I am an idiot....

NewCreation wrote in post #15715835
I have a "duh" moment nearly every time I turn on my camera. I can't seem to drop the "point and shoot" mentality and I have had an slr/dslr for 7 or 8 years. Each time I turn it on and take a quick shot it's done with the settings from the last time I used the camera. Kind of a pain when your last shot was a bulb shot and now you are just wanting to capture a fleeting moment.

Hmmmm.... Early onset Alzheimer's perhaps?

20droger wrote in post #15716040
Hmmmm.... Early onset Alzheimer's perhaps?

Let's hope not!

NewCreation wrote in post #15715835
I have a "duh" moment nearly every time I turn on my camera. I can't seem to drop the "point and shoot" mentality and I have had an slr/dslr for 7 or 8 years. Each time I turn it on and take a quick shot it's done with the settings from the last time I used the camera. Kind of a pain when your last shot was a bulb shot and now you are just wanting to capture a fleeting moment.

Hi Brenda,( and fellow shooters),
I find myself doing the same thing, so i'm an idiot,( not surprized tho ).,anyway ,nice to meet you for the first time. oh , if it really is Alzheimer's, it will be great to meet you again for the first time at another thread .

i bought a brand new 60D, for some reason the AF would stop working. took it to a camera shop they said it worked fine, called canon they said take it back. i packed it up and got a new one. same problem.

turns out my hand grip was causing my thumb to slightly press the AF lock button.

NewCreation wrote in post #15715835
I have a "duh" moment nearly every time I turn on my camera. I can't seem to drop the "point and shoot" mentality and I have had an slr/dslr for 7 or 8 years. Each time I turn it on and take a quick shot it's done with the settings from the last time I used the camera. Kind of a pain when your last shot was a bulb shot and now you are just wanting to capture a fleeting moment.

Each time I put the camera away I go through all the settings putting them to a sensible default. So ISO 100, F5.6, 1/125 EC +2/3. I do this for M, Av, and Tv modes so no matter if the main dial has been moved I should still get something close to a reasonable exposure. It also usually goes in the bag in Av.

Alan

Not an idiot at all, I think many have been there. Some may not want to admit it.

>>Public Humiliation story<<

Was shooting an event 2 years ago and I thought I was losing my vision some of the images were just not coming out sharp at all, as a matter of fact there was a few blurry ones. I was like WTFFFFF mannnnn. Whats going on here ? Standing there shaking my head my partner came up to me and she was like "Whats up ?" So I respond "I don't know mannnnn these pictures are coming out all messed up. All of my settings are right,I don't get it." She Lol'ed and said "Maybe because of this Genius." Switched the AF on! >>BINGOOO<<

A lot of times as I'm going through an event I go back and forth between video and photos. For video I switch to manual on the lens and then switch it back on to AF when I'm done with the clip. Long story made short...I guess I just missed it or forgot in the haste of the moment. Since then always just remind myself to look at the AF.

My big blunder was taking a couple hundred shots at a corporate field trip and afterward loading the CF card into the reader but forgetting to download them onto my machine. Wiped the card and for weeks afterward had people asking when they'd get to see the photos. They'd planned to use them on the website and everything . . . oh well (photography is a far cry from my real job so they couldn't really complain, but I felt bad).

To make matters worse, that day I also made the mistake of changing lenses in a very dusty spot, which took months and many cleanings to resolve.

I hadn't had my 40D for very long and I tried to take some pictures of my daughter running a marathon. It was a cloudy, dark, drizzly day and with the lens wide open my shutter speed was so slow I knew I was going to see lots of camera shake. I eventually realized the ISO was set at 100. It took me a while to get out of the film mind set and remember I could change the ISO any time I needed to.

Had a head scratching moment last weekend when most of my pictures came out overexposed. The highlights are just waaaaay too overexposed. I thought something went wrong with the camera. Double checked aperture, F8 on a cloudy day. Why is it still overexposed? Didn't realize it until 7 hours later when I got home from vacation. Turns out that I bumped LCD brightness all the way so I can verify focus on the LCD.

It was my first time shooting with 9-stop ND filter attached to the lens. I could barely see anything on the LCD on cloudy day so I bumped it up all the way. Removed ND filter and forgot to set LCD back to normal. No wonder most shots looked overexposed after removing ND filter.