Coming Clean

Let's face it we all have certain "Oops" moments in life that we wish we could change. Photography is no different. On many occasions, yes a few times, my "Oops" has always been the same.
Have been using Back Button AF now for a few years most of the time, key word most.
Only when on tripod with remote release do I have to go back to the menu and put the AF back on to the shutter release. No big deal. You shoot, pack up your gear, go back home relax. Next day you go to shoot, focus, recompose and "Oops"!!!!!
Back to the menu and take the AF off the Shutter!!!!!
Let's hear your "Oops" moments so we can all come clean.

Nick5 wrote in post #16883197
Let's face it we all have certain "Oops" moments in life that we wish we could change. Photography is no different. On many occasions, yes a few times, my "Oops" has always been the same.
Have been using Back Button AF now for a few years most of the time, key word most.
Only when on tripod with remote release do I have to go back to the menu and put the AF back on to the shutter release. No big deal. You shoot, pack up your gear, go back home relax. Next day you go to shoot, focus, recompose and "Oops"!!!!!
Back to the menu and take the AF off the Shutter!!!!!
Let's hear your "Oops" moments so we can all come clean.

My biggest oops is to forget to change the ISO back to something sensible after bumping it up for some low light shots. I'll just be matching the meter up (shooting manual) for the 3rd or 4th shot before I wake up and realize that I'm shooting at ISO 3200, 1/2000 @ f16.

It was a Red tail hawk and it was floating by in the early morning sun. Had my 100-400 locked out at 400 and everything primed and ready to go.
It was a great shot , I could see it in the viewfinder, halfway pushed on the shutter button, it was nicely infocus. I pushed the button, and nothing happened, I started mashing the shutter button, still nothing as the hawk slowly went out of focus and drifted away, leaving me cursing the lens, camera and whatever else I could think of.
I had been shooting before in Manual Focus, and thats right, the switch was still in manual focus mode. Duh !
I felt like the Anolog Kid:

"The boy lies in the grass, unmoving
Staring at the sky
His mother starts to call him
As a hawk goes soaring by
The boy pulls down his baseball cap
And covers up his eyes"
Should have just pulled down the baseball cap !

ISO left on 6400 and used in bright sunlight, AF left switched off, IS switched off when I need it, Yep been there done that!

Having a Kingfisher land right next to where I was, feeling so pleased that I had the right lens and the light was good, raising the camera up to the subject, subject still perched, switched the camera on and got error message 'no card'. Just as well Kingfishers don't repeat what they hear!

2slo wrote in post #16883318
Having a Kingfisher land right next to where I was, feeling so pleased that I had the right lens and the light was good, raising the camera up to the subject, subject still perched, switched the camera on and got error message 'no card'. Just as well Kingfishers don't repeat what they hear!

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt. Heck, with that one, I have a closet full You would think I would learn!!

More of a camera flaw in a way than an oops - hate it when the mode dial slips to manual without noticing and you then take a big shot of overexposure for a few pics.

A definite oops - arriving somewhere realizing memory card is back in the reader or battery is at or near drained.

Forgetting to change a full card in a decisive moment...

If I had a quarter for every time I put viewfinder to eye before removing the lens cap, I'd have enough $$ for a 1Dx. Well maybe a 5DIII, anyway. The worst was a time when a (maybe) 8 year old kid at a ball park said, "You need to take that off first!" while pointing at the front of my 100-400L. Thanks, kid.

NOTHING you can do to screw up with a digital camera can compare to popping open the back of a 35 mm camera to load film, only to realize that it still had film in it (with photos on it from your son's birthday party).

2slo wrote in post #16883318
Having a Kingfisher land right next to where I was, feeling so pleased that I had the right lens and the light was good, raising the camera up to the subject, subject still perched, switched the camera on and got error message 'no card'. Just as well Kingfishers don't repeat what they hear!

That is the second option I change upon buying a camera.

1) Beep off
2) Don't allow shooting without card (I think it warns you this way, or some models do, when you turn it on)

groundloop wrote in post #16883548
NOTHING you can do do screw up with a digital camera can compare to popping open the back of a 35 mm camera to load film, only to realize that it still had film in it (with photos on it from your son's birthday party).

Don't you really only loose that one frame potentially? I never shot much film though, so I don't know.

^ You pretty much lose everything.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #16883621
That is the second option I change upon buying a camera.

1) Beep off
2) Don't allow shooting without card (I think it warns you this way, or some models do, when you turn it on)

Quite right re (2) and I always set that as well. I'd just come out and left the card in the card reader attached to my computer and not turned the camera on until I got to the river bank. I bet the Kingfisher thought it was funny

haha, done the film thing many years ago, just fiddling around with my camera. Messed up only a couple shots, luckily.

And the no chip thing, happened to me once. Boy's karate school had a demo at a kid's fest, usually I just snapped some P&S, this time I brought my gear, long lens, other lenses. But no card. Was a hot day, too hot to carry a big heavy paperweight around all day...

Never happened again, now I always check for card and battery level before the camera goes in the bag.

I've also done the too high ISO setting of course. And the MF setting....