Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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