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Feb 11, 2019 14:24:04   #
E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
 
What y'all fail to realize, if you are wearing polarized sunglasses while shooting, when standing on your head or lying down sideways, you may black out all the data on you LCD screen and if you have a CPL filter on you lens you will black out the entire TTL image. Now! there's an issue to solve.

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Feb 11, 2019 14:29:55   #
Jack Mac Loc: Suwanee, GA
 
What doesn’t go well with Polaroid sunglasses is a Polaroid filter on your camera
That combination CAN appear as though you still have the Lens Cap on your camera!

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Feb 11, 2019 15:12:58   #
hookedupin2005 Loc: Northwestern New Mexico
 
markngolf wrote:
Welcome to the , .... sorry, forgot what I was going to write.
Mark


LMAO! Good one, Mark.

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Feb 11, 2019 15:16:31   #
waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li
 
markngolf wrote:
Welcome to the , .... sorry, forgot what I was going to write.
Mark



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Feb 11, 2019 16:28:45   #
rwoodvira
 
Been there done that. A senior moment.

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Feb 11, 2019 16:34:51   #
MauiMoto Loc: Hawaii
 
Good one. 😁

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Feb 11, 2019 17:03:55   #
ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio
 
BillO wrote:
Ok, so yesterday my wife and I took a walk down the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland and I took along one of my SLR's. The day started out overcast and foogy, but the sun came out beautifully later. Remember that..its important!
I decided to take a few photos and raised my camera. To my horror...nothing. I could barely see through the view finder and none of the electronic senor indicators were showing (usually green led).
I almost panicked, turning the camera on and off and trying to see what I had wrong..still nothing.
It was then I noticed that if I depressed the shutter button, the camera did cycle and took a picture.
Now I was really stumped.
Then it hit me. I had to sit and laugh.The sun had come out!
I simply had on my "wrong" eyeglasses.
The ones I was wearing were "the auto-darkening type" and the sun had darkened them to the point that I could not see the LEDS and barely through the view finder.
Off came the glasses and poof went the problem.

It made for a good laugh anyway.
A case of Oldtimers disease.

BillO
Ok, so yesterday my wife and I took a walk down th... (show quote)


Thought you were going to say you forgot to remove the lens cap. Done that a few times. Also remembering to turn on the camera, done that also.

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Feb 11, 2019 18:13:26   #
PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place
 
We have all had those kind of moments!!

Don

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Feb 11, 2019 22:40:53   #
aellman Loc: Boston MA
 
BillO wrote:
Ok, so yesterday my wife and I took a walk down the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland and I took along one of my SLR's. The day started out overcast and foogy, but the sun came out beautifully later. Remember that..its important!
I decided to take a few photos and raised my camera. To my horror...nothing. I could barely see through the view finder and none of the electronic senor indicators were showing (usually green led).
I almost panicked, turning the camera on and off and trying to see what I had wrong..still nothing.
It was then I noticed that if I depressed the shutter button, the camera did cycle and took a picture.
Now I was really stumped.
Then it hit me. I had to sit and laugh.The sun had come out!
I simply had on my "wrong" eyeglasses.
The ones I was wearing were "the auto-darkening type" and the sun had darkened them to the point that I could not see the LEDS and barely through the view finder.
Off came the glasses and poof went the problem.

It made for a good laugh anyway.
A case of Oldtimers disease.

BillO
Ok, so yesterday my wife and I took a walk down th... (show quote)


From another old timer: I always wear sunglasses when driving on sunny days. Once I forgot to take them off and walked into a Walgreens. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I said to myself," Wow, it's so dark. Have they shut off half the lights to save energy or maybe it's a brown out." A few seconds later I realized what was up, and I had a very good laugh at myself.

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Feb 11, 2019 23:49:02   #
Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas
 
DITTO! And today I couldn't get my wireless mouse to work with my laptop. Finally realized that I had forgotten to reinsert the nano receiver in the USB port.

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Feb 12, 2019 10:13:15   #
missd Loc: Phoenix,AZ
 
😎. This was just to precious! I can relate for sure.

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Feb 12, 2019 12:07:17   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
What y'all fail to realize, if you are wearing polarized sunglasses while shooting, when standing on your head or lying down sideways, you may black out all the data on you LCD screen and if you have a CPL filter on you lens you will black out the entire TTL image. Now! there's an issue to solve.


Polarized lenses are a problem when using a a CPL (obviously)

Transition lenses (which I think the OP was wearing) are a different problem in sunlight. And (side note) transition lenses do not work in your car because of the filtering in the windshield, which makes them ineffective.

Both types of lenses may cause limited problems with an LCD screen

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Feb 12, 2019 15:52:35   #
Bongo-Fury
 
Working in a photo studio recently, one of my younger colleagues broke her glasses and was struggling with focusing during sessions. Then I showed her how to use the diopter on the eyepiece. She was ecstatic and didn't realize that's what it was for. Sometimes you get old and and you learn stuff.

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Feb 12, 2019 19:07:38   #
Willie-
 
I haven't had any "senior moments" yet...I'm 51. But this thread has been extremely entertaining to read!!! I'm sure I'm almost there!

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Feb 12, 2019 19:24:57   #
Photocraig
 
Ob some of my SENIOR days and ALL my eyeglasses are wrong!

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