What bemused you today?

[jinky]

Yes - shot many a sunset on the east coast myself- we do still see the sun rise and go Reinardina  . Just a matter of where you perch yourself and the lay of the land / sun.

As for Pokemon it`s just crazy! see so many groups of adults  wandering around town with their phones up and  people who really should know better at their age talking on Facebook about how it is a way of socialising ! For God`s sake! What`s wrong with talking to others without looking for make believe  little creatures that don`t exist?

[Simple]

I do not mind this Pokémon craze. I think a lot of people will get run over or get hurt. It is Natural Selection at its best.

[Reinardina]

I read in the paper today, that a man managed to catch all 143 characters (the 142 you apparently can catch in Britain, plus an American one). He lost  lost 2 stone in the process.

So the game should be available on the NHS, to counteract obesity.

And yes, lots of them will get hurt in the process, so Elfin Safety probably would not allow it.

[Oldboy]

I do not mind this Pokémon craze. I think a lot of people will get run over or get hurt. It is Natural Selection at its best.

[DigiDiva]

I do not mind this Pokémon craze. I think a lot of people will get run over or get hurt. It is Natural Selection at its best.

Haha that's harsh

[eysha]

It has been a very long time since I last visited this site so today this site bemused me - a lot.  I have totally forgotten how to use this site so spent ages looking around it and still lost. I do find it a bemusing site.
Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a second-hand Canon 60D so was looking for information/instruction etcetera but where to go is bemusing.
Hi to anyone who might remember me but it has been so long I doubt anyone will.
Off to rest the bemused head, lol.

[jinky]

It has been a very long time since I last visited this site so today this site bemused me - a lot.  I have totally forgotten how to use this site so spent ages looking around it and still lost. I do find it a bemusing site.
Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a second-hand Canon 60D so was looking for information/instruction etcetera but where to go is bemusing.
Hi to anyone who might remember me but it has been so long I doubt anyone will.
Off to rest the bemused head, lol.

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy 

[Reinardina]

It has been a very long time since I last visited this site so today this site bemused me - a lot.  I have totally forgotten how to use this site so spent ages looking around it and still lost. I do find it a bemusing site.
Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a second-hand Canon 60D so was looking for information/instruction etcetera but where to go is bemusing.
Hi to anyone who might remember me but it has been so long I doubt anyone will.
Off to rest the bemused head, lol.

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy 

I too find this post bemusing. Is there really so much difference, between your Canon 60D and the Nikon D40 you bought two years ago, that you have to look for instruction? But if so, Mr Google is always very helpful.

[jinky]

It has been a very long time since I last visited this site so today this site bemused me - a lot.  I have totally forgotten how to use this site so spent ages looking around it and still lost. I do find it a bemusing site.
Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a second-hand Canon 60D so was looking for information/instruction etcetera but where to go is bemusing.
Hi to anyone who might remember me but it has been so long I doubt anyone will.
Off to rest the bemused head, lol.

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy 

I too find this post bemusing. Is there really so much difference, between your Canon 60D and the Nikon D40 you bought two years ago, that you have to look for instruction? But if so, Mr Google is always very helpful.

Come on R - don`t put returning members off! Actually Canon do everything the wrong way round to a Nikon user so it can be confusing picking one up. Of course any new camera takes getting used to and a period of learning. I know that I barely use my LX100 to it`s maximum potential as it enthuses me so little that I have failed to look into an online manual and use stuiff like shots drawn for a 4k video and the like which it does.

[Reinardina]

It has been a very long time since I last visited this site so today this site bemused me - a lot.  I have totally forgotten how to use this site so spent ages looking around it and still lost. I do find it a bemusing site.
Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a second-hand Canon 60D so was looking for information/instruction etcetera but where to go is bemusing.
Hi to anyone who might remember me but it has been so long I doubt anyone will.
Off to rest the bemused head, lol.

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy 

I too find this post bemusing. Is there really so much difference, between your Canon 60D and the Nikon D40 you bought two years ago, that you have to look for instruction? But if so, Mr Google is always very helpful.

Come on R - don`t put returning members off! Actually Canon do everything the wrong way round to a Nikon user so it can be confusing picking one up. Of course any new camera takes getting used to and a period of learning. I know that I barely use my LX100 to it`s maximum potential as it enthuses me so little that I have failed to look into an online manual and use stuiff like shots drawn for a 4k video and the like which it does.

Apologies if I put eysha off. I know cameras differ; when I started to use my Sony bridge again, after almost two years, it took some getting used to. Things were quite different, but the basics are the same, and it took me no more than half a day, if that.

