Be honest, when was the last time......?

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You RTFM?


As one of the least macho things you can do, admitting defeat that you can't work it out etc. When was the
I was flicking through mine checking how to alter something and felt pretty pathetic TBH.

So own up!
 
RTFM?????????? :shrug:
 
Whats a manual :). Honestly I dont think I have ever read a manual for anything until I had tried to work it out and drove myself to the brink of madness.
 
I read/flicked through the manual/booklet for the F1 2010 game I got last Friday, does that count.
Mainly for the button layout.............
 
lol I'm a right geek then I read the ****ing manual for the D700 and the SB900 and then I bought a book on the D700 and read that too.

Perhaps I just like reading ;)
 
i left the manual for 7d in the toilet...
 
lawrie29 said:
Refer To F*****g Manual.

Said with the frustration of a man that has no other choice!
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Ah right gotcha....

First thing i tend to do with all self assembly stuff from a wardrobe to a BBQ is BTFM.......... :lol:

Camera stuff though does make good loo reading stuff, and is generally reasonably absorbent!
 
Lynton said:
Ah right gotcha....

First thing i tend to do with all self assembly stuff from a wardrobe to a BBQ is BTFM.......... :lol:

Camera stuff though does make good loo reading stuff, and is generally reasonably absorbent!
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BTFM = Buy The Fullofgoodness Manual!!!!:shrug: :lol::lol:
 
RTFM? Never heard of that one before, i've also never heard of a manual, what is this strange thing you speak of?
 
I actually like reading the manuals for things, call me a weirdo, but i find it interesting; it also helps you to get the most out of your product. I have had a point and shoot for 5 years... i read the manual once, last week i found something new about it... Lmao.
 
I always do it is this a problem :shrug: :shrug: only get moaned at if I ask silly questions on here, we are all not perfect :bang:
 
Last week I read part of the manual for the 580EXII flash because the week before I'd made a few mistakes all down to my restricted knowledge of how it worked.
 
This lunch time.

I was reading the printed manual that came with a 1970s Canon EF film body I'd bought on eBay.

It's quite enlightening to see the change of style over the years.

There are about five pages explaining the basic operation and controls of the EF and twenty giving you helpful hints for your photography: how to hold the camera in landscape and portrait orientations, slow the shutter to create motion blur accompanied by an impressively dynamic image of a Samurai on horseback, etc..

The manual for my 5D is 180 pages of technical and reference data with nothing about getting creative.

:)
 
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Nick T said:
I always do it - I'm a bit of a geek like that. :)
First thing I do, sit down, read the manual... usually while waiting for the batteries to charge :lol:
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:thumbs:.....then forget everything 30 seconds later.
 
mines still in the plastic it came in, unopened, im bad for never RTFM lol
 
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I always have a play first but I do read the manual when I need to. Often you need to when it is for technical lookup type information.
 
I always do.. It's ingrained from work though - when you have various bits of kit that cost multiples of 10k and don't necessarily interact with each other directly without killing each other you quickly learn to scan the manual for gotchas. Especially since said gotchas are invariably the cases that are both easy to do and void the warranty.
 
I always read it and there are enough queries on here like

"where is the button to do ..... ?" or
"can my camera do ...... ?"

to suggest a few more should read TFM.

Dave
 
hmmm......I cant remember!

tbh I just mess on and if I get stuck its normally a quick google search lol
 
Tringa said:
I always read it,, and there are enough queries on here like

"where is the button to do ..... ?" or
"can my camera do ...... ?"

to suggest a few more should read TFM......Dave
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:plusone: and then I buy the Book too........:gag:
 
cowasaki said:
I always have a play first but I do read the manual when I need to. Often you need to when it is for technical lookup type information.
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that ^
I last had a look at the manual about a week ago for my flash, and about two weeks when I was setting up the 1Ds for JPEG shooting. There are no picture styles on a classic 1Ds nor are the options particularly intuitive, so reading the manual from time to time is a MUST.
 
This day / age tech is so complex it depends on how ergonomic /easy to use the item is. Retrospectively reading a manual often reveals some hidden benefit.
It is often I retrospectively read one, unless I don't know how to do a specific task. Am I less of a man? :'(:'(
 
to be honest the 2 times i have read aprt from skimming through it waiting for batteries etc.

First: to check what i am doing wrong with the AUTO ISO - it basically told me it was crap and not worth bothering with.

second: setting up wireless flash system. - annoyingly i was almost there.
 
I'm another boring b****r who RTFM while the battery's on its first charge. TFM then lives next to the throne until I'm sure I understand almost all of it, then it goes in the kit bag so I can refer to it as and when necessary.
 
matty said:
i left the manual for 7d in the toilet...
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You as well?

Chapters are a good length for bog reading... and I always know where it is when I need to read about the autofocus. again.
 
c4rv3r said:
RTFM? Never heard of that one before, i've also never heard of a manual, what is this strange thing you speak of?
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Are you sure you are not Stevie instead of steve?:);)
 
I haven't read a manual in years, I even put my first home built computer together without referring to one!

I do wish I knew where my SB600 manual was...
 
I don't read the manual as such, but looks things up in it, when I can't find or work it out on my own...
 
I don't think I've ever read a manual on a computer, printer, hifi, TV, food mixer or, well, just about anything.

But I do this for a living.

Camera manuals are well thumbed.

I once sat at lunch with 2 pros who were discussing the best way to shoot a time lapse on a D2X. They discussed various triggers, tethering to a laptop and the possibility of paying somebody to press a remote trigger every so often. "Um, or you could use the built in intervalometer. It's in the manual...."
 
Allways read it, and even take it along on tog outings for when I get stuck on some new fangled bit :geek:
 
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