We used to take the mickey out of Japanese user manuals for not being written very well. My favourite example was “engine not turning very round”, although sadly I suspect that may have been apocryphal.
Now, I think there’s a danger they are swinging the opposite way. Yesterday, in the manual for my new Canon 7D, I found a word I never expected to find in a camera user manual: “hereinafter”. Correctly used as well, but is this quite the language we expect of a user manual for the masses?
Here’s a picture from my Swiss trip last year. I was a little disappointed with my shots from Montreux – it’s such a compact town it’s very difficult to isolate the buildings and features from one another. However, I’m reasonably Continue reading
Hi, welcome to my new photo blog. Here’s a shot taken on my trip to Santorini last year, a “grab shot” of a rather nice yacht scudding along in one of the island’s trademark sunsets. The triangular shapes at the Continue reading
Well, maybe not exactly a split as such, but a new structure. “Thoughts on the World” is a pretty eclectic mix of professional, personal, humour and photography-related content. However, one reader who follows mainly my “professional” content expressed a wish Continue reading
The limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply Continue reading
Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows Continue reading
Hi, My new blog is now live. This allows a lot more flexibility, including commenting etc. Please can you make sure you are taking your RSS feed from one of the following: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThoughtsFromAndrewJohnston (preferred) https://www.andrewj.com/blog/index.php/feed/ (straight from my site) I Continue reading
Quite a lot of news… Migration of our web sites and email to the new hosting server is almost complete. See previous article/rant for some of my findings. After some initial frustration with my hosting provider (WebFusion) when I discovered Continue reading
<rant>Apologies if the title is a bit strong, but I think it’s the nearest I can get to the opposite of “In Praise of PHP” I’ve just spent a week-end migrating my website to a new hosting server. As part Continue reading
What’s missing from the typical DSLR, anno 2010? What could be improved, using simple established technologies, to make the DSLR a better picture-taking device? And why don’t the major DSLR manufacturers do some of these things, which might help sales? Continue reading
Fascinating, fun, and more depth than the first book Continue reading
A sandwich with not quite enough meat Continue reading
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