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CP 5700 Addition. |
Into every text, a little typo must fall. With 458 pages, 1200+ images and 370+ Photoshop Action Filters plus all the text, package, and demo programs, the ability to make mistakes grows exponentially. But I stopped growing years ago, so I still make mistakes... Fortunately the errors and/or omissions of an eBook aren't as final as they are for a bound volume. The small errors listed are already fixed in the newest eBooks, but many got out with these --er-- flubs. Nothing serious. Relax.
The number of errors found so far is very small. Nearly microscopic. Some typos with words misspelt, a filter that was renamed but not in the text, and some downright goofs... That sort of thing. First person who spots each of the 14 errors, typos or hiccups that I have not found, gets a free Upgrade Disk when it appears. But that's another story. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. --Will Rogers Here's what we know (these don't count for the free Upgrade and most, if not all of them are fixed in the current shipping eBooks): 1. We wanted to include the iNEFer.atn Photoshop Actions on the CD but they didn't make it. So now you can download them in a blink from this site. Simply go to the eBook and look on page 3G-10. See where it steers you at the bottom of the page? Go there and the iNEFer.atn file will be a snap to download. Remember to load it into your Actions Palette directly, not the Plug-Ins flolder. 2. What's this Ch3Eu.pdf file doing in my High Res individual chapter folder?? We have no idea. You don't need it and Ch3E.pdf is the one all the other chapters are directed to. Dump it. No need to copy that one to your hard drive. Oops. 3. Hey, where is the prefix for Chapter 2's page numbers? It's missing. Not that this will even slow you down. The page numbers still are there, they're just missing a "2-" prefix like the other chapters have. 4. How about those "iSkyGradFilters"? Where the heck are they? My bad, I called the iSkyGradFilter.atn file the iGradFilter.atn, and that's not what they're called. So where you see "iSKYGrad...", think "iGrad..." in the cluster of iNovaFX Filter files. (fixed on V5.0.1) 5. Flash operation suggests that the camera flash can be closed while external flashes will fire. (pg 3G-39) Nope, it's an error to be re-written in Version 5.0.1. The camera flash must be UP for its sensor to see what's going on. That's logical. Even when the external Nikon speedlight is the only thing firing, that camera-bound sensor feeds it the signal to extinguish once enough photons have been detected. It's not a true TTL (Through The Lens sensor as is found on SLRs) but behaves similarly. That top paragraph on the page should read, "As long as the flash is pushed closed, the camera assumes you don't want to see it. But it must be up for external flash units to fire. As long as it's down, darkness won't cause the flash to become active."
6. Page 3G-14, Force Flash. Something about a shot of a stop sign? What stop sign? Oops. The image is on page 3E-12 demonstrating Force Flash's effect on reflective material. Version 5.0.1 will link to it interactively. 7. So far, no number 7. Yet. |
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A new page for the V5 eBook! Revised page version now available. |
New eBook page about The CP5700. The perfect
camera; the perfect manual focus system? Nikon engineers have a little egg on their face. Well, that happens. It's not like these things are born mature. Firmware fixes have helped nearly all of the Nikon Coolpix cameras, and we really wish the other manufacturers would build the field-upgrade firmware systems into their cameras they way Nikon has. Still, one of the engineers came up with a Bright Idea that was really a Dim Mistake. Speaking of egg on face. My previous version of this chart was inaccurate. Now I know why. The new version is available with greater accuracy for all 64 manual focus clicks. Beyond wishful thinking, the manual focus system in the CP4500 and CP5700 are not as good as systems for all prior Coolpix cameras. The new bar graph is a step backward. A de-evolution of sorts. Spank that engineer. Here's a new extra page for your eBook Chapter 3G--Camera Operation of the CP5700. You may wish to print out the chart at the top of the page and keep a copy of it in your camera bag. The chart tells you where you are focused in feet/inches or meters/mm with every one of the 64 clicks of the Command Dial. Note: A procedural error messed up the accuracy of the first one. This one's much more useful. 2 17 03 |
Software producers like
Microsoft end up having to swallow things that affect whole industries.
Things like "security holes" and math errors. Egad.
To
clarify; with a Nikon speedlight, the menu option of Speedlight Cntrl >
Int and Ext Active
allows only the external flash to fire, providing it faces forward.
The camera flash doesn't fire at all. However, if the external
flash is in a bounce position, the camera flash joins in to provide
some direct illumination. BUT, if a non-Nikon flash unit is being
used on top of the camera, both the camera and external flash
fire together, no matter where the external flash unit is pointed.
Simple, eh? A flash system with rules a lawyer could appreciate.