A disappointed bridemaid . . .

Llamaman said:
Looking at reviews on Amazon, she's not alone in having problems with this camera. It's rocking a 2.5* average - that should be ringing alarm bells.
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Being a web designer, you'd expect her to know her way around `tinterweb a bit & possibly done a bit of homework/check out reviews.
 
OldCarlos said:
Being a web designer, you'd expect her to know her way around `tinterweb a bit & possibly done a bit of homework/check out reviews.
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Ahh...if only common sense was...you know...common. :-)
 
OldCarlos said:
Being a web designer, you'd expect her to know her way around `tinterweb a bit & possibly done a bit of homework/check out reviews.
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She wouldn't have had to search hard either - the reviews on Argos aren't great either.
 
Even if they were sharp, she'd only have downloaded them to her laptop and never made a back up of them, and hence lost them all before long any how.

All those images are user error in one way or another, even if the error is not reading the manual.
 
This reminds me of a post on another forum being dissappointed with the Nikon d810 due to similar results

from wedding photography course....when taking a sequence of shots, always check after taking the first that all is in order eg exposure, focus, composition

In both cases spend an entire trip/vholiday taking several hundreds of pictures Then get home and find all are rubbish

all the gear but no idea
 
Russ77 said:
I agree in essence but she's made enough of a point about it to whine to the National press.

To me this is no different to the stories you get of someone sitting on the roof of their car that's stuck in a ford/river pointing angrily at the sat nav that told them to do it :LOL:
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Or like the truckers coming into town where there is a 14ft railway bridge with a 15ft high truck, the cab and chassis goes under but the body does not
one bemused driver accused the warning signs of being inaccurate
Happens on a regular basis
 
Meh, all you have to do is look at her wedding picture...... nothing but an attention seeker.
 
Perhaps the nose ring interfered with the settings on the camera?
 
kennethwfd said:
This reminds me of a post on another forum being dissappointed with the Nikon d810 due to similar results

from wedding photography course....when taking a sequence of shots, always check after taking the first that all is in order eg exposure, focus, composition

In both cases spend an entire trip/vholiday taking several hundreds of pictures Then get home and find all are rubbish

all the gear but no idea
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What forum?
 
She should have done her research, even a quick look at Amazon gives a large amount of 1 star reviews, you dont even need to go any further than that (a few seconds of research tells you its crap!).

Then when you add user error and a complete lack of understanding with regards to basic photography (fill flash anyone? How did she not see that on the rear screen?!) its a recipe for disaster.

Not worthy of a national news story tghough - "crap photographer buys crap camera and achieves crap photos" shocker!
 
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dejongj said:
Perhaps the nose ring interfered with the settings on the camera?
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Pehaps the camera had a silent feature - hide fugly mode...

Even the 'professional' image is grim to look at, perhaps the compact did their friends a lot of favours by previenting a lot of 'how brilliant our honeymoon was' photo shows happening...
 
What a cupid stunt

this is a non issue, but shows you the quality of 'the press'
 
odd jim said:
She should have done her research, even a quick look at Amazon gives a large amount of 1 star reviews, you dont even need to go any further than that (a few seconds of research tells you its crap!).

Then when you add user error and a complete lack of understanding with regards to basic photography (fill flash anyone? How did she not see that on the rear screen?!) its a recipe for disaster.

Not worthy of a national news story tghough - "crap photographer buys crap camera and achieves crap photos" shocker!
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Disagree with part of that. We may see fill as basic but joe public will not. My wife for example would not know about fill.
 
I'm sure I once had a compact with a 'backlit portrait' scene mode. Surprised it's not more commonplace - maybe 'intelligent auto' these days can spot it.
 
Llamaman said:
I'm sure I once had a compact with a 'backlit portrait' scene mode. Surprised it's not more commonplace - maybe 'intelligent auto' these days can spot it.
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indeed but not on 50 quid bargain basement crap from argos
 
cambsno said:
Disagree with part of that. We may see fill as basic but joe public will not. My wife for example would not know about fill.
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True, but did she not see the picture on the back of the camera? It would very clearly have had underexposed subjects...
 
cambsno said:
Disagree with part of that. We may see fill as basic but joe public will not. My wife for example would not know about fill.
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True, but surely she would have seen there was something wrong with the photo on the display and at least tried a work around? She seemed surprised at the way it came out (and this one in particular I assume as it was used in the article).

...and I bet she didn't read the manual.

Edit - as above :)
 
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