Jock Elliott
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Troy, NY
Went for a walk the other day with my better half and the P900 slung around my neck. I pulled the camera to my face for a shot only to be greeted not by the scene I wanted to photograph but an animation displayed on the EFV.
“Connecting to smart device,” it said, showing a bunch of colored squares running around in a circle. In the lower right corner, I read: “Press OK to cancel.” So I did, and the camera resumed normal operation. Oddly, this had never happened before in all the times that I have used the P900.
The very next time went to take a shot, it did the same thing . . . and the next time. Pressing OK stopped the “Connecting to smart device” operation, but it was annoying to have to do this every repeatedly. I thought maybe the P900 and its Expeed C2 processor had lost its tiny little mind.
It wasn’t until the next day that it slowly came to me what was going on. I am left eye dominant, so I press the left side of my face against the camera to look through the EVF.
Normally I wear glasses. Since my cataract operations, I don’t need them for middle and long distance vision, but for convenience I wear bifocals with plain tops and those thumbnail “reader” lenses in the bottoms. They make life easier when I’m trying to see at a distance and also read something close up – like looking at the shelves in a store and reading a shopping list or looking through an EVF and reading the controls on the back of a camera.
But on this day, I had tucked the glasses in my pocket, figuring I had enough familiarity with the camera controls to work them while looking solely through the EVF. Without the glasses, my face was closer to the EVF, and my nose was poking and activating the WiFi button almost every single time I looked through the EVF.
I put my glasses on, and the problem vanished immediately.
Has anyone else had portions of their anatomy cause strange camera behavior?
Cheers, Jock
“Connecting to smart device,” it said, showing a bunch of colored squares running around in a circle. In the lower right corner, I read: “Press OK to cancel.” So I did, and the camera resumed normal operation. Oddly, this had never happened before in all the times that I have used the P900.
The very next time went to take a shot, it did the same thing . . . and the next time. Pressing OK stopped the “Connecting to smart device” operation, but it was annoying to have to do this every repeatedly. I thought maybe the P900 and its Expeed C2 processor had lost its tiny little mind.
It wasn’t until the next day that it slowly came to me what was going on. I am left eye dominant, so I press the left side of my face against the camera to look through the EVF.
Normally I wear glasses. Since my cataract operations, I don’t need them for middle and long distance vision, but for convenience I wear bifocals with plain tops and those thumbnail “reader” lenses in the bottoms. They make life easier when I’m trying to see at a distance and also read something close up – like looking at the shelves in a store and reading a shopping list or looking through an EVF and reading the controls on the back of a camera.
But on this day, I had tucked the glasses in my pocket, figuring I had enough familiarity with the camera controls to work them while looking solely through the EVF. Without the glasses, my face was closer to the EVF, and my nose was poking and activating the WiFi button almost every single time I looked through the EVF.
I put my glasses on, and the problem vanished immediately.
Has anyone else had portions of their anatomy cause strange camera behavior?
Cheers, Jock