointless and ridiculous. But then being sensible, using your noggin and choosing not to be ignorant is so uncool these days.
Rant, rant, ranty, rant etc.
hil26
Keith - couldn't have said it better myself
hil26
jonH wrote:
i just told her to use portrait if she didn't want everyting in focus and landscape when she did.. o!
that's how I will be using it, I just cannot be bothered trying to learn the bits and pieces needed - that said, I am told that macro on a good compact can give some really excellent results - might try it one day.
