Pieter Nagel wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:01, Bill Owens wrote: > > I've since changed the AF mode to spot, and the Picture mode to "Smiley > > Face" and taught her how to focus, then recompose. > > I've always wondered how someone whose camera has a "smiley face", > "tulip flower" and "running athlete" is supposed to decide which setting > to use when confronted with, say, a cow? :-)
Especially one with a silly grin on her mug, and a flower in her mouth! keith whaley > That's actually a serious question. One has to mentally reverse-map: > "well, usually people take single flowers close-up, and flowers are > small; this spider I want to photograph is small, and I want to be close > up; so I suppose I have to set my camera to 'tulip' to photograph the > spider". > > By the time one knows enough about photography to do the reverse > mapping, I would presume one would be better served by thinking directly > in terms of "macro". - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
