Monday, March 2, 2015

The Blindfold Test!

The blindfold test is if someone put a blindfold on you ( No, this is not fifty shades of grey ) could you operate your camera? Could you turn it on, know where all the buttons are and could you change the settings without looking at your camera? If I said that your camera is in shutter priority and I want you to put it in aperture priority. Do you know which way to turn the dial? Your camera is in aperture priority at f2.8. I ask you to change the aperture to 4.0 still blindfolded! Do you know where the dial is? Do you know which way to move the dial? Do you know how many stops that is? Some of these tasks is very hard to do blindfolded but if you could, think how fast you could be without looking at your camera and always looking at the action. Your reaction time would be so fast. No one would doubt you know your camera. Sometimes you cannot tell the subject that I missed the shot so we need to redo so I can get the shot. Think sports or the Olympics. Sometimes there are no retakes. If you missed it, you missed it. 

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