I think that every salesperson that has worked in a specialty camera shop has had the problem of trying to explain that no, it wasn't the camera but the user.
Many people find it really difficult to admit they have done something wrong...
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"Blame the camera"
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Many people find it really difficult to admit they have done something wrong...
I have a Nikon Coolpix A, which has quite a slow contrast autofocus, and it also does not have a viewfinder. I always think I would love to have a the same camera with a faster AF and a viewfinder.
However, when I look through the pictures I took with it, there are many wonderful pictures even with persons in movement with the AF spot on, so I guess the key is to get used to your limitations of your camera and find a way to live with them, it gets you nicer pictures than always changing the camera and never being fully familiar with it.
However, when I look through the pictures I took with it, there are many wonderful pictures even with persons in movement with the AF spot on, so I guess the key is to get used to your limitations of your camera and find a way to live with them, it gets you nicer pictures than always changing the camera and never being fully familiar with it.
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Richard Frederick
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That is why I don't blame politicians.
JohnSil
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WHY would you blame a politician? Politicians don't put themselves there by themselves.., YOU put them there, you're the one to blame!!! LoL
John
jiberlin
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Sadly, this is not how politics work. As citizen, i have only a very limited choice that is given to me by the politic establishment. At least in germany, we only have a choice about the coarse direction, but not single persons. In germany we have a saying: "At election, you give your voice, and do not get it back (before the next election)."
Cherry_F
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Excellent.
Another one I love: "democracy is the right to vote for someone you didn't choose".
In a way, it's the same for many items. For instance, we have the right to choose from a number of different cameras, but we know we won't be 100% satisfied, there's always something we would like different. For example, the exposure compensation is too stiff, the menu organisation is awkward, etc.
To see the problem with democracy , spend some time on Face Book and see how many believe in the Flat Earth, ghosts, ancient forgotten civilisations, aliens visiting earth (to do anal probing and buid pyramids...) past lives, giants here on earth and are taken in by so many fake photos ...
those people vote.
those people vote.
Cherry_F
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Correct. In addition, many of them use smartphones and post selfies.
If I snap a duck on my local pond using a bird detecting "AI" mode, is the camera to blame when it focuses on the reeds and water ripples rather than the subject? Or is it all my fault for trusting a fancy new feature to work reliably, rather than placing the focus point myself?
Depends on which bird mode you used; in flight, on a branch or on a body of water. Did you then go into the sub-menu and select waterfowl? If it focused on the reeds without further input look at the photo closely, it may have focused on a bittern hiding in the reeds.
tbcass
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That's a good question. I blame the user for not using the camera to its full capability. Fullist capability means knowing when to use fancy features and when not to.
JohnSil
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You don't REALLY believe those things aren't real...., do you?!? If you do not support those proven realities I'm gonna dispatch my snail to deliver you a death threat! I just hope my snail gets there before you die of some weird thing....., like natural causes!?! LoL
John
Richard Frederick
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Please read my post. That is what I said.
Fogel70
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I can not see how the camera can be blamed for it. It is either the user that do not use the function correctly, or it may be the designers of the camera that did a poor job designing it.
Richard Frederick
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Have any of you considered that today's society is not capable of competently governing itself?
Natural causes ???
I don't think so, that is how they get rid of us and no one is doing anything about it !
JohnSil
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Wingsfan
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But, if you blame yourself, you don't have any excuse to go out and buy more gear....
By that standard I don't really see how anyone could ever blame the camera for anything. Even if it's faulty and doesn't work at all, that can be blamed on the manufacturer's poor job of making it.
I think when people do assign blame, any design issues are tacitly considered part of the camera, regardless of the human designers ultimately being the root cause.
Some of the new features on modern cameras are so automatic that there isn't much the user can do. For example, after you've turned on bird detection and pointed the camera at a bird, the rest is down to the camera's processor and algorithms. What the user does need to do is figure out when all that clever automation is likely to fall over and is best turned off.
In some cases I would assign at least a smidgen of blame to marketing hype, especially from overexcited fans. There's a tendency to gush about "game changing" new features and demonstrate best case scenarios that make them look amazing. It then takes trial and error to figure out where real world limitations meet unrealistic expectations.
Fogel70
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Yep, sooner or later they will flip the flat earth on its side, and everyone will fall off.
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