On What You Don't Know

I have a camera sitting in a box in my kitchen. All I've done so far is charge the battery.

When I peek into the 140 page manual that came with it, I am astounded—so much information crammed on a small page and in small print.

There are warnings—don't force, don't overheat, beware of entering a warm environment with your camera when you've been outside on a cold day.I assume they mean winter cold.

Stay away from magnets. Keep your fingers away from the sensor.

Set the date and the time—how do you wish to read the date and time? I'm surprised that there isn't a setting for longitude and latitude.

When Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham) invented the first pinhole camera— Camera Obscura— round about 1000A.D. he only worried about upside down images.

The first camera I owned after the Kodak Brownie was a Used Bolsley—a rangefinder camera. And with that camera I always worried about things being in focus. Who could have envisioned autofocus?



Perhaps tomorrow I'll start at page one and work my way through the manual—