What's your favorite dumb camera mistake?
Jan 2, 2022 14:22:54 #
Let's have some fun. Be honest and let us all laugh at you. And you can laugh at us.
I will start.
My favorite dumb mistake is setting a shutter timer then NOT immediately resetting it back to normal mode. Invariably next shot or next time I use the camera, I'm wondering what the heck is wrong with my camera and furiously stabbing at the shutter button then click. DOH!!! And having missed the decisive moment, I then set about resetting the shutter to normal mode.
Go ahead. Laugh.
And share your favorite mistakes so we can also laugh.
I will start.
My favorite dumb mistake is setting a shutter timer then NOT immediately resetting it back to normal mode. Invariably next shot or next time I use the camera, I'm wondering what the heck is wrong with my camera and furiously stabbing at the shutter button then click. DOH!!! And having missed the decisive moment, I then set about resetting the shutter to normal mode.
Go ahead. Laugh.
And share your favorite mistakes so we can also laugh.
Jan 2, 2022 14:31:39 #
OK, I’ll bite. Not watching to see if the takeup spool is actually rotating when I wind off the leader on a film camera.
Jan 2, 2022 14:34:01 #
freediver808
Loc: Hawaii
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and leaving lens cap on for underwater photography session while camera is securely protected by underwater housing and discovering that underwater…
and leaving lens cap on for underwater photography session while camera is securely protected by underwater housing and discovering that underwater…
Jan 2, 2022 14:35:29 #
The Leica Q2 has a ring around the lens that lets you access macro mode. Invariably, once I am in macro mode, I forget to take it out of that mode. Then I cuss and fuss when the camera won’t focus on anything I want.
Jan 2, 2022 14:35:51 #
While alone and driving my car, I took a couple of shots. They were blown way out because I had the camera in Manual and hadn't preset it for bright daylight.
I changed it to "P" and tried again. Good exposure but not as good scenery.
I changed it to "P" and tried again. Good exposure but not as good scenery.
Jan 2, 2022 14:46:10 #
Jan 2, 2022 14:48:39 #
There's only you and your camera, guess I forget the memory card again ...
Jan 2, 2022 15:01:37 #
Shooting a high school football game for the newspaper and not realizing I did’t have the sync cord for the flash plugged in. (Back in the ‘70s when we could shoot flash)
Luck was in my side as I got two shots lit be some other photographer’s flash. One was a touchdown from the end zone that they printed. I was using a Mamiya C-330 medium format twin-lens reflex. One would have thought I would notice my flash recycle time was non-existent. Young and dumb, back then.
Luck was in my side as I got two shots lit be some other photographer’s flash. One was a touchdown from the end zone that they printed. I was using a Mamiya C-330 medium format twin-lens reflex. One would have thought I would notice my flash recycle time was non-existent. Young and dumb, back then.
Jan 2, 2022 15:02:07 #
JD750 wrote:
Let's have some fun. Be honest and let us all la... (show quote)
JD750,
I have done pretty much the same as you. I'll try to think of another.
Jan 2, 2022 15:10:25 #
While using my Fujifilm camera, accidentally getting into video mode and not knowing how to switch it back to single shot photo still mode. I hit the shutter and no picture but then I notice the video was running like if in live view but not finding the off for the video. Turn out it is a switch atop the camera not far from the shutter release. Annoying and I've done it more then once. 
Jan 2, 2022 15:30:10 #
JD750 wrote:
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Not following my checklists of menu settings for the five distinct ways in which I use my camera. They are all VERY different.
Jan 2, 2022 15:34:53 #
One of the thing I did quite often in recent years is to forgot and left the meter in spot mode. I wouldn't realize it until I notice the auto exposure picked by the camera is significantly different from my estimate.
Jan 2, 2022 17:55:27 #
Forgetting to set the camera time when I went +5 hours away.
Jan 2, 2022 18:11:57 #
Longshadow wrote:
Forgetting to set the camera time when I went +5 hours away.
I wouldn't even consider that a mistake. I really don't know what time is on my camera clock now.
Jan 2, 2022 18:19:21 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I wouldn't even consider that a mistake. I really don't know what time is on my camera clock now.
Relatively speaking yes.
But I KNOW I was not at a location at 3 or 4 AM.
10 AM for my camera was really 3 PM local time.
It just messes me up when I wonder if I was at a location in the morning or afternoon that day.
But I did use an EXIF tool to correct them all.
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