Woops: Even the pros screw up

Wilt wrote in post #14809495
Verbiage from the web site...

"Olympic Photographer Forgets To Remove Lens Cap, Can’t Figure Out Why He Can’t Take Pictures
"A moment of levity yesterday, as one sad-sack photographer struggled to work out why he couldn't get some good closeups of eventual all-around gold medalist Kohei Uchimura. After 10 solid seconds of checking his camera, a revelation: the lens cap was still on. We've all been there, guy."

Ohhh - tough love there...

My first camera was a Yashica rangefinder so more than once I had people ask me if I realized I had my lens cap on and that was usually after I took a shot or two. But when you can't see anything through a SLR you should just reach out and take the lens cap off. Maybe people that have never used a rangefinder don't realize that.

It looks like he was using live view, perhaps he thought there was a technical problem?

MikeFairbanks wrote in post #14809256
http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=DUtq2UqpzVg

That should work.

It's not as funny as it would appear to be. It only takes him a couple seconds to realize.

right, but everyone sometimes forgot lens cap, memory card, etc.

Was more 6-7 seconds.

And I don't think he looked through the viewfinder before starting to look for a problem. I think he had the display showing info, and reacted that it gave unexpected exposure times so he started to wonder what was wrong before even knowing that the viewfinder was black.