{"id":200,"date":"2007-10-11T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/11\/unwritten-rule-of-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:12:22","slug":"unwritten-rule-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/10\/11\/unwritten-rule-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwritten Rule of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

All questions asked must receive a bunch of completely pointless answers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most recent example: I discussed how my camera was massively<\/em> overexposing pictures. I explained that I shot in aperture-priority mode, meaning that I set the camera’s aperture and the camera will select an appropriate shutter speed. Shooting a bright white sign in direct sunlight, with an f\/4.5 aperture, it selected a 1\/45 second shutter speed. This was wildly inaccurate. I also walked through a, “You might think what I first thought” thing where I debunked a few of the answers I knew I’d get: that I’d maybe shot at ISO1600 or something, and that I had maybe switched to Manual mode by accident. I explained that neither was the case. I also explained that I ended up switching over to full-manual mode, where I got some great shots, so that it seems to be a problem with metering.<\/p>\n

A few people gave helpful answers. But I also got a lot of replies like, “Your shutter speed was far too low. It should have been 1\/1,000th of a second.” (Thanks, Sherlock. Do you understand aperture-priority?) Someone else suggests that I was maybe in manual mode by accident. Despite having already stated that I wasn’t, I explained that I had last been doing night exposures, so manual mode was set for a 30-second exposure. “I’d definitely have noticed,” I explained. Another helpful person suggested that I could have just switched to manual mode and set an appropriate shutter speed myself.\u00a0 Thanks for not answering the question of what was wrong and<\/em> not even reading the whole thing, where I mention that I did just that in the end.<\/p>\n

And I started a huge argument in another thread by pondering aloud why no one ever<\/em> made a zoom lens faster than f\/2.8. I wondered if it was some physical limit that I didn’t understand. People are now talking about how on the 5D you can use ISO6400 which offsets the need for a fast lens, and arguing over whether or not an f\/2.0 zoom for a non-35mm body is the same as if it were for a 35mm body, and whether f\/2 really means f\/4. And then someone argues about, “What is ISO, really?”<\/p>\n

Seriously, be careful about asking questions on the Internet. Most of the answers you get probably won’t answer your question at all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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