Re: OT-Interesting fact about my ebay purchased Oly C-5050

2005-07-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Graywolf wrote: See what I mean about how complicated these robocams are. You have to read the reference manual, and be able to understand what they are saying between the lines, just to use simple features. However I can not complain too much, his BIN would ha

Re: OT-Interesting fact about my ebay purchased Oly C-5050

2005-07-16 Thread David Savage
This week we got a new camera for work (Canon Ixus 50). Me being the resident "camera guy" I was tasked with setting it up. Holy Crap! Give me my *ist D any day. The amount of stuff buried in sub-sub-sub menus is outrageous. (Remember the *ist D was my first ever digital camera) Mind you, it take

RE: OT-Interesting fact about my ebay purchased Oly C-5050

2005-07-15 Thread Don Sanderson
e to admit, the 5050 manual was still quite a challenge for me. BTW: Try some "Macro Mode" stuff with it, it's great! Don > -Original Message- > From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:39 PM > To: Pentax Discussion Malling Li

OT-Interesting fact about my ebay purchased Oly C-5050

2005-07-15 Thread Graywolf
I have been a bit under the weather the past week and have not done anything more about learning to use the digicam until today. The seller said that the IR remote control never worked since day one. Reading the manual I turned on the remote sensor, set the camera on the ottoman in front of my