At the stroke of midnight…

The Rebel T2i/EOS 550D’s –/+ “dioptric adjustment knob.” One of the middle-aged photographer’s best friends… Now I don’t need my reading glasses — http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-01-30 — to focus! I recall this feature from a previous camera (my late father-in-law’s Nikon N80 film camera) and I remembered that while standing in the middle of a street taking a photo earlier this month. Now I can focus manually without putting my glasses on every time! Such liberation!

Thinking back to when my older daughter talked me into registering at this site nearly three years ago, much of my reasoning was that it would probably force me to better learn how to use my new camera. If I hadn’t shot the thousands of frames I’ve shot up to this point, I probably wouldn’t have been prompted to remember this feature on Dad’s N80 and looked for it here … so thanks again, 365!

One year ago (“Orange + red = autumn.”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-10-23
Two years ago (“The photographer in the KitchenAid”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-10-23

[Rick Schies]

LOL, it is an important piece of the equipment. A friend of mine took a photo for the family a while back, and used my camera. She looked and said, "My God, are you blind?" LOL, I said, I am older than you are, and had to adjust it when she was finished.

[Vicki Dixon]

VERY good!!! just above the eyepiece...actually a great thing to do is mark our gear for real!

[Vicki Dixon]

I need to start being better about marking my photos. When I edit, I don't know yet which one I will post, and I don't want my name on anything I print for myself, so i don't mark them. Then by the time I decide which to post, I don't want to go back and add the watermark before posting. lazy, I guess, but I will start being better about it.

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos At age 3, this camera is *so* beat up! As you can see here, the soft “eyecup” is [long] gone. The soft rubbery pad that is out of the image below-right? Gone. The grip below the shutter release on the front? Reglued several times, torn and coming off again…

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos Your practice is almost exactly what I do, Vicki. If I'm undecided, I "watermark" them, put them in one folder, sometimes even upload them all to 365 and then look at them on the 365 editing page to decide. If one of my daughters wants a print, or Clare has an idea for an image, I usually save them with a filename that tells me what editing I did. This is feasible because I don't do much Photoshop'ing: S = image Size (cropping), A = Auto levels, O = auto cOlor and U = aUto contrast cover probably 98% of all of my saved edits. This image, for example, is just S12x9tm, so all I did was crop it to a 4:3 proportion, resize down to 12x9 and add my name. Reproducing it later without the watermark, if I have to, is then pretty easy.

[Vicki Dixon]

my camera is all beat up too! eyepiece padding is mostly gone, I should go ahead and remove the piece left, but somehow I keep it holding on. I see yours is about as bad as mine as far as dust in the corners too. Well, I think it is a good sign, it shows we love and really use them and use them well!

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos Exactly so, Vicki! When I bought my macro lens and Nikon P&S a couple months ago, I had my camera with me (of course). I commented that it was quite abused, but the salesman said it as you have: we use them and use them often!