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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004Why do I never have a camera??
Persia was sitting on the windowsill, meatloafing in the sunshine, nicely framed by two african violets in baskets. By the time I loaded the diskette into my Sony Mavica she got up and wandered over to meow at me and see what I was doing. Dang, it would have been a great shot! Jill >Persia was sitting on the windowsill, meatloafing in the sunshine, nicely >framed by two african violets in baskets. By the time I loaded the diskette >into my Sony Mavica she got up and wandered over to meow at me and see what >I was doing. Dang, it would have been a great shot! > >Jill Exactly why I have so few shots of Stinky. Whenever I aim the camera at him, he has to come right over and fill up the whole frame with one huge eye or something. Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >Persia was sitting on the windowsill, meatloafing in the sunshine, nicely >framed by two african violets in baskets. By the time I loaded the diskette >into my Sony Mavica she got up and wandered over to meow at me and see what >I was doing. Dang, it would have been a great shot! > >Jill That is why one day last year my son set up the video camera to record every few seconds for all day that we were gone. When we got home, he checked it out and discovered the cats had managed to avoid the center of the focus. We had lots of pics of ears and tails and paws...:-D -- CATherine Oh, too bad, would have made a great shot! Always have fully charged batteries in your camera and the card/disk loaded and ready to go. Keep camera out of case on desk. That's what I do :-) -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Persia was sitting on the windowsill, meatloafing in the sunshine, nicely > framed by two african violets in baskets. By the time I loaded the diskette > into my Sony Mavica she got up and wandered over to meow at me and see what > I was doing. Dang, it would have been a great shot! > > Jill > Oh, too bad, would have made a great shot! > Always have fully charged batteries in your camera and the card/disk loaded > and ready to go. Keep camera out of case on desk. That's what I do :-) That's what I do, too. The only slowing-down moment is waiting for the camera to warm up. I wanted to take a pic of Frank reading the morning newspaper this morning, but he got up and walked away while I was waiting for the camera to be ready.  SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki > > Oh, too bad, would have made a great shot! > > Always have fully charged batteries in your camera and the card/disk [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > newspaper this morning, but he got up and walked away while I was waiting > for the camera to be ready. Really? How long does your camera take to warm up? Sounds like it must take a long time. Mine is ready to go about 1 second after I press the on button. I didn't realize that some cameras have to warm up first. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album "badwilson" <BW@yahoo.com> wrote in > Really? How long does your camera take to warm up? Sounds like it must > take a long time. Mine is ready to go about 1 second after I press the on > button. I didn't realize that some cameras have to warm up first. It might not be longer than a second, but it feels much longer, and as Jill said, it's time enough for the cat to lose the cute or funny pose. :o) My camera is a HP 320 - not the cheapest, but not top of the line either. I'm not a good photographer, so I don't feel motivated to get a very expensive camera. As everyone knows, I only take pics of the cats, anyway. ;o) SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki >It might not be longer than a second, but it feels much longer, and as Jill >said, it's time enough for the cat to lose the cute or funny pose. :o) Great to hear, now I have an excuse not to drag out the ancient Canon 35MM monster (an excuse that sounds a lot better than the truth, that I'm to lazy). ;-) Turn the flash on on that thing and it's probably 15-20 seconds before it's ready to go, beeping the whole time. Then of course once it is ready it continues to beep at you until you take a picture. >My camera is a HP 320 - not the cheapest, but not top of the line either. >I'm not a good photographer, so I don't feel motivated to get a very >expensive camera. As everyone knows, I only take pics of the cats, anyway. >;o) Awww, but what better subject is there to take a picture of? SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html > "badwilson" <BW@yahoo.com> wrote in >> >> Really? How long does your camera take to warm up? Sounds like it must >> take a long time. Mine is ready to go about 1 second after I press the >> on button. I didn't realize that some cameras have to warm up first. > It might not be longer than a second, but it feels much longer, and as Jill > said, it's time enough for the cat to lose the cute or funny pose. :o) My camera always makes some little noise as it's warming up, a beep or something, which gets the cats' attention and makes them change position (usually to come check out what I'm doing). Joyce > > "badwilson" <BW@yahoo.com> wrote in > >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > something, which gets the cats' attention and makes them change position > (usually to come check out what I'm doing). In most digital cameras, there's a setting where you can turn off all sound effects, or just the sound effect it makes when turning it on. That might help. What I do too is to turn my back to Vino while grabbing the camera and turning it on. I hold it close to my chest and get it all ready and then I whip around and take the shot before he realizes what's going on :-) Another thing that helps is to take off any dangly straps that the camera has. Way too tempting for cats to play with! >> Oh, too bad, would have made a great shot! >> Always have fully charged batteries in your camera and the card/disk [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > newspaper this morning, but he got up and walked away while I was > waiting for the camera to be ready. Only takes a second or two, which is all it takes for them to casually stroll off and ruin the shot! :) Jill |
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