Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, I may have been a bit flip. I certainly didn't mean to demean the ability of anyone in this group - much less Brian - to understand a camera control menu. My problem with the multitude of menus and sub menus is probably because I'm not shooting every day and can't remember what is where; when I know what I want to do before I 'click' I can't quickly retrieve the right way to do it. On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:49 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I don't want to be argumentative. Stemming from a conversation I had with > a Pentax rep about the Pentax Zoom 105 camera from maybe 15-20 years ago. > I pointed out that the camera gave the consumer way too many options for a > P&S; those options were limiting sales because talented people like Brian > looked at the menus and thought, MEH, that's too much for a camera I just > want to turn on and take pictures. The rep told me that all the features > had regional preferences and that it cost too much to burn chips and alter > menus for different regions and culture so we all got all of it. > > The new cameras are the same in that many capabilities can be incorporated > for different photographic needs. I just acquired a new A7R IV. The menus > might let you smoke a brisket while shooting video while storing stills on > the second card. I have found that if you start with what you want the > camera for; you can browse the menu to find the settings that let you do > those things. So, video, don't care and that leaves half the menus > forgotten. Face recognition, you bet for my daughter and her husband. > Register the face and the camera will recognize them and focus on their > eyes, or if you care only the left or right eye. Focus tracking can be set > with the AFM function that defaults to single shot but will go into > continuous focus when the main subject moves: Brian think of your new grand > daughter when she is 2 1/2. With computers and storage so inexpensive set > the resolution up to the highest in RAW with no compression using the > widest color gamut your camera will shoot(sometimes you want a JPEG for > quick delivery) To shorten this, just work through the menus the first > time with an internet connection close by to search for those terms and > nomenclature that are unfamiliar to you and just go through the menu. > > Last, sometimes you just have to question someone else. I complained to > the Sony Rep that the definition of my new camera wasn't quite what I > thought it should be when shutter speeds were close to 1/focal length. He > said that with long exposure noise reduction on that the camera would > soften the images even when shutter speeds were fastish(say 1/30). Just a > quirk of the camera and when I turned it off the images became what i > thought they should be. > > Most of us on this list have had and are still having very accomplished > lives. Exercise that brain a little more, don't fight the menu. Learn > what some of the smartest people in camera production have come up with > that let capture the image in true Ted Grant "WOW, click, I don't believe I > just saw that" > > all the best. > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:28 PM Robert Baron via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > My cataract surgery wasn't the problem; shoulder and other issues have > made > > light weight and autofocus necessities for me. > > > > Did you consider the Leica digital CL? > > > > If you want complicated you should consider the Sony or Olympus > offerings. > > But then you would need an extra gadget bag to carry the 12 year old who > > would interpret the control menus for you...... > > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:06 PM Brian Reid <reid at > > mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > wrote: > > > > > After cataract surgery I was having real difficulty focusing my M. So I > > > traded it in on a Q2, which (being vastly more complex) took me a while > > > to learn how to use. These are the first pictures from it that I'm > > > willing to show anyone. > > > > > > My granddaughter Nora Margaret Reid-Sarch lives in London. She and her > > > parents arrived last night for a weeklong stay. > > > > > > I got this picture as soon as they walked in the door. That is Nora's > > > Aunt Elizabeth holding her: > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/family/51ada323-6b63-4ae2-947e-fce05b584e2f-o.jpg.html > > > > > > Mom Vanessa talks to Dad while Nora studies the boxes of food in the > > > pantry: > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/family/b784c4d0-6c04-41a9-b13e-f1ed33aee5a4-o.jpg.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >