When you first started in photography......

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When you first started in photography, were there any terms which you thought meant one thing but you found out it meant something entirely different?

Come on, don't be embarrassed, please share it with us.........



Noise - I thought it related to the sound the shutter made.....: :eek::eek::cuckoo::cuckoo:

Lisa
 
going back to film which was the first medium i used in 1963 with an agfa karat...

termwise i cant think of anything funny but incident metering wasnt something i got to grips with but can think of the funny interpretation of it.
 
DIN - not only did I not know what it stood for (Deutsches Institut für Normung - German Institute for Standardization), I couldn't figure out how it worked - ASA was easy by comparison...
 
"A" on my trusty old 1979 Minolta XG-1, for a long while I thought it stood for "automatic" :eek:!
 
As a ten year old with my first adjustable camera I had trouble with the relative values of apertures and shutter speeds. I was thrown by a shutter range that went 1/300 1/175 1/100 1/50 1/25 and a lens that had an aperture range that included 7.7 and 6.3 and 9
 
Crazyhorse said:
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Noise - I thought it related to the sound the shutter made.....: :eek::eek::cuckoo::cuckoo:

Lisa
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:plusone:

I don't know if I thought other things were but when I first posted an image and someone told me it looked soft I had no idea what they meant, and as for DOF....

I still don't know what pocket wizards are for - to entertain the crowd whilst you change lenses? :gag:
 
I have distant memories of a spotty youth wanting a 70-210 zoom for aircraft shots with his Zenit-E and waking upon Christmas morning to a 58mm prime :'(.
It was several days moping around before his dad explained that 58mm was the filter size. I can't recall the kid's name now :whistling:

Bob
 
akr said:
I still don't know what pocket wizards are for - to entertain the crowd whilst you change lenses?
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Only if you're David Hobby & Zack Arias ;)
 
not so much to knowing what terms stood for but i couldnt get my flash gun to work .....was on backwards ooops
 
:)Some brilliant replies folks, keep them coming.:thumbs:

Lisa
 
'Multimode' had me flummoxed. But once I read about it, and particularly the Canon A1 I was hooked. Still got that camera too - I feel a film session coming on. :)
 
The words "cheap hobby" spring to mind as in once you've bought a nice setup you can just enjoy it....... £12000 later......
 
I need to say 'Tv' always confused me on Canon dials. I knew it was shutter priority but up until I actually bought myself a Canon dSLR I had no idea it actually stood for 'Time value', Av always sounded like something you'd switch your TV to when watching Sky too... :lol: :lol:
 
spot metering for acne
 
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