Hey, if you're going to beat me up you should at least read the specs
first. Yes, it does use SD cards in all their incarnations but it also
uses (because Sony can't admit they were wrong) Memory Stick Pro Duo.
<http://www.dpreview.com/previews/sonynex5/page2.asp>
And I didn't consider that I was being impolite, just letting you all
know how it is for many others who have no idea what the technology
demands really are. Those folks are good friends and also attend the
photography class I started up not too long before I left. I hope I can
eventually teach them what they need to know or else do it for them if I
can't. The wife teaches us how to navigate the social obligations of
our new community and many other practical things about life there. The
man also has much to teach me. He was wounded at Anzio and recuperated
in England just in time to join the D-Day invasion. He was also a
railroad engineer most of his later life extending from steam to
diesels. All fascinating stuff. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> For a start it uses an SD card - now whose lagging being the marching
> band, hey? Do try and keep up! :-)
> Never assume - there's a real possibility that those folks across the
> street were really smart at something that's a complete mystery to you
> and could look down on you from the heights of another mountain. It
> could be azaleas, bee-keeping, Ford diffs or some equally arcane set
> of knowledge. I'm pretty good on digital cameras, although my innate
> ability for BS does help, but if my mobile (cell) fone misbehaves, I
> hand it off to the nearest teenage girl to fix the settings. Saves so
> much time.
> The list of things that I'm really, really dumb at (not just a bit
> ignorant - really seriously dumb) is much longer than the list of
> things I know about. And I'm generally regarded by people around me a
> fairly intelligent (not my assessment and I don't really agree).
> As Socrates said, 'the only thing I know for certain is that I don't
> really know anything' and while that's a more subtle statement than it
> seems, I'm with the ugly bloke in the grubby cloak.
> Now go and stand in the corner until you learn to be polite.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> P.S. On the other hand I'm just reading a book entitled 'Ten questions
> that science can't answer - Yet'. While it discusses such things as
> the nature of time, the idea of self awarenerss and the like, one
> chapter is entitled, "What shall we do with the stupid?" As the
> author points out, below an IQ of 70, the state looks after you but
> between 70-85, you are going to have trouble with literacy, computers,
> making change and digital cameras. The jobs that they used to do are
> closed and they are mostly unemployable. It's 10-15% of the population
> and welfarist nations like mine encourage them to breed - more
> enlightened nations like the US do not. Some TV programmes like Big
> Brother allow them to entertain us - we find them mildly amusing in a
> cruel sort of way, at arms length as the post below demonstrates. So
> what now - eat them?
> The views expressed above do not necessarily reflect those of the
> writer - apart from the bit about eating them of course. Sausages I
> think.
>
>
>
>
> On 22/05/2010, at 12:14 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Silly. Don't you know you're supposed to buy a new Sony Memory Stick
>> Pro Duo when the old one fills up?
>>
>> Some folks that live across the street from me in my Florida place
>> asked
>> me what to do with their digital camera now that the memory card had
>> been filled up. Seems they had the camera for about a year and the
>> card
>> finally got filled up. They had never printed anything but just
>> looked
>> at the pictures on the camera's screen. They had also bought a
>> digital
>> picture frame and someone helped them load a bunch of pics from the
>> camera onto the digital frame. But they really had no idea how to use
>> it and couldn't figure out how to change the display order. They were
>> quite disheartened to learn that their inexpensive digital frame had
>> no
>> such intelligence. Then I left to come back to New York. I'm sure
>> they're still quite baffled as to what to do. Buying a computer (or
>> even using one) is out of the question. Some folks were much better
>> off
>> with film. :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>> Yes, that's about it. Got an NEX5 in my hand now with the 16mm -
>>> managed to borrow a pre-production unit for the weekend on the
>>> proviso
>>> that I didn't use it to assess image quality. . They did have a
>>> couple
>>> of production copies but they were committed.
>>> It is VERY much a compact P&S with on-screen guides (which intrude)
>>> and very few buttons. Two of the buttons are unlabelled - their
>>> function changes and the label is on the screen next to them, like an
>>> ATM. The 16mm seems larger than it needs to be, especially as it has
>>> no stabiliser.
>>> The thing that best exemplifies the comment below is the 'background
>>> defocus' control (one dial, matching curved scale on screen). No
>>> mention of aperture - just rack the background into blur. Oh, and I
>>> CANNOT find the 'format' command anywhere!
>>> Andrew Fildes
>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22/05/2010, at 4:29 AM, Moose wrote:
>>>
>>>> From TOP today:
>>>>
>>>> "You really cannot go in depth about a camera if you had it in your
>>>> hands for only a couple of hours, but you can tell what it is about.
>>>> And
>>>> Sony NEX cameras are all about consumer photography. I know that
>>>> some
>>>> might consider that term an oxymoron, but we are talking about the
>>>> kind
>>>> of photography that doesn't really care about capturing the perfect
>>>> composition, that doesn't really care about technique, and even less
>>>> about the intricate technical details of cameras. The people who
>>>> commit
>>>> consumer photography care about capturing the emotional content of
>>>> their
>>>> lives—the easier they can do that, the better.
>>>>
>>>> More here.
>>>> <http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/05/sony-nex5-hands-on.html
>>>> Moose
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