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[tysolna]

Digital camera = instant gratification.
Not knowing how to work said digital camera = instant frustration.

Now where did I put the manual...

Comments

[nugirlontheblok.livejournal.com]

Most instructions can be found on the internet if you can't find your manual- and there are some handy tutorial sites for digital photography as well :)

[tysolna]

Thanks for the tip; it's strange, but I can find things easier online than in my room. Which tells you something about the state of my room.
I'll check out the tutorials next!

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I love the way people only read the manual as a last act of desperation, heh.

[tysolna]

I suppose it's growing up on pirated Commodore 64 games - we never had a manual, so we go by intuition and trial & error. Most of the time, it seems to work, too! ;)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Writing as someone who's produced technical manuals and read plenty, many of them are no use whatsover, either overly complicated or written for someone who already knows how the kit works.

[tysolna]

Also, the thing one's looking for is not in there. Or hidden in a section one would never have thought to look, and only found when looking for something else entirely.
As someone who's produced tech manuals, could you tel me if there is a conspiracy of tech manual writers? ;)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

I have one worse. Ann got her head around her new Panasonic camera, took a special trip out to Jervaulx Abbey (http://stevegreen.livejournal.com/31576.html) during our holiday, then discovered the disks she'd bought crashed the dvd drive. Luckily, I was able to reboot it later and we made a second trip.

[tysolna]

The easier things are supposed to are, the more buggy they get, it seems.
If it were me, I would have been sure that the pictures I took on the second tirp weren't as good as the one from the first one.