Stop being a Poser...

[FlyingPete]

I was told the above the other day when I was shooting. I asked them why and they said I should turn off the shutter sound on my 20D as I was being a show off :rolleyes:

We have compact digicams with fake shutter sounds to thank for that one!

[cactusclay]

I must have missed that in the book. How do you turn it off?

[FlyingPete]

I must have missed that in the book. How do you turn it off?

Power switch, and don't touch the shutter button :D

[cmM]

haha
that's funny.

[RJSorensen]

I wish my 20D could/would shoot in 'silent' mode . . . I do miss that.

[Eric DeCastro]

just flip some switches and continue to shoot, if they still insist, just say, what shutter sound?

[aam1234]

Put it on AI Servo & jpeg....by the time you are on frame 43, they've already got used to the sound.

[jaypie77]

Who/what kind of people told you that?

[Cadwell]

Other common comments...

"does it take video?" and "how many megapixels, mister?". :rolleyes:

[kb244]

Other common comments...

"does it take video?" and "how many megapixels, mister?". :rolleyes:


I get that alot, they're like my rebel not that good of a camera because it cant take video, or that its crap because you cannot see the image before you shoot it.

[tim]

What'd you say to him Pete?

[Hatem Eldoronki]

A couple of my co-workers at my main job today were completely astonished at my 1Ds2's lack of:
1-Shooting video
2-A lens that comes with it
3-EVF
4-Built-in flash
5-Automatic mode.

[JK]

If you shoot with a 20D in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound ? :)

[RockOne]

I find it amazing how many people are sold on the gimmicks like video mode and digital zoom :-). I have an A75 but didn't buy it for either of these features, although I have used the movie mode a few times. Digital zoom I can do in photoshop if I want, which I don't :-) !

As to the noise, tell them you haven't got your hearing aid turned on, so need it loud :-) :-). Personally I like the shutter noise, it lets me know that I've taken the picture. I'd actually start to worry if I didn't hear it.

[Longwatcher]

I am really glad that at my day job I work around a bunch of people who work with imaging sensors. They don't ask does it do video or why doesn't it come with a lens and some of them even understand that to get the best quality I have to enhance the image from a raw file first. Of course a few of them remember the days of light tables and film reels.

But I have overheard those in other places. At least 16+ MP still impresses people. 8) :) 8)

[tim]

Forget the gear, it's just a means to an end - show them the pictures you've taken with it!

[pcasciola]

Other common comments...

"does it take video?" and "how many megapixels, mister?". :rolleyes: YES!!! I got a couple of comments about it not taking video and then a look like, "Oh, how old fashioned"!!!

[tim]

You could explain why it doesn't take video, either the correct version or the short version (ie "image quality").

[FlyingPete]

What'd you say to him Pete?

I told him it was a real camera, real cameras make that sound!

[blackviolet]

when i was shooting the skateboard comp earlier this month, a guy with a coolpix p&s said 'dude, you should join the digital revolution. digital cameras are not expensive anymore'... i showed him some of the shots (http://www.pbase.com/iagrafx/sk8rs) i had taken, and he said 'oh...' :o then he asked me 'well why the hell do you have to use a flash in the daylight?'


aiyah!

[FlyingPete]

I find it amazing how many people are sold on the gimmicks like video mode and digital zoom :-). I have an A75 but didn't buy it for either of these features, although I have used the movie mode a few times. Digital zoom I can do in photoshop if I want, which I don't :-) !

Yep get the movie one as well, and the preview one...

As to the noise, tell them you haven't got your hearing aid turned on, so need it loud :-) :-). Personally I like the shutter noise, it lets me know that I've taken the picture. I'd actually start to worry if I didn't hear it.

That one is a little hard to fly comming from someone in their 30's :D

[charlesu]

LOL

Yeah, everyone thinks it is about the MP. I had someone try and tell me in a camera store that they would never consider a Canon 1D because such and such camera made such better images. I looked kind of stunned because there was NO comparison. He then went on to tell me that 4MP from the 1D could not compare to the higher pixel count of the amateur camera. I just smiled and said that I had heard that there were other factors that might make a difference.

