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Originally Posted by HarryT
It really annoys me, though. As you may know I'm a keen photographer, and earlier this year I bought a "semi-professional" Nikon DSLR, which is a fiendishly complex device, with literally hundreds of different configuration options. It came with a manual about a quarter the size of the older Nikon I bought about three years ago, despite being a hugely more complex device. How people are supposed to learn to use these things without buying expensive third-party books (which is what I ended up doing) really baffles me.
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But Harry, there is a whole (official) after market for 'How to get the most out of your ____' I have a (dead tree) book for the F4 (I was dreaming
back then). That would Kill a lucrative market.
M$ does it. Oracle does it. Cisco does it...
(Ansel Adams, I am not
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My first SLR was a Pentax (Asahi) Spotmatic. Match needle ttl, Replaced with a Mamiya Secor DTL1000 dual ttl (used all my Pentax lenses).
neither had much of a manual (thickness). You were expected to know how to take pictures with an adjustable camera. The pamphlet covered the location of the controls, basic care
And I have the PDF for my lowly Nikon L14 (how far I have fallen
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