Fuzzy Wuzzy was Not a Bear…
So I had a little mishap with my camera. Well, not actually a mishap, more of an unknown problem. I looked through my view finder this evening and everything looked fuzzy. I didn’t have my glasses on and I was a bit tired so I rubbed my eyes, blinked really hard and looked again. Still fuzzy. Fuzzy is not good.
My next step was to get a second opinion. Were my eyes freaking out or was something really wrong with my camera? I couldn’t tell. So I brought the camera to my husband and asked him to look through the view finder and tell me what he saw. He also saw fuzziness. I felt a tiny bit of relief in knowing that it wasn’t my eyes but I was also getting concerned that my camera might be broken. We tried cleaning a few places here and there on the camera, to no avail; it was still fuzzy.
Then I remembered where the camera manual was and decided to look at that, just in case there might be something in it that would relate to the situation at hand. While perusing through the Quick Start guide, I spotted what I was looking for; a section called “How to Focus the View Finder.”
I was ecstatic! I found the answer to my little problem. And of course, it was an extremely simple answer. There is a little focusing lever just to the right of the view finder. All I needed to do was move it up or down until the image became crisp. So I ran downstairs and grabbed the camera to test out my little nugget of knowledge. Low and behold it worked! My camera is not broken. I just need to learn how to use it!!!
So the moral of this story is short and simple… Keep your user manual in a safe and accessible place so that you can refer back to it as needed. Take some time to read through it and you might be surprised by what new information you learn about your camera.
So while you’re busy chasing kids, cleaning up spilled apple juice, folding laundry and finding time to get to the gym, try to pick up your camera’s user manual and read through it with an eye for details you may not be aware of. Tonight I will be chopping potatoes for Potatoes au gratin while I will be reading my manual. I’m excited to learn more interesting facts about my camera!