[ABERS]

Don't  most cameras have the same facilities, but with the relevant buttons in different positions on the body or menus  perhaps named differently?

As long as you know how to use the three interlinked variables surely it is simple to acquaint  yourself where the appropriate  buttons are.

There are a host of facilities that are available in today's cameras, 90% of which are never used, well not by me. So don't  be bemused, just find out where the basics are and plough on.

[jinky]

Don't  most cameras have the same facilities, but with the relevant buttons in different positions on the body or menus  perhaps named differently?

As long as you know how to use the three interlinked variables surely it is simple to acquaint  yourself where the appropriate  buttons are.

There are a host of facilities that are available in today's cameras, 90% of which are never used, well not by me. So don't  be bemused, just find out where the basics are and plough on.

Yes I`m the same hence my LX100 comments re underusing what it has. I know when I pick up a canon the simple thing of zooing the rong with with a zoom lens throws me first of. Yes the basic 3 variables are always the crux of it but it`s amazing how many modern cameras make manual control of those variables ever more complex and hidden away in menu buttons.

[eysha]

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy  Thanks Jinky, I remember you too and several others. I met Digi Diva here and we are still in contact. probably won't post anything now though.

I thought this was a place to come back to to get advice since it was two years ago (2014)  that I bought the Nikon D40 which Reinardina apparently remembers. I didn't keep it long at all and didn't get another DSLR until a couple of weeks ago and it is quite different to my little Panny camera but as R said (quote) ' Mr Google is always so very helpful'. Thanks R, perhaps you are right, I will go and see.
Thanks for the warm welcome back R, as prickly as ever, lol.
Best wishes to all.
E. 

[jinky]

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy  Thanks Jinky, I remember you too and several others. I met Digi Diva here and we are still in contact. probably won't post anything now though.

I thought this was a place to come back to to get advice since it was two years ago (2014)  that I bought the Nikon D40 which Reinardina apparently remembers. I didn't keep it long at all and didn't get another DSLR until a couple of weeks ago and it is quite different to my little Panny camera but as R said (quote) ' Mr Google is always so very helpful'. Thanks R, perhaps you are right, I will go and see.
Thanks for the warm welcome back R, as prickly as ever, lol.
Best wishes to all.
E.

And so we lose another potential user thinking about returning. Seems like anyone new trying to get in here over the last couple of years vanishes as quickly as they drop in due to a careless comment. I know that we often don`t mean it the way we write it as I`ve done it myself on more than one occasion in an email or a post but we need to be more encouraging or accept that this place will be no more than some sort of private sanctuary for a handful of regulars.

If you`re looking in in interest to see responses to your post Eysha I`m happy to offer whatever pearls I am capable of if you message me. I`m useless re: physical aspects of a Canon and cannot understand why they mount their zooms the wrong way round ( ) but happy to pass on / answer any general stuff I can.

[Mick]

I remember you Eysha. You`ll have to show us some pics with your new toy - enjoy  Thanks Jinky, I remember you too and several others. I met Digi Diva here and we are still in contact. probably won't post anything now though.

I thought this was a place to come back to to get advice since it was two years ago (2014)  that I bought the Nikon D40 which Reinardina apparently remembers. I didn't keep it long at all and didn't get another DSLR until a couple of weeks ago and it is quite different to my little Panny camera but as R said (quote) ' Mr Google is always so very helpful'. Thanks R, perhaps you are right, I will go and see.
Thanks for the warm welcome back R, as prickly as ever, lol.
Best wishes to all.
E.

And so we lose another potential user thinking about returning. Seems like anyone new trying to get in here over the last couple of years vanishes as quickly as they drop in due tio a careless comment. I know that we often don`t mean it the way we wruite it as I`ve doen it myself on more than one occasion in an email or a post but we need to be more encouraging or accept that this place will be no more than some sort of private sanctuary for a handful of regulars.

If you`re looking in in interest to see responses to your post Eysha I`m happy to offer whatever pearls I am capable of if you message me. I`m useless re: physical aspects of a Canon and cannot understand why they mount their zooms the wrong way round ( ) but happy to pass on / answer any general stuff I can.

Pretty sure we need to do a bit of a restructure here in the forum.  It would be nice if we could encourage new photographers and offer help and advice where possible, in fact that is how it should work.  Maybe we need to add or edit some of the boards to suite this better. (suggestions welcome). http://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?board=2.0

@eysha Please take it from me you're as welcome to come here and ask questions whether they be beginner to advanced, I'm sure someone will offer some help.  Please don't be put off so easily and hang in here, I'm sure none of the comments were intentionally "prickly".