Back in the film days I used to get this all the time.

I'm out shooting and someone is clearly watching me. Sometimes they have a 35mm camera. Sometimes they don't. Eventually they work their way over. Finally the come up to me. At the last second they turn away and mutter "Oh, I thought you had a Nikon". The first couple of times that happened I got a little preturbed. Then I found out that it happened to a LOT of Canon shooters.

[FlyingPete]

I'm out shooting and someone is clearly watching me. Sometimes they have a 35mm camera. Sometimes they don't. Eventually they work their way over. Finally the come up to me. At the last second they turn away and mutter "Oh, I thought you had a Nikon". The first couple of times that happened I got a little preturbed. Then I found out that it happened to a LOT of Canon shooters.

Yes I make sure to compliment fellow Canon users :cool:

I was shooting some trees in a particulary scenic part of town a month ago, at least two other Canon shooters turned up, armed to the teeth with L glass, not a single Nikon shooter in sight - nice!

[aam1234]

I told him it was a real camera, real cameras make that sound!

Ha ha, That's the best line!

[Hogster]

People have said that to me while I'm setting on one of my Harley's. I just say that if I can't hear the engine then I'm out of gass!

Keep shooting your 20D, that's what I do.

[blackviolet]

charlesu - if you were out shooting, i'm guessing the last thing on their minds in your camera ;) mate, it's an excuse just to come over to get a better look at your subject matter :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

The only time I got stuck in one of these conversations was when I had CharlesU's 1D (yes,. Charles') and some joker had gotten the brand new 8MP Sony.....

First he was all drooling over the 1D,.. had never seen such a brutish digital..

then the inevitable "How many pixles does it have?"

When I told him 4,.. he was very pleased with himself for haveing a better camera. ;)

I just said,. "yeah.. but I need this old one so i can put my lenses on it. Sony doesn't make one that my lenses will fit" :lol: :lol:

It must be that particular camera Charles, it just seems to attract that kind of attention :)

[FlyingPete]

When I told him 4,.. he was very pleased with himself for haveing a better camera. ;)


A come back that might throw them in this situation (as soon as someone knows it is a digital camera they want to know how many MP is has) MP doesn't count as it uses a different type of pixels from a compact digicam (actually true CMOS vs CCD), and you can't actually compare them apples with apples.

Haven't had that issue yet, 8.2MP seems to be over the 'wow' threshold of most people :cool:

[ShutteringFocus]

Yeah, I had a guy ask me if my 70-200 2.8 came with my D30. He said,

"Wow, did that lens come with that camera?"

I said, "What lens?"

Then he laughed and pulled the Mk II from behind his back with the biggest white telephone pole I have ever seen in real life...I think he was mocking my Sigma 70-200... ;-)

Actually I knew that guy, he's a pro who shoots at the school sporting events that I shoot at. It was my first day out with my new Sigma lens and he knew that I had just bought it. I love photographers...they are the best people ever!

[Alexia]

A come back that might throw them in this situation (as soon as someone knows it is a digital camera they want to know how many MP is has) MP doesn't count as it uses a different type of pixels from a compact digicam (actually true CMOS vs CCD), and you can't actually compare them apples with apples.

Haven't had that issue yet, 8.2MP seems to be over the 'wow' threshold of most people :cool:
I still think 1mp is large! :lol: 6.3mp on my new 300D is freaking AMAZING!

Now only if FedEx would drive faster I could start looking like a poser. :p

[FlyingPete]

Now only if FedEx would drive faster I could start looking like a poser. :p

You waiting for some new toys, must be some white glass!

[Alexia]

You waiting for some new toys, must be some white glass!
Yep. :)
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=54377

[MarkH]

I've had my 10D for over 18 months and have taken over 14 000 photos, so I'm starting to get comfortable with it. After the first few shots at a location I stop chimping, I sometimes take hundreds of shots without reviewing the images. The most common thing I get is people thinking that I'm shooting with film! Honestly, who would do that these days?

