Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/30/02 5:41:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tedgrant@shaw.ca writes: > My feeling on however this M7 sets exposures is..... I don't need to know > how it does it, much like I don't need to know how a computer does what it > does....as long as it does it correctly. ;-) > > On one of my first computer lessons from number One son I kept asking, "how > does it do that and I don't understand what makes it do that?" Finally he > was so exasperated with me he said, "Forget asking and wondering, just use > the damn thing!":-) Ted, this reminds me of my mom - she pasased away five years ago, almost 96 - when I told her ten years ago how I fax a draft document to my cousin, a solicitor in Melbourne, how I put my draft in the fax machine at 6 pm, push some buttons and his telephone number in Melbourne, and as the paper is going in the machine a copy is simultaneously coming out of the machine in his office in Melbourne at 9 am next morning. She says: impossible, how does it work? I answer, haven't the foggiest. And Mom, do you know how your telephone works? No. All you know is enough to make it do what you need it to do. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html