Um... What? CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD
> You're a mom? :-) > > > > Tom C. > > >>From: "cbwaters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >>Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD >>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:59:35 -0400 >> >>I have two girls, 7 & 8 years old. >>I totally understand where this mom is coming from. >>It's easy to read mindless drivel on the inter-web (pdml?) with kids >>running >>around. Reading for comprehension? Well, lets just say I didn't read a >>novel for years after Dana was born. >> >>CW >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <pdml@pdml.net> >>Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:38 PM >>Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD >> >> >> > She's probably a very sweet mom, which isn't a bad thing nowadays. >> > Just >>a >> > little technically challenged. :-) >> > >> > >> > >> > Tom C. >> > >> > >> >>From: "wendy beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> >>Subject: Re: Clueless - on Yahoo Groups *istD >> >>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:35:46 -0400 >> >> >> >>kiss a booboo? >> >> >> >>On 5/1/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > There is a very silly conversation that just occured in the Yahoo >>*istD >> >> > group. I've omitted the names to protect the innocent. >> >> > >> >> > QUESTION: OK let me preface this by saying that I know I could >>probably >> >>get >> >> > the >> >> > answer by reading my user manual. However... I have 3 kids uner 5 >> >> > and >> >> > they have not given me any time to read. Pictures I can take while >> >> > they go wild, reading however doesn't sink in when you have to stop >> >> > every 10 seconds to correct them or kiss a booboo. >> >> > >> >> > OK what is the little red square that blinks and beeps while I am >> >> > looking the the viewfinder? Why won't it let me take a picture until >> >> > that beeps? Its driving me nuts, I have missed many good shots >>because >> >> > of it. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > ANSWER: That is the auto focus working, You can use the camera in >> >> > manual >> >>and >> >> > this will not happen but you will have to focus the camera manually. >> >>Hope >> >> > this helps >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > RESPONSE: I have tried in manual and it does the same thing. If its >>not >> >> > focused "properly" it won't let me take the picture, even if it >> >> > appears focused to me or it is how I want the photo to look. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > NEXT ANSWER: Push the little button down on the side to manual >>instead >> >>of >> >> > auto focus, and it will fire whether it is in focus or not. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > NEXT ANSWER: Ooops, I see that is what you just said. Sorry, I >> >> > can't >> >>think >> >> > of anything else. Is the lens mounted tight? >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > It's funny that there's time to sit in front of the 'puter, read and >> >>write >> >> > e-mail, but not time to look at the manual. Probably not a person >>that >> >> > needs or should have a DSLR. >> >> > >> >> > Tom C. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >> > PDML@pdml.net >> >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > >> >> >> >>-- >> >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >>PDML@pdml.net >> >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > PDML@pdml.net >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/782 - Release Date: 5/1/2007 >> > 2:10 AM >> > >> > >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>PDML@pdml.net >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/782 - Release Date: 5/1/2007 > 2:10 AM > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
