Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:54 am
Aussie Dave wrote:I personally have never used any of the Auto or presets on the D70, only ever used the A, S or M.
I'm nice to my camera and shoot mostly in A, I go easy on the S & M.
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Aussie Dave wrote:I personally have never used any of the Auto or presets on the D70, only ever used the A, S or M.
dooda wrote:If he is afraid of letting someone else profit over his mistake(how would someone else profit over a piece of crap?), then he knows that he has a good camera in his posession, and his actions probably have nothing to do with a D70 or even photography in general. He is willingly punishing himself by not learning it, and he knows that someone else could make it work well and he wants to punish them too. The only justice (albeit a perverted form of justice) is for him to put it in the drawer so that everyone is upset; and he has a constant reminder of the world's cruelty to him.
Perhaps he was hoping that a D70 + gear would magically fill a void in his life without putting forth any effort?
So I think that this fellow is dealing with some things that go much further than simply not learning his camera quickly. There is a wonderful little book called leadership and Self Deception, or another called "The Bonds that make us free" and they talk about people who willingly displace themselves and others because they feel more comfortable with it. Believe it or not almost every person does this to a certain extent, but this fellow's situation is more obvious.
I could be overanalyzing a tad, but a situation like this just begs for it.
thehikingdude wrote:He says that any camera that costs this much money shouldn't need to be fine tuned, it should shoot perfectly right out of the box.
sirhc55 wrote:At least the filing cabinet seems to be working perfectly
sirhc55 wrote:What do you call a person who always blames his tools
MATT wrote:Tell him I'll give him a hundred bucks for it , to get rid of that dirty Nikon stuff.
I'll do him that favour.
MATT
darb wrote:thehikingguide
send him to any number of d70 galleries (mine if you like) and gently remind him he has no friggin idea what he's talking about, and he's the problem
He should know better.thehikingdude wrote:even though he had many years of use with a Nikon F3 under his belt...
Does this mean he now has a computer? Or does he zip down to the internet cafe for such things?thehikingdude wrote: he looks at my web site and used to have lots of nice things to say about them.
the subject line of his email to me was: Possibly the worst camera ever made
-jeff
tasadam wrote:Does this mean he now has a computer? Or does he zip down to the internet cafe for such things?
Greg B wrote:Your mate is fundamentally self destructive with a strong desire to fail, while blaming everything else but himself.
thehikingdude wrote:darb wrote:thehikingguide
send him to any number of d70 galleries (mine if you like) and gently remind him he has no friggin idea what he's talking about, and he's the problem
Sorry Darb, but I checked your crap gallery and your pics are even worse than mine. No way would I have him look at your photos. You just don't get it, digital is pure crap. No D70 has ever taken a decent photo - never has and never will.
Your nighttime camp site photo is easily hands down the worst image and biggest waste of bandwidth I've ever seen in my life. Obvisouly came out of D70.
Nnnnsic wrote:Stay on topic, darb.
nito wrote:I just came across this thread. What a sad sequence of events but I am afraid quite a few people do think that an SLR would wonderously transform their picture. Its hard to make sense to such people.
The D70 is a huge learning curve. I went from a PS to one and nearly suffered a brain embolism. Add a decent flash and it becomes a nightmare. I can honestly say that my shots are slowly getting much better through the help of this forum.
I think it a case of your friend being scared to admitt that he's photography skills are not quite proficent. Rather blame the camera and everything else under the sun than blame my ignorance.
Be a friend and take the camera off him. Then take what you need and sell the rest on the forum so we can all benefit from a person's ignorance.
EDIT: May be the thread should be changed to the D70's bad experiecne with my friend.
- I've got a better idea - tell him to take up FACE painting, and then get whoever he wants a 'photo' of to press their face up to a piece of paper - hey presto = and he won't have a problem.I have suggested that he take-up painting. This would give him full control of the subject focus, depth of field, brightness, contrast, color depth, etc. And he won't even have to turn on his computer.
Dug wrote:Jeff I would be happy to send you a list of what images are film and what are shot on digital to make it fair!
blacknstormy wrote::shock: Dug - what do you mean the camera doesn't take the photo !!!!! LOL
I don't think I've ever laughed this hard reading a post .... and yes, I know someone like this, and that makes it even funnier!!!!!
Jeff, you said- I've got a better idea - tell him to take up FACE painting, and then get whoever he wants a 'photo' of to press their face up to a piece of paper - hey presto = and he won't have a problem.I have suggested that he take-up painting. This would give him full control of the subject focus, depth of field, brightness, contrast, color depth, etc. And he won't even have to turn on his computer.
Rel
Please please keep updating this post - I've laughed so hard I have to go to the loo !!!!!!
blacknstormy wrote::shock: Dug - what do you mean the camera doesn't take the photo !!!!! LOL
thehikingdude wrote:Impressive site. A list would be great. When the timing is right I will set him to task.
-jeff
thehikingdude wrote: He now states that Nikon will be out of business within 10 years.