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I dont get this. I wondered if someone could tell me why.

While at the UTD game last night I couldnt help but notice the hundreads of camera flashes going on in the crowd. Is this really necessary in such a well lit stadium or are they happy snapers thinking its night time so i`ll put my flash on. :thinking:
 
Nope, I saw loads at The Albert Hall a few months ago, and even flashes coming from the cars on the london eye last week at dusk. Always makes me giggle, how far do they think the flash is going to reach? However, I suppose its a case of people with straightforward point and shoot cameras just using auto settings - the cameras meter picks up lower than average light and flicks the flash on.
 
With a title like that I was expecting to see.....


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Yep, point and shoots set on auto. It's depressing really that these people never even think about it. No wonder their pictures are so horrible.
 
LOL anyone see the Concorde flight that went up just to observe Halley's Comet with Patrick Moore doing the commentary and trying to stop people taking flash pictures?

Poor old Patrick went hoarse screaming "Please stop using flash - it's gazillions of miles away!" to no effect whatsoever on the passengers. :D
 
Brilliant!!

My compact camera's great - you have to manually release the pop-up flash if you want to use it.
 
Camera phones are THAT bad at capturing things more than 2 feet away that it isn't even worth taking a picture. I don't know why people bother.

"Hey look ... is that ... yes it is! That's Steven Gerrard, I think" *10 feet away"
 
I went to a Dolly Parton concert back in March :nuts: and the woman next to me was happily taking flash shots on her point and shoot from about 100 metres from the action - I had to laugh thinking about the loads of dark prints she will get once she looks back on the PC at home, and then she'd moan that her camera was a waste of money...
 
JPS said:
I went to a Dolly Parton concert back in March :nuts: and the woman next to me was happily taking flash shots on her point and shoot from about 100 metres from the action - I had to laugh thinking about the loads of dark prints she will get once she looks back on the PC at home, and then she'd moan that her camera was a waste of money...
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Ye it makes me chuckle when I see things like that, I feel like saying do you know you wont get any pics using your flash. Then I think no let them learn the hard way ha ha ha.
 
You see them at zoo's and aquariums pointing the camera at the glass then using the flash so all they give is a load of flash reflection. (I know this works if you have the lens sealed against the glass, I do that occasioanally. Im talking about standing a few metres away and using the flash.)
 
I'm feeling oddly charitable right now so for today, the devil can have an advocate. :lol:

You need to remember that most people with little point and click cameras bought them exactly because they don't want to know anything about photography. They want a little bis they can point at something and have a snap to remember it by. If said little box decides it want to fire the little lighty up bit on top, then that must be what it needs to do..... right?

There's no reason people should know any better.....








.... except perhaps from the endless streams of dark and useless pics. :lol:
 
My favourite ever was when visiting an aunt of mine, a true Royalist, a couple of weeks after Diana's wedding to Charles

She showed me 3 films of pictures of her television :thinking::thinking::thinking:

Seems she'd decided to use her little 110 camera (auto flash only) to snap away as the wedding unfolded onscreen and, to stop reflections from the window, had shut the curtains thereby ensuring the flash fired with every shot

Of course the flash is far brighter than the tele screen, hence 3 full films of her tele! :lol::lol::lol:
 
See those thousands of flashguns at the stadium?
That's how many stupid people there are.
And, amazingly, we allow those same people to vote and drive cars, too . . . !

Scary! :gag:
 
W.Smith said:
See those thousands of flashguns at the stadium?
That's how many stupid people there are.
And, amazingly, we allow those same people to vote and drive cars, too . . . !

Scary! :gag:
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how are they stupid? they just don't know how there camera and photography works, your remark is stupid, unless its sarcasm, then its very sarcastic.
 
JPS said:
I went to a Dolly Parton concert back in March :nuts: and the woman next to me was happily taking flash shots on her point and shoot from about 100 metres from the action - I had to laugh thinking about the loads of dark prints she will get once she looks back on the PC at home, and then she'd moan that her camera was a waste of money...
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No, she'd be pleased with the close ups of Dolly tats from that far away she probably needed to be 200 metres back to get her face in ;)
 
Every time a compact flashes an angel dies. Its a shame that compacts come with a flash and not better ISO handling. But then they do come with a screen so people should look at the back and go "Oh, black" and maybe find out how to fix that.
 
Nooooooooooooo! Poor Clarence. :'(
 
Now if everyone with a P&S would fire off their flash at exactly the same time.........
 
hehe I was at my sisters graduation the other day and it was a fair sized hall, and fairly dark, but there were tons of people flashing away with compacts, I cant see that the flash reached the front, I had my 430 speedlight attached and it just about got a tiny bit of light to the stage. Wish I had taken my IXUS to see if the flash would actually have reached.
 
I just remembered the most recent occasion I saw it happening - longleat week before last. The big cats were all hanging around under trees, and the clouds had come over too, so it was all quite murky, so several cars around us has flashes going off inside on compacts. I was sitting there imaging what the images must look like - big white spots from the flash reflecting off the windows and some nicely highlighted but oof A and B pillars :lol:

As has already been said, I fully understand that people buy them because they dont want to learn about photography, they just want the camera to snap their memories for them, but doesnt the strange reviews on those LCD's make them wonder why they arent getting the picture they wanted? :thinking:
 
When I was at the Royal Albert hall, little point and shoot cameras with flash really annoyed me. For some reason the Royal Albert Hall have a policy of "No cameras!" A bit harsh I though, but I assumed it was so the show wasn't disturbed by loads of flashes going off. As soon as the show startedm everyone got their lottle point and shoot cameras and started firing away giving a nice strobe effect. Wanting to get a couple of pictures to capture the moment I decided to tempt fate and get some shots with my 30mm f1.4, wide open with ISO 800. But one of the staff noticed me and told me off. Surely I was doing no harm at all unlike everyone letting the flashes go off. something that annoyed me even more was several people filming the whole show, with the screen out, holding the camera over their heads. Must have been great for the people behind them who got nothing but an eyefull of screen. Some people are far too inconsiderate.
 
Inconsiderate people are usually also the stupid ones. It's disappointing that they never ask themselves what the flash is for. Of course, if you're taking a picture of Dolly Parton 150m away, then surely the flash firing means the camera thinks the flash will help, and so it'll adjust the aperture/exposure down perhaps lower than it would be otherwise.

Unfortunately they won't be told. Like the breakdown guy who picked me up the other month who refused to listen to my advice because it contradicted his satnav. Needless to say it took an extra hour to get home...
 
W.Smith said:
See those thousands of flashguns at the stadium?
That's how many stupid people there are.
And, amazingly, we allow those same people to vote and drive cars, too . . . !

Scary!
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dsb said:
how are they stupid? they just don't know how there camera and photography works, your remark is stupid, unless its sarcasm, then its very sarcastic.
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FYI, dsb, since you don't seem (to want?) to understand:
If you "just don't know how [your] camera and photography works", but you do it anyway, you're stupid.
 
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