Ask Uncle Dick - A New Camera Electronic Feature

All our readers are keen photographers - even the ones who have not been doing it for very long. Sometimes inexperience leads to frustration...how do you do something? Where can you get something? What does this button do? It's great to be able to come into one of the Camera Electronic stores - Stirling Street or Murray Street - and talk to the staff. In most cases confusion can be cleared up and your photography goes on better than ever. To bring this sort of opportunity to the readers who can't get into town, this weblog column will start a regular " Ask Uncle Dick " feature . Readers can send in enquiries about any sort of photographic subject and an answer will be forthcoming here on the screen. If Uncle Dick himself can't solve the riddles, he'll find a staff member with the necessary expertise to do so. If you need to know where photographic flies go to in the wintertime, by golly we'll send a junior staff member out there to hunt for them. Of course enquiries about how to take tabletop photos of model airplanes or advice on how to be love-lorn will stop right on this desk... Ah, but there is one thing - there are some questions that cannot be answered. Not embarrassing ones - we can always answer them. But there are things in photography that pass beyond the ken of even the experts. Cameras and lenses have sometimes been sent out by makers who cannot explain what they do, and we're in no better position. Also we can't really second guess the design decisions of manufacturers. Things is what they is. However - if you have a real enquiry, the answer to which would benefit yourself, take heart - a good answer may help other people as well. Use the comments section of this column to send in your enquiries or just address a letter to Uncle Dick c/o our Stirling Street store and I'll get to it each week. If you want to send a direct email enquiry that will eventually be answered here in the column you can also access: dslittlestudio@optusnet.com.au Be aware that the spam filter is on pretty well all the time and I really don't need Nike shoes, online gambling, or Russian brides.