Leave my fricken camera alone!

So I quite often have my SLR at work, and I work with technical people, so inevidibly someone has to come up and play with it.

That's fine if they don't drop it.

However what really gets me is when they do there best to go through and change every setting they can find, when I go and pick up the camera to take a quick shot expecting it to be the way I left it, I get something unexpected, yesterday it was in manual with the shutter set to 8000 and the ISO at 100 so when I went to shoot off a couple of shots of the girls doing crazy stuff I missed the first few shots!

OK the lesson here is don't let people play with it, and always check it before taking shots.

Actually if you want to play a mean trick, change the CF that focuses the camera, another member on this forum was fond of doing that to my camera, I would pick it up and wonder what on earth was wrong with it

FlyingPete wrote in post #5362722
Actually if you want to play a mean trick, change the CF that focuses the camera, another member on this forum was fond of doing that to my camera, I would pick it up and wonder what on earth was wrong with it

But thats not mean enough; mean is to set it to shoot without a card and take the card out.

This is along the lines of another thread that is going.
Check it out if you dare.
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=458703

Quad wrote in post #5362855
But thats not mean enough; mean is to set it to shoot without a card and take the card out.

ouch... that'd be a killer.

Funny you say that pete. I have one of these problems when I pick up some gear that I have never played with, I wont to check out every single setting on the device.

Of course I have learned to see the settings and not change the settings.

My SLR is always, and I mean always, in only one of 3 scenarios:

1. In my bag. i'm overworked, under-leisured and get nowhere nearly enough shooting time, so this is the main situation (98%)

2. In my hands, being used ( 1.99%)

3. In the hands of a suitably trusted friend or relative, having been suitably coached in how to use it. ( 0.01%)

It hurts, to be so retentive, but there you go!

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #5365771
Funny you say that pete. I have one of these problems when I pick up some gear that I have never played with, I wont to check out every single setting on the device.

Of course I have learned to see the settings and not change the settings.

Luckily your name doesn't come to mind!

I did often lend my 20D to a fellow GKPEr that didn't have an SLR, he often left the focus mode changed. The people here at work are just fiddling and being plain annoying, one has a 10D so likes to compare for differences in my 40D, I tell him simple maths, its four times better

FlyingPete wrote in post #5370493
Luckily your name doesn't come to mind!

I did often lend my 20D to a fellow GKPEr that didn't have an SLR, he often left the focus mode changed. The people here at work are just fiddling and being plain annoying, one has a 10D so likes to compare for differences in my 40D, I tell him simple maths, its four times better

hahaha