Re: A star in the making...

[David Oswald]

Well, I handed my *ist-Ds off to a woman the other day to take a picture 
of my wife and I.  I'm always uncomfortable doing this, but in this case 
it worked out fine, after we coached her on the same issue.  She was 
trying to look at its display screen instead of through the viewfinder.

It seems to me this trend toward view screen shooting (as opposed to 
looking through a viewfinder) must in some way affect the outcome of the 
shot.  Just as top-view cameras encourage shooting from waist height, 
view-screen shots probably take on a characteristic of their own too, 
though probably less noticable.


mike wilson wrote:
So I'm in Jessops looking at their list of film scanners and other bits 
and bobs and there's a person buying a Canon 20D at the counter.  The 
salesperson goes through all the spiel, puts a lens on, powers it up and 
hands it over.

The person holds it at arm's length, points it at a companion, looks at 
the LCD at the back and says "This one's nacked" (= broken)

Is it just Canon buyers?  8-)))
mike