{"id":1039,"date":"2008-02-20T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2008-02-20T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:22:20","slug":"no-lens-reflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"No Lens Reflex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many many moons ago, I met with <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeforrant.blogspot.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Lex<\/a>, the then buyer of my Sony Alpha 100. We were at Chili&#8217;s, and I was explaining the camera functions to her, when this girl hobbled over next to our table and looked at us intently.<\/p>\n<p>Take a picture, her pose told us. She leaned seductively against the chairs. We thought it was so cute! (Did she learn it from an older sister or aunt?)<\/p>\n<p>She continued standing there. Oh, all right. I used my Sony Alpha 700 to shoot this one shot of her, to humor her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/shuther1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>She kept posing. I continued the conversation, and looked, and she was still posing!<\/p>\n<p>I then tried the Sony Alpha 100 with body cap on to see how she&#8217;d react.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/shuther2.jpg\"><br \/>\n(I looked something like this. Thanks Lex for the shot!)<\/p>\n<p>She immediately started crying! Must&#8217;ve been the body cap. Or did she already know what a lens was, feeling rejected by this long-haired-artistic-photographer-looking dude?<\/p>\n<p>She ran over to her mom, who went, &#8220;<i>uncle made you cry ah?<\/i>&#8221; Her family proceeded to camwhore with their digital cameras, to cheer her up.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be the A100&#8217;s different, more mechanical door-slamming sound, often said to be loud (though some say, satisfying) while the A700 had a quieter, more subtle mirror action. A friend said the A100 made his dogs go wild but the A700 made them pose willingly (or something like that!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many many moons ago, I met with Lex, the then buyer of my Sony Alpha 100. We were at Chili&#8217;s, and I was explaining the camera functions to her, when this girl hobbled over next to our table and looked at us intently. Take a picture, her pose told us. She leaned seductively against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}