I may have created a monster. About a month ago a gentleman stopped by my house so that I might train him on a computer program (non photography related). He happened to notice my camera sitting there and asked me some questions which I happily answered and in addition showed him some images that I had taken with the camera. I noticed that he was taking notes while I was talking.
Tonight he called me and said that he had bought a new D2H and a couple of lenses and wondered if he might stop by and ask me a couple of questions. I said sure come anytime and 15 minutes later there he was. He had taken delivery about two weeks ago so I thought the questions might be relative to some of the more obscure settings available on this great camera. His first question was "how do you turn the camera on." I knew I was in trouble. We spent three hours while I gave him a tour of his new camera, Nikon View and Nikon Capture (neither of which he has at this time). He is leaving for Italy in two weeks and plans to take thousands of genealogy type pictures of records and parishes in addition to some tourist type images.
My camera happened to have the SB800 mounted on a RRS bracket and again I noticed that he dutifully wrote all of that down and I am sure they will be on order tomorrow. Well at least he has the on/off switch down pretty well and can at least look at his images on the LCD. Of course he didn't know what a histogram was either so we spent a few minutes on that as well. My problem is that he is not exactly a quick study and I hope I haven't ruined his trip to Italy. Where did I go wrong? :shock: :shock:
Tonight he called me and said that he had bought a new D2H and a couple of lenses and wondered if he might stop by and ask me a couple of questions. I said sure come anytime and 15 minutes later there he was. He had taken delivery about two weeks ago so I thought the questions might be relative to some of the more obscure settings available on this great camera. His first question was "how do you turn the camera on." I knew I was in trouble. We spent three hours while I gave him a tour of his new camera, Nikon View and Nikon Capture (neither of which he has at this time). He is leaving for Italy in two weeks and plans to take thousands of genealogy type pictures of records and parishes in addition to some tourist type images.
My camera happened to have the SB800 mounted on a RRS bracket and again I noticed that he dutifully wrote all of that down and I am sure they will be on order tomorrow. Well at least he has the on/off switch down pretty well and can at least look at his images on the LCD. Of course he didn't know what a histogram was either so we spent a few minutes on that as well. My problem is that he is not exactly a quick study and I hope I haven't ruined his trip to Italy. Where did I go wrong? :shock: :shock: