A laugh for the weekend

[etrigan63]

Saw this over at LUF and had to post it here. Sums up the Leica arguments pretty well.

 

[John Robertson]

😀 True but you will get shot for this!!!

 

[Nando]

It almost mirrors a conversation I had with a student a few days ago. She found out later that she had to exchange the camera because she switched the language to Chinese and then couldn't figure out how to get it back to English.

 

[dexdog]

I don't think that you will get shot for posting this. On the other hand, I don't think that the cartoon is funny or entertaining.

Every camera user has to identify their own purposes and uses for any camera.

Personally, I like fooling around with manual cameras. Some folks that I consider to be good photographers, i.e., people who capture good images, could not care less about thinking through and planning a shot, prefer to trust to programmed apertures/shutter speeds to get the shot.

YMMV

 

[thomasw_]

i thought the irony was hilarious! thanks for posting it.

Some folks that I consider to be good photographers, i.e., people who capture good images, could not care less about thinking through and planning a shot, prefer to trust to programmed apertures/shutter speeds to get the shot.

Then it NOT the person doing any thoughtful or creative action...instead, rather de-humanized by avoiding the creative process in snagging a shot.

 

[dexdog]

I strongly disagree. The person behind the camera still has to decide how to frame the shot, and when to trip the shutter

 

[John Robertson]

I strongly disagree. The person behind the camera still has to decide how to frame the shot, and when to trip the shutter

Feel free to disagree, as long as you can accept that there are others who will disagree with you🙂

 

[dexdog]

likewise, in your case🙂

 

[MartinP]

It almost mirrors a conversation I had with a student a few days ago. She found out later that she had to exchange the camera because she switched the language to Chinese and then couldn't figure out how to get it back to English.

That is hilarious - I think I may have woken the neighbours laughing at your post.

One would hope that there is a "reset to defaults" button, or menu-sequence, mentioned in the camera handbook for just this sort of eventuality 😉

It is more funny because recently I have had to do helpdesk calls on someones e-mail software which was in traditional-chinese, being used on a laptop far away in the Czech Republic. Fortunately the menu-options were structured the same as in the Dutch version....

Referring to the original post, yes that's the way things are going. Perhaps someone can combine a GPS navigation system, a "modern" camera and an electric wheelchair - then photography can become much less demanding ?

 

[etrigan63]

I had that "language problem" happen to me on an HP 5500 Color Laserjet at work. Some cretin was messing with the menus and left the system in Chinese. Highly comical. Trading it out was not an option. I went to the HP site, downloaded the manual and looking at the menu tree diagram, "navigated by feel" to the language menu and set it back to English. That certainly bolstered my reputation as a miracle worker.

 

[nikon_sam]

The person who laughs at this comic is the person who knows it's true...and that is also the sad part of it...

 

[RichC]

The cartoon made me chuckle...!

My friend Ant has an all-singing, all-dancing camera that he leaves on automatic. He has no interest whatsoever in knowing how his camera works, and would just stare at my M8, perplexed. But he takes very good photos: http://www.bhcc-online.org/gallery/v/Ant/.

At the end of the day, what counts is the photographer's eye, not the tool...