Maybe most people on here....or not?

pete4130

Clueless.... we all know it when we see it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LApO_BDRE8M#!

smash

Got a laugh out of that

DaireQuinlan

I's funny. Though promoted by (and presumably commissioned or created by) Sony, they probably have an agenda here :-D

pete4130

The agenda here with Sony in Aus is to get people who "want" or feel the "need" to get a DLSR, to buy one of there other, easier to use cameras, where they don't need to worry about all the manual and "pro" settings and buy a simple, easy to use camera.

It still holds a lot of truth, especially with some of the "professional" fauxtographers that feel equipment/gadgets/gizmos/lightstands/brollys/battery grips are needed to feel like a "professional"

but still ask for simple advice on here!?!?!

Effects

pete4130 wrote: »

It still holds a lot of truth, especially with some of the "professional" fauxtographers that feel battery grips are needed to feel like a "professional"

How else can you shoot portait orientation though? I've tried and it doesn't work.

sineadw

Effects wrote: »

How else can you shoot portait orientation though? I've tried and it doesn't work.

I usually turn my camera sideways

DaireQuinlan

pete4130 wrote: »

The agenda here with Sony in Aus is to get people who "want" or feel the "need" to get a DLSR, to buy one of there other, easier to use cameras, where they don't need to worry about all the manual and "pro" settings and buy a simple, easy to use camera.

Yes, I figured that bit out all right I just never really warm to these things when they're slick con jobs created by some huge international conglomerate with the sole purpose of trying to steal market share from some other huge international conglomerates.

Besides, they may be barking up the wrong tree here. What one of those people is going to watch this video and have a sudden epiphany ... THAT'S ME ! OMG ! I'd better SELL ALL MY DSLR VIDEO GEAR AND GET A NEX

magicbastarder

just ask your subject to lie on the ground and rotate the picture in photoshop to suit.

Effects

sineadw wrote: »

I usually turn my camera sideways

But then the shutter button is in the wrong place.

sineadw

Effects wrote: »

But then the shutter button is in the wrong place.

I'm currently exhausted and therefore trying to detect if you're messing or not if you are, hah. If you're not, huh?

Ben D Bus

Effects wrote: »

But then the shutter button is in the wrong place.

You need to move your shutter finger correspondingly. Took me ages to work that out.

sineadw

I think I need to go back to bed

Effects

sineadw wrote: »

I'm currently exhausted and therefore trying to detect if you're messing or not if you are, hah. If you're not, huh?

Yeah, I am. I have a battery grip for my 5D but rarely use it. I also went and bought a standard grip for my Eos 1Vhs so it would be 2kg lighter and easier to carry around and use.

I find gear nuts will go out of their way to justify crap that they buy.

CabanSail

Effects wrote: »

How else can you shoot portait orientation though? I've tried and it doesn't work.

sineadw wrote: »

I usually turn my camera sideways

Then the camera is still in Landscape but now pointing in the wrong direction.

Effects wrote: »

But then the shutter button is in the wrong place.

No!!! The shutter button is still exactly where it was before. You just have your head finger in the wrong space.

There is no spoon Shutter.
Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon Shutter that bends moves, it is only yourself.

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ScumLord

The inbuilt flash one hit home for me, it kept popping up and insisting on scanning the scene despite me turning it off.

DaireQuinlan

Latest update.

Company which has failed at selling DSLRs and has vested interest in persuading people to buy compacts in research-proves-most-dslr-users-just-use-their-dslrs-like-compacts-anyway shocker

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/20/survey-majority-of-dslr-shooters-use-their-cameras-as-point-and-shoots/

dirtyghettokid

LAWL. i'll sell my 5d so