I have been frustrated with my digital camera as of late. I purchased it about 6 months ago at Best Buy for around $400. When I first got it, I was very pleased, then slowly it seemed the quality of my photo taking sessions deteriorated. I’d take like 100 pix and by the time I sifted through them, I would end up keeping only around 20 or 30. The others I would end up deleting due to various issues such as lighting, blur, grainy quality, etc…
So finally being fed up. Last night I emailed my good friend Barb (Xerraire) to ask for advice on which camera to purchase. Barb is somewhat of a photography buff and she even created a site called UniqueExposures which is dedicated to the subject. She Sent me hyper-links to various suggestions of hers. I was working myself up, to get a quality camera to record my family memories, I was prepared to spend over $1,000 if neccessary.
I was reading various reviews at the site she sent me to. While there, I came across none other than my very own camera I presently own and was looking to replace. Curiousity got the best of me so I delved into customer reviews of the camera. To my utter astonishment, most all of the reviews were extremely favorable. Now these reviewers are pretty much all professionals and were talking about technical jargon I had no clue about. Stuff like aperature, ISO, Shutter Speed, Macro, etc..etc..
Heavy eyes and yawning finally got the best of me so I hit the sack around 1a.m. This morning, I awoke at 6a.m. and a revelation came to me. What if I read the little booklet that came with my camera? I began to frantically search the cabinets in the hutch above my computer and to my great relief, came across the original box for the camera. And there it was, the little booklet, still unopened in it’s orginal plastic bag it was packaged with at the factory.
I put on a pot of coffee, took the booklet, camera, and myself onto the front porch and began my camera education. Turns out, I had the dials and swithces all messed up on that camera, it’s a wonder I got any good pix at all. I never knew my camera could do half the stuff it’s capable of. Check out the results of my morning DigiCam tutorial… Sorry for putting you through all that trouble for nothing Barb, forgive me?
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Beautiful photos, and well done.
Now if only I could rope you to become a member at UE….
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Actually there is a lot of help there for all levels of photography, and you’d be extremely welcome.
As for helping…its only a fraction on how you and Wendy have helped me along the way. Have fun with your camera.
I never would have ever imagined reading the instructions of something to find out how to use it. Thanks Mike.
Instructions? Things come with instructions?
Cheese Whiz looks really good. How’s he been lately? Did he come with instructions?
Yeah guys! It had a little booklet complete with pictures & Glossary. Who would have thunk it?
My poor Cheese… he’s such a good natured dog! He went for a walk with us up the Mountain yesterday and actually did better than Wendy and I… hehehe
Good to hear that The Wiz is doing well. He’s cutier then the Toco Bell dog any day!
Say, what’s Tommy Lee Jones doing on your four wheeler?
I think I’ll take that as a compliment. hehehe Speaking of which, if you had dug a little deeper you might have noticed that I actually put something up on the “About Me” page. Complete with the same pix… just bigger!