Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
We all do stupid things and make stupid mistakes all the time with our cameras. Well misery loves company so post yours here.
The funniest one recently was I was just out shooting for fun like I always do and I generally look at my photos as they pop up on the rear screen. The first one looked great so I started shooting away. I noticed that the exposure was off. It was underexposed then the next one looked ok and the next one was overexposed. took me a minute but then I realized that the day before I had been shooting Bracketed shots and had forgotten to reset it. Lucky that what I was shooting did not matter.
The nice thing about mistakes is that it makes you learn a lesson that is a lot harder to forget. Sort of like why my second wife is so much better than my first wife.
Another time I couldn't understand why my images sometimes where blurry. Changed all kind of settings but still happened - but only some of them. Well of course I set the lens for manual the day before, doh. Luckily I was just shooting trees..
Oh I did that one too, Don. I was out shooting dogs for fun with a friend and I was soooo hungover. Took me quite a while to figure it out, felt pretty silly lol.
Another time I couldn't understand why my images sometimes where blurry. Changed all kind of settings but still happened - but only some of them. Well of course I set the lens for manual the day before, doh. Luckily I was just shooting trees..
I avoid many problems like that by always returning the camera to a known state when I'm done with it. Then, when I go to use it next time, I know exactly how it's configured so I know what I need to change for the shot I'm taking.
My last brain fart was using the MC-DC2 wired remote. Pushed the button, the camera fired, then................... nothing.
Turns out I remember why I hate Nikon's wired remote.......... there's a slider around the button that 'locks' the button down. Since then, I've put epoxy around the slider to keep it from doing that.
My latest blunder was a few weeks ago. I drive almost 40 miles to a wildlife reserve. Get out of the car and start walking around. I see a White tail deer not 75 feet away. Whoosh! Out comes my best speed draw using my BR strap. Line her up, switch on the power, half press the shutter........nothing. My batteries are back home in the den on the charger.
I solve that problem by leaving the camera upside down on my desk with the battery door open if there is no battery in it. I have two batteries for the D5100 so there is always a battery in it but I do not have a spare for my D7000. I have just ordered a D7100 and I am getting a spare battery shipped with it.
Last duh moment was last afternoon. I was shooting manual focus playing with Hyperfocal ranges on the 24-85 and left the lens on manual the day before. Took me a few seconds to figure out what was "wrong". At which point I solved problem number two by realizing I had left my CPL screwed in, thus explaining the very dim viewfinder in the quickly vanishing light.
It was a facepalm kinda day.
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