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Flake
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Please forgive this rant but there are times when I find instruction manuals so annoying! I understand there needs to be a section of 'get out' sentences for the terminally stupid for legal reasons, but this time I think that Canon believes the 5D MkIII will be bought by the mentally deficient.
Page 36
On turns the camera on !
'Off' turns the camera off & it will not operate! (How many people would expect it to continue working after it's switched off?) There's even a diagram of how to turn it on & off.
Page 39
A whole page dedicated to how to change a lens. What are people doing buying a camera like this if they don't even know how to change a lens??
Page 40
An entire page about how to zoom a lens! and how to then detach it again (Obviously they're too dim to reverse the attachment instructions)
Page 41
How to attach a lens hood ! (for goodness sake if you can't work this out you shouldn't be allowed out alone!)
Page 42
The image stabiliser a whole page which basically amounts to turn it on & take a picture!
Page 43
How to hold a camera (because you're obviously not clever enough to work it out)
Page 44
How to press the shutter release (sheesh!)
Sorry for the rant, but this is supposed to be a 'high performance' professional digital camera, it just insults the intelligence of users to tell us these things, and wastes our time having to plough through them.
I'm also not sure you can have an approximately 100% viewfinder, it's either 100% or it isn't (approximately 99% perhaps).
Health & safety are incredibly important issues for photographers, cabling & electrics in studios are risks to be aware of, and outdoors there are far too many Utube clips of photographers walking backwards to compose shots, and falling down flights of stairs, or into water features, all things we should all be aware of, but the level of these instructions are frankly insulting.
Rant over - smite away!
Page 36
On turns the camera on !
'Off' turns the camera off & it will not operate! (How many people would expect it to continue working after it's switched off?) There's even a diagram of how to turn it on & off.
Page 39
A whole page dedicated to how to change a lens. What are people doing buying a camera like this if they don't even know how to change a lens??
Page 40
An entire page about how to zoom a lens! and how to then detach it again (Obviously they're too dim to reverse the attachment instructions)
Page 41
How to attach a lens hood ! (for goodness sake if you can't work this out you shouldn't be allowed out alone!)
Page 42
The image stabiliser a whole page which basically amounts to turn it on & take a picture!
Page 43
How to hold a camera (because you're obviously not clever enough to work it out)
Page 44
How to press the shutter release (sheesh!)
Sorry for the rant, but this is supposed to be a 'high performance' professional digital camera, it just insults the intelligence of users to tell us these things, and wastes our time having to plough through them.
I'm also not sure you can have an approximately 100% viewfinder, it's either 100% or it isn't (approximately 99% perhaps).
Health & safety are incredibly important issues for photographers, cabling & electrics in studios are risks to be aware of, and outdoors there are far too many Utube clips of photographers walking backwards to compose shots, and falling down flights of stairs, or into water features, all things we should all be aware of, but the level of these instructions are frankly insulting.
Rant over - smite away!