Duh!! Duh!!! Duh!!!!
May 14, 2021 18:11:39 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
markngolf wrote:
Life is much too short to expend energy on DUH's!!
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks,
Mark
Yes. So I went back to focus on half press of shutter release and setting the camera to only release if it has focus.
May 15, 2021 08:31:18 #
trinhqthuan
Loc: gaithersburg
LFingar wrote:
In January of '69, while on R&R in Hawaii with my wife (My first one. Sort of a starter kit.) I was taking photos with my trusty Yashica Electro 35. After 4 or 5 shots my wife asks "Shouldn't you take off the lens cap?" I have to say though, those pure black photos were perfectly focused!
I got the same camera and had many 'duh' moments like yours in the early 80s...
May 15, 2021 09:12:48 #
May 15, 2021 10:25:18 #
markngolf wrote:
How could I forget to focus?? br I did, 7 times, w... (show quote)
Age my friend, age!
May 15, 2021 10:38:50 #
Bridges wrote:
Age my friend, age!
I don’t think so!! New situation and not much time or I’d agree with that. I use that excuse often.
Thanks,
Mark
May 15, 2021 12:16:20 #
May 15, 2021 14:29:04 #
On a hike I met a young bobcat. He was curious and looked at me for a while so I got out my camera. In a hurry to get a shot before he left I didn't check the settings on the compact camera. As a result the shot was out of focus and the flash went off giving him a green eye effect.
And one on my brother. We where hiking up Mt St Helens in SW Washington. That was in the days before digital and he was snapping pictures like crazy. About halfway up the mountain, he realized that he had no film in his camera.
And one on my brother. We where hiking up Mt St Helens in SW Washington. That was in the days before digital and he was snapping pictures like crazy. About halfway up the mountain, he realized that he had no film in his camera.
May 16, 2021 03:38:22 #
Sounds like a good reason to plan a “photo makeup” gathering for the summer. Oh and don’t let on about the “duh” unless they already know.
May 16, 2021 10:16:07 #
Reminds me of a story Paul Harvey once told (some of his stories may have been true). I think it was in Yellowstone that a bear was getting into the back of a car to get some goodies. The car's owner had his camera and insisted that rangers allow the bear to continue, he wanted the pictures. Only after the bear was leaving the car did someone manage to get through to him that he still had the lens cap on.
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May 16, 2021 14:04:23 #
markngolf wrote:
How could I forget to focus?? br I did, 7 times, w... (show quote)
You're not alone. I have 2 different Olympus cameras and a Nikon Z5, all with the BFF on different buttons. When I pick up a camera, I have to get which button works for BFF (if I remember), I usually get it right after a period of puzzlement of what am I doing wrong.
May 16, 2021 14:04:59 #
FL Streetrodder wrote:
On one of our trips to Hawaii, we took the road beyond Hana on Maui and circled around to once again we reached civilization stopping and snapping photos of the fantastic scenery along the way. Only when we got back to our accommodations in Kihei and attempted to review the photos did I discover that I had failed to put a memory card in the camera!
Done this too.....
May 16, 2021 16:20:07 #
Mark. I think you have started one that will keep going for a long time.
Chuck
Chuck
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