But to many people D-SLRs are not something that they have come across (or at least recognised). The sub $500 digicams are what most people think of when it comes to modern cameras.

I'll have to remember the next time someone realises that I am shooting digital and asks what megapixels my camera has, to say: "It's six megapixels, but they are a different type of megapixels to what the small cameras have, so it's better than the 8MPix compact cameras"

[Mchu86]

"It's six megapixels, but they are a different type of megapixels to what the small cameras have, so it's better than the 8MPix compact cameras"

hahaha..!! That's good! :)

[Eric DeCastro]

i must have a prototype, my 10D can take video. strange. jk

[tim]

i must have a prototype, my 10D can take video. strange. jk

At 3 frames per second? ;)

[kb244]

At 3 frames per second? ;)

Yeppers, Incredible, it can take videos at nearly 6 times the quality of HDTV ({fine prints}@ 3 frames per second{/fineprints})

[pierrot]

Now that phones can take pictures, I realized that I'm missing a phone in my 20D :mrgreen:

[FlyingPete]

"It's six megapixels, but they are a different type of megapixels to what the small cameras have, so it's better than the 8MPix compact cameras"

Exactly!

[Redbird_xo]

Now that phones can take pictures, I realized that I'm missing a phone in my 20D :mrgreen:
In the future, a digital camera might even spit out breakfast for ya...:evil:

[Persian-Rice]

In the future, a digital camera might even spit out breakfast for ya...:evil:
and do your laundry too.......................

I am mostly asked to take pictures for them or am asked about a future camera purchase. Never anything that stupid.

[Jim Larson]

Yeah -try explaining why you have two flashes from your camera (when you do a Flash Exposure Lock).

Of course, pulling out the second flash unit usually shuts people up :)

Although. . last summer I came across a whole bunch of toursist photographing some elk at the side of the road. Since I was also a tourist (not to mention the road being blocked by gawking tourists), I took out my 70-200/4L and people politely moved out of the way so I could take my shot.

[Redbird_xo]

...I took out my 70-200/4L and people politely moved out of the way so I could take my shot.
It must have been, as they call it, the white power (or beige to be exact)!:lol:

[Hatem Eldoronki]

I took out my 70-200/4L and people politely moved out of the way so I could take my shot.
That's the best line so far!! :lol:

[Mike Panic]

when friends of mine pick up my 10d they are astonished that they can't use the lcd on the back to compose the photograph and baffled that they actually have to put it up to their faces to take a shot

[Alexia]

when friends of mine pick up my 10d they are astonished that they can't use the lcd on the back to compose the photograph and baffled that they actually have to put it up to their faces to take a shot
People don't understand when I get pissy with them when try to compose a shot in the LCD. *sighs*

(I should note, my best friend who recently bought a 300D, his previous Sony didn't have a view finder.)

[FlyingPete]

when friends of mine pick up my 10d they are astonished that they can't use the lcd on the back to compose the photograph and baffled that they actually have to put it up to their faces to take a shot

Real cameras make cool mechanical noises when you depress the shutter and don't have live preview LCD screens :p

Do people actually forget that quickly, digicams have only really been mainstream for three years! They have been around longer, but hadn't really caught on yet.

Tell them to try and use their Live Preview screen in the middle of a sunny day.

(OK I own a camera with a live preview screen, it is a real camera too!)

[AzzKicker]

Just tell them if they wann have a competition of who can take the most Images in under 10 Seconds :)

[Jim Larson]

Despite not having a LCD preview, people begin to realize what I have in my hand when I can bang off 2 or 3 FLASH shots using multiple slave units faster than they can say "hey, what?"

[Ogrt48]

I get that alot, they're like my rebel not that good of a camera because it cant take video, or that its crap because you cannot see the image before you shoot it.


I hate when people say that, I just tell them, " Nah, its a camera, not a toy."