Handing a camera w/BBF to another person to take a picture
Jan 3, 2019 07:07:39 #
Jan 3, 2019 07:10:02 #
cameraf4 wrote:
"Hand my camera to another person????" Bite your tongue.
(I know of what you speak...)
Jan 3, 2019 07:14:23 #
You have a VERY good point there. Give some schmuck a 2 thousand dollar camera with a 1500. dollar lens on it??? Hell no.
cameraf4 wrote:
"Hand my camera to another person????" Bite your tongue.
Jan 3, 2019 07:19:29 #
I hope you aren't expecting some schlub you hand your camera to to suddenly give you an Ansel Adams quality shot. Tell him this button focuses and this button shoots. The rest is pot luck. And then PRAY he doesn't run off with the damn thing. LOL
Longshadow wrote:
What about the guy/gal you hand your camera to at the tourist site, who has an Instamatic.
Jan 3, 2019 07:24:14 #
JD750 wrote:
Clever.
If I hand my camera to somebody, usually that is outdoors in bright light. I set it up first including focus, and choose an f-stop that facilitates wide DOF. However I have found that most people understand if I simply say "focus using this button and shoot by pressing this button".
If I hand my camera to somebody, usually that is outdoors in bright light. I set it up first including focus, and choose an f-stop that facilitates wide DOF. However I have found that most people understand if I simply say "focus using this button and shoot by pressing this button".
Jan 3, 2019 08:01:59 #
foathog wrote:
I hope you aren't expecting some schlub you hand your camera to to suddenly give you an Ansel Adams quality shot. Tell him this button focuses and this button shoots. The rest is pot luck. And then PRAY he doesn't run off with the damn thing. LOL
Not in the slightest.
And not to anyone, referring to mostly friends at gatherings.
I don't do tourist photos with me in them, unless my wife wants to take the photo.
Jan 3, 2019 08:15:06 #
JD750 wrote:
Clever.
If I hand my camera to somebody, usually that is outdoors in bright light. I set it up first including focus, and choose an f-stop that facilitates wide DOF. However I have found that most people understand if I simply say "focus using this button and shoot by pressing this button".
If I hand my camera to somebody, usually that is outdoors in bright light. I set it up first including focus, and choose an f-stop that facilitates wide DOF. However I have found that most people understand if I simply say "focus using this button and shoot by pressing this button".
Fine if you do that or are using multi-point focusing and evaluative metering,
not so well with one point focusing and spot metering.
Jan 3, 2019 08:34:47 #
I am most apt to hand over my not so new 12mp Point and Shoot Camera aka my iPhone 7+ with 128gb memory with full insurance with a $600 replacement cost than $4k camera set up ... even at events where non/member guests offer to take the photo. I will take several views adjusting people, etc. and show the more novice than me volunteer the photos, set up again and then they just need to hold the phone and touch the big white button - sometimes that doesn’t go well and I just submit photos without me in them ... 😉
Jan 3, 2019 08:38:14 #
Mac wrote:
Good idea. I'll check my cameras for the same thing. It's almost impossible to explain BBF.
Yeah, you’re so right. BBF is way too difficult for mere mortals to understand. It’s like trying to explain space exploration to a caveman. Soooo, here’s what I do > ensure the body is in aperture priority and the aperture is set to f/11. Pre-focus before handing the camera to the moron I’ve asked to snap a pic of my wife and I OR just ask said moron to press the AF-On button before the shutter. I don’t need to explain nothin cuz they woodn’t get it no how. Not everyone can be a photographer like us here.
Jan 3, 2019 08:41:24 #
Jan 3, 2019 08:58:15 #
When I describe to my doctor that my shoulder hurts when I raise it to the right and above my neck he says, "Don't do that. It won't hurt."
So do the same - don't hand it to the guy with an Instamatic".
Mark
So do the same - don't hand it to the guy with an Instamatic".
Mark
Longshadow wrote:
What about the guy/gal you hand your camera to at the tourist site, who has an Instamatic.
Jan 3, 2019 09:00:02 #
markngolf wrote:
When I describe to my doctor that my shoulder hurts when I raise it to the right and above my neck he says, "Don't do that. It won't hurt."
So do the same - don't hand it to the guy with an Instamatic".
Mark
So do the same - don't hand it to the guy with an Instamatic".
Mark
Jan 3, 2019 09:35:20 #
I just had that experience. I gave the camera to a guy who nodded and said he understood, took a group picture and it was out of focus. He must have focused on the background.
Jan 3, 2019 09:37:09 #
joderale wrote:
I just had that experience. I gave the camera to a guy who nodded and said he understood, took a group picture and it was out of focus. He must have focused on the background.
Or "pushed" the shutter rather than "press" (squeeze).
Jan 3, 2019 09:54:52 #
Haven't had trouble explaining BBF: " press this button to focus, then this to take the picture" What I have to remember is to explain how to adjust the eyepiece diopter so that things don't look blurry even if they are in focus!
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