Becoming a camera expert

Ash loves his camera and rarely leaves the house without it.  We have photos of holidays, weekends away, days out and lots and lots of the amazing countryside in and around our village.  Village events, family celebrations, walks with the dog, all have been documented and saved first in photo albums then in shoe boxes, then on a computer and, more recently, on an external hard drive permanently attached to his lap top.  Recently the photos have had a tendency to be out of focus, for the colours to be slightly 'off and the sad thing about this is that he often doesn't even notice but just shows them off as being the perfect images he sees in his mind's eye however he's still had the old enthusiasm and every time something interesting happens it's recorded for posterity (or at least until Jake comes to clear things out when we're no longer around).  His camera is a decent one (he really can't get his head around the fact that nowadays you can use a phone for such things) and it comes complete with buttons and dials which until this morning have been a complete mystery to me.  We've had a few problems over the last few months when he's fiddled with a dial and messed up the settings but Jake has always been around to sort it out (he too is a photographer, yet another skill he's learned from his dad) and face has been saved in the nick of time.  This morning however Jake and the 6 year old had just left when Ash went out to take photos of a tree across the road at the end of the village.  He came back full of excitement only to find that when he reviewed the images what he usually saw wasn't there, yes you've guessed it, he'd touched a button or a dial and everything on the viewer was completely different.  This promised to be a crisis of immense proportions; he can't cope with change, he couldn't view the photos properly and neither he nor I had any faith that I could do anything to help.  I went out of the way but could hear sighing, grumbling and certain words that told me all was far from well so went and asked, very diffidently, whether I could have a look.  Ash was obviously desperate as he silently handed the camera over and left me to it.  Now this camera is his pride and joy so I was a little wary of touching anything but there was no one else and no other way so I found the menu button and worked my way carefully down the list taking note of which 'thing' I'd reset and then each time asking him to take a photo so I could check the result.  It took 6 photos but I'm very excited to be able to tell you that I did it.  I managed to reset the camera so the view Ash sees when he's just taken a photo is exactly what he would expect to see and I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of myself that I've managed to tick yet another item off my list of things I never thought I would be able to do.  It really is amazing what's possible when we only have ourselves to rely on.


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Comments

Sarah H said…
You are amazing! Be very proud of yourself . . .
Jane said…
and you are obviously biased but thank you!
Lesley said…
Being a complete technophobe myself I am really impressed - that would have taken more patience than I currently possess but, as you say, it is amazing what you can do when you are pushed!