When daddy is right, he is right!
March 21, 2010
Daddy: “I want to see what kind of pictures of the stars it’s possible to take with the new camera”
Me (half asleep): “Hm? Eh?! Ah, I don’t think it’s that better than the old one in this kind of pictures”.
“But it has a more sensitive sensor…”
“Well but stars are small, little…”
“I’m curious”
“Ok, take the camera”.
“… but I don’t know how to use it…”
Sigh!
“You taught me how to use electronic stuff you can understand how to use it”.
“I don’t have much time”
“Ok. What do you need to know?”
“How to set it…”
“If I set it and you use it?”
“OK!”
“You need the tele lens”.
“No, it’s just a test I don’t need the lens…”
“stars are small objects you need to zoom a little”
“Is it f.28?”
“Yeah, the tele at it’s minum, 50 mm, is a 2.8, instead the wideangle at 54 mm is f 3.5 and…”
“ok, ok…”
“and take the tripod”.
“Ok!”.
I changed the lenses, set the camera and give it to daddy. A few minutes later he came back home complaining about the focus, I set the focus on just-manual and give the camera back to daddy.
After a few minutes I decided to see what was happening because he was taking too long to take a simple picture test.
What’s wrong?
Daddy mumbles something.
I got close and I understood he couldn’t see well the image, I showed him that he could use the monitor instead of the viewfinder…
“Oh! Finally”
“Wow! You can really see the stars even with these settings. COOL!”
We have been outside for 40 minutes playing with the camera settings and enjoying my little tele lens.
I could have avoided to tell the whole story, but I think it was too nice to not be told! 
It’s a part of Orion constellation. Of course seen large is much better and at the end I “just” have a 50-200 mm lens that is good but surely not the best lens available in the world.
I started thinking about buying something to adapt my camera to one of our telescopes even if daddy keeps on saying that they are not good telescopes.
Daddy was right, I love when he proves me that I’m wrong being patient and nice
