Sometimes it's Just Really Sad to Watch People with P&S Cameras

Tonight I was at an orchestra performance at my daughter's high school.
I took a bunch of photographs of the orchestra, including some close ups
of my daughter with the 300mm telephoto. Sitting in front of me was a
man with a small Canon P&S camera. He was zooming in as close as he
could holding the camera far out in front of him because it had no
viewfinder. I could see every photo he took on the LCD, and it was just
a bunch of dark, with the faces unrecognizable. We were far too far back
for his tiny flash to have any effect at all, but the stage was well lit.

I found that I got better results using manual focus, something that's
rarely necessary. I also found another good feature of the SLR, it makes
a very good monocular!

I'm guessing this might be a good thread to mark as ignored.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:41:19 -0800, Paul Furman
wrote in :

I'm guessing this might be a good thread to mark as ignored.

I think that's right.

"Move along folks, nothing here to see."
--
Best regards,
John
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