Busy as a bird?

[detectivederp]

Tim was keeping himself busy enough-- not that this was much change from normal, admittedly, but he was certainly occupied now. Between his work in various departments, keeping an eye on Conner, gathering information, training, or otherwise, he was (again, not surprisingly) spending most of his time in his Red Robin costume, out and working in one

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The City as well!

[haruno]

Something about this series of lamp posts captured Sakura's imagination. She's not sure she understands what it was, but it's given her the perfect excuse to bring out that camera-thing she'd picked up on XaXing and try to learn a little about using it.

"Okay, so that was... on." She looked between the camera and the manual that'd come along with it. She had to translate chunks of it through the omnicomm, which was slow going, but so far she'd figured out the on button. She'd also figured out the difference between looking through the small viewfinder and watching the larger screen to see what the camera's eye was seeing. She guessed the camera stored images, like much of the technology she'd encountered since being on ship, if she didn't know if it could ever come out of the camera to something else. Even if it didn't, well. She pressed another button, watching the screen on the back go blank.

No images found on memory card.She hit the button again, and the image returned to what the camera was pointing at. For the moment,

[detectivederp]

Tim had been travelling above ground, between rooftops via grappling line, to get back to his base of operations, when he saw the familiar looking girl down below, seeming to struggle with a camera as she stared ahead at the lamp posts in front of her. Normally he'd have not really bothered with a random passer-by in the streets, but this was someone he had met very briefly (they hadn't really exchanged words so much as they had been involved in the same conversation), and his curiosity was somewhat piqued. She seemed to be having some trouble there, if he could see what it was correctly.

He dropped onto a ledge near by, silently, and listened for a moment as he watched her, and listened in. It seemed he was right, after all-- he jumped down from the ledge, putting his cape out to catch the wind and ease him down as he landed. "Having some trouble?" he asked, gruffly.

[haruno]

Sakura wasn't exactly at ease over being approached by people she wasn't familiar with, if it was a joke and a half since that counted for a majority of the crew even now. She'd seen more faces at the meet and greets after pod-pop than she'd spoken with at length in person.

She recognized who this was by appearance over anything else. Kon's friend. (Conner, Kon-El, Superboy, whatever name he chose at the moment.) One of the people there for questioning the ship when it came to the dratted clock, which yet remained intact. As far as she knew, at least.

She smiled, holding up her little camera. So small! Palm sized, and it could do such amazing things! If she figured it out. "Trying to figure out how to use this thing," she admitted, eyes on him. "I've been slowly getting through the manual."

[detectivederp]

At least Tim could sympathize-- while his own body language wasn't something that tended to give away his feelings on the matter, he didn't tend to approach people without reason himself. He was very much a loner, in most of his life and work, though he was fine with communicating with people all the same. He just didn't normally go far out of his way for it.

He held back a chuckle at her confusion over the camera. Of course, he was more than used to more complicated electronics like that one (and more so, as well). It was something his job called for, after all (and he admittedly did like photography-- the hobby had just been dropped ages ago). "Stuck on something then?" he asked, coming just a little bit closer. "The basics are straight forward, once you get used to them."

[haruno]

"Do the basics include figuring out if you're stuck recording versus taking actual pictures?" She looked back down at the camera, twisting the dial for settings. "There're more settings on this thing then reasons to use them all."

She thought the one box with the holes on either side might be the recording option. Twisting away from that setting brought her back to the one she had figured out by now meant review. The triangle pointing right within the rectangle. "This is what lets you look at what you've already taken, right?" Sakura tilted the camera back toward Robin.

[detectivederp]

Tim let out an amused noise at that. She was probably from a time where technology like this was completely foreign, but it wasn't as if she wouldn't be able to figure it out. "Chances are you won't need to use most of those settings," he said. No need to complicate it for her-- but if she wanted to learn how to more precisely use it later, that was fine.

He leaned just a bit to get a closer look at what she was pointing out to him. Nodding, he said, "Yes. It opens up a display of your photos."

[haruno]

She pressed it, and the screen display on the back lit up with an image of the lampposts in the area. Examining the back of the camera closely, she pressed one of the buttons, switching the image. Now it was one of her face looking surprised -- probably hadn't been intentional on her part. She pressed the button again to get that image off screen. "You can review the videos you record on this too, right? How do you make them play?"

Kind of her to assume the guy who laughed at her ineptitude would know the answer to all her questions.

[detectivederp]

Tim nodded to the girl's question, pointing out the button on the camera that would pull up the menu for play, fast forward, etc. "When you have a video on your display, you can use that button," he explained. "It lets you watch it or look at it as individual images."

[haruno]

"You can break down the video into individual images? Decent quality ones?" Sakura was surprised to hear this. She musn't have gotten to that part of the manual, and she knew the pause function wasn't always the best for clarity. "Could you in theory retrieve an image from a video, if there were a way to move images off this to something else?"

[detectivederp]

"Generally not as high of quality as taking normal pictures. But it depends on the camera itself." Really, it was more looking at individual frames and using that, but that was beside the point right now. No need to complicate it too much when she was still looking at the basic use. "In theory," he said. "Software can let you do that."

[haruno]

"Software that might even be available here on ship?" Sakura wondered if that meant it was possible to get photographs from the device onto paper, like she was used to back home.

[detectivederp]

"It's possible, given all that 'Stacy' has access to," Tim conceded. "Or at least something else compatible." If they were able to access technology like cameras, shore leave or not, it was a logical assumption they'd be able to access something to work with them.

[haruno]

"I'll have to figure that out in the future," she said. Kind of an amusing declaration, if she also seemed serious about it. "You know, between everything else I've got to prioritize first."

That thought makes her smile, then laugh, then sober up again. "We'll get him back to normal," she said, almost off hand. It was as firm as her prior statement had been serious.

[detectivederp]

"Fair enough," Tim conceded to that. He was already taking probably too long of a break himself, from all of the things he had to/wanted to get done.

But he quickly turned solemn himself, looking at her seriously through the mask, and nodding. "I know," he said, voice losing some of his harsh tone. "Thank you. Just let me know if I can help in any way."

[haruno]

She nodded to him again in turn. "I will," she said. "Just like Rory will."