How about a Jargon busting section.....

[WaterMarc]

Excuse me for being ingnorant as a relative beginner, but would anybody else find a "jargon explained" section useful?

I am not a complete beginner but everything I have learned so far has been from books and the internet and taking lots of bad photos. I have never been in this lucky position to be surrounded by so many pro "togs", and weather you all realise it or not - you do have a sort of language of your own sometimes which makes short answers to some posts quite difficult to decipher when not obvious.

I have come unstuck a few times and have had to leave the site to trawl thru google results to try and make out what my slow brain could not grasp in the instant I read.

Just for an example:-"too narrow at the wide end" is still a bit confusing
and:-

"Just forget the crop factor and go for the lens range in total across your lenses" -I´m assuming this would mean instead of zooming in a bit you need to get closer?

Again, sorry for asking and I know it may sound tedious to the pros but if I didnt say anything.......well there could be a few of us who would benefit from a small glossery of pro terms---------I´m happy to spend time providing queries a bit at a time so that it wouldnt become a task one of the Mods gets lumbered with, and as a beginner I´m reading through lots of older posts anyway.......who knows - it could provide a bit of fun aswell as informing us newer to the world of "togging"

[Bandit]

"too narrow at the wide end" I think that was me :laugh1: That's not jargon, it's just poor English on my part..sorry :acute:

[WaterMarc]

but............did you mean that for example 18mm is not a wide enough angle or did you mean something else?

Come on spill the beans, then I can use it down the pub and sound like I know what I´m talking about.

[bartonflyer]

I think he just had his pint glass the wrong way up!!

[WaterMarc]

:laugh1::laugh1::laugh1::laugh1::laugh1:

[Bandit]

I think he just had his pint glass the wrong way up!!

That summs it up :laugh1:

Yeah I meant the narrow end of a zoom ie 28 mm was probably not wide enough on a crop frame sensor body, ie 1.6 x 28 = 44.8mm, too "narrow" to be a wide angle lens etc :)

[WaterMarc]

got it now - Ta.

A few more of those nuggets and I´ll be barred from the snug before the sun has gone down.

Seriously, I understand now.

Thanks

[lostmysnorkel]

Hi Watermarc,

Don't worry about it too much mate.....if there's summat you don't understand just ask....

There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers.