SueScott Loc: Hammondsville, Ohio

No problem - I was behind you and caught the whole thing!

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

Forgot to insert an SD card on a helicopter tour in Sedona. The two shots I did save to camera were out of focus as I forgot ther lens was set to manual from the day before. Next time I will follow the pre-flight checklist.

broncomaniac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

Wow, a helicopter tour. Yeah, that's one I'd beat myself up about. Hopefully you were enjoying the ride.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

I still have the bruises nearly a year later.

dborengasser

Bluebonet season in Texas a few years go. Drove to Brenham and clicked quite a few shots. Later realived there was not a card in the camera. Learned there was a setting to avoid doing that.

PaulR01 Loc: West Texas

Here is a recent one. When shooting sports I carry multiple cameras with different lenses. You have to be able to grab one and shoot. Typically I turn the auto off selection to off from two minutes. Two of my bodies have a bad habit of turning them selves on when transporting in my backpack. Recently flew to Arlington TX for a 2 day rodeo and I had forgot to turn the auto off feature back to two minutes when transporting and both bodies were dead and I had a full days shooting ahead of me with one extra battery. Thank god for outlets along the walls at Cowboy Stadium.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

Yes, and thanks. The ride was so interesting I didn't shoot much so I could take it all in. Still, being dumb and dumber at the same time is hard to forget. I also snagged the front half of a TLR leather case on a cottonwood getting in position at the edge of a very large canyon in the southwest but decided not to climb down after it.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

So why did you have a problem with single point AF for a landscape? I leave me cameras set to single point AF and AE (usually spotmetering) all the time. It just have to at times lock focus and exposure and re-frame my shots. Works fine for me anyway. I'm aware of what I'm focusing on and metering on.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

1. Once I went to an adult ed photo class forgetting to have a SD card in my camera. Luckily a classmate had an extra card I could borrow for a couple days.

2. This is rather specific to my equipment but I've found that I was having trouble using old vintage all manual "film" lenses because even when I set the lens to say f/8 it and the camera was shooting wide open at say f/2.8 at a correct shutter speed so I got an OK exposure but with little DoF. Also sometimes the shutter speed selected was too long and I had blur issues. I finally found on the WEB not in my camera owners manual the explanation. I had to press a green button on the back first to set the camera to a "normal program" mode. The E-Dial Program had to be set properly for this use.

3. I seem to always have trouble making on board flash or external flash exposures. Trying many different modes before I get one that works correctly. Usually M or X. I think part of the problem and confusing like (2) above is I use many types of lenses with my cameras and there are slight differences in their properties on my various cameras. Perhaps I just have too much equipment!

4. One of my lenses, a third party wide angle 19mm f/3.8 lens focuses by turning the barrel the opposite direction from my camera brand lenses. I've gone out shooting and "focused" at infinity but in reality de-focused for up-close. Since the vintage film lens has huge DoF and is in essence a FF lens the image was kind of in focus but certainly not sharp. I should have paid more attention to what the camera would have been telling me since it beeps and has a little icon that comes on when the view is in focus regardless of type of lenses. And that system is really sensitive and would have noticed a 19mm lens even slightly off. I don't have any 10mm lenses so I can't say how that might work out. But my 16-50mm f/2.8 Zoom works fine with booth AF and MF.

saxman71 Loc: Wenatchee, WA

I had set my camera up for back button focus the day before I took it out to find some birds to photograph. I was at a marina when a male belted kingfisher flew up to a sailboat mast with a little fish and passed it to its mate waiting on the mast. A beautiful moment that I completely missed because my camera would not focus. I was certain something was broken. It wasn't until I was on my way home that it finally occurred to me what I had done. Back button focus is now second nature to me but on that first day it was not.

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

miklj

Not long ago I shot a Senior Night at our college's volleyball team. 16 players, parents, mates...nearly 100 snaps that could not be redone...and no card in the camera. Poop.

broncomaniac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

Ouch. Sorry to hear about the once in a lifetime moment that slipped by. I'd be happy just to witness that, though.

broncomaniac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

Oh, that's a tough one to live with, huh? I once lost an entire day's worth of shooting that I'd saved to a flash drive so I can sort of relate. Sort of.

broncomaniac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

I was shooting over a building, so there was nothing but sky in the photos. I'll have to make an attempt using your reframing technique but I've never had the issue with zone.