Always Check Your Settings

Not me :)
 
Try at a wedding ;) always check settings when walking through a door
 
That's not an error - Jpeg is still usable.

I biffed the first three horses at Greenwich on Tuesday because I forgot to adjust from Single Shot focus.

I'd reset every other setting before going out but couldn't be bothered to put a lens on to adjust the AF mode.

Oops! :$
 
DemiLion said:
I biffed the first three horses at Greenwich on Tuesday because I forgot to adjust from Single Shot focus. Oops! :$
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How did you get in to that Mark?

A friend of mine lives nearby and applied for tickets. I was desperate to go but he said it was locals only.
 
If you go completely manual, it's easy to forget to reset everything afterwards.
mainly ISO and -/+ for me though but i have used jpeg instead of raw on a couple.
 
Woog17 said:
I know what you mean shot ISO 200 at a reception, luckily I wasn't the main shooter :)
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i wouldn't have thought ISO 200 would have caused to much of an issue.........!!
 
CaptainPenguin said:
Whose the pillock whose taken 250+ shots in jpeg instead of Raw on the 400D in Wales this week
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Welcome to the dark side, hopefully I will not be on RAW anytime at the weekend;)
 
Several times I've accidentally pressed a button on my camera and selected timer mode, pressed the shutter release and then wondered why it didn't take a photo!! Annoying when it's the two Red Arrows flying towards each other!!
 
My little weakness is to dial in 1 or 2 stops exposure adjustment for a shot then forget to zero the control afterwards and end up with a load of over or under exposed shots.
 
Came in from the rain this evening having just taken nine bracketed shots, so will deffo remember to revert the setting before the camera goes to bed.
 
Could be worse, I had a photographer working for me (who will remain nameless) that forgot to put a card in the camera whilst shooting a semi-final, he hadn't set the camera to no-release mode so didn't notice until getting back to the sales desk and then was slightly embarrassed, when he opened the camera and discovered his mistake.

He did it again a few weeks later at one of his own events, with a new camera he hadn't used before the day!!
 
First thing you ever do do with a new camera is change setting so you can't shoot without a card in......

jeez.... should not be doing photography if anyone can't get the basic prime concepts sorted... Deserve all they get..........

Merry Christmas!


some times when reading threads on this really great site..... I feel it is full of Hams!.
 
Daryl said:
First thing you ever do do with a new camera is change setting so you can't shoot without a card in......

jeez.... should not be doing photography if anyone can't get the basic prime concepts sorted...
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you must have overheard my chat with the photographer ;) Glad you edited out the swear words for the family viewing if this site :lol:
 
Is there a way to 'zero' your settings or should it be a manual process each time?
 
Daryl said:
First thing you ever do do with a new camera is change setting so you can't shoot without a card in......
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Makes you wonder why the sell them set like that in the first place.
 
bigrob said:
How did you get in to that Mark?

A friend of mine lives nearby and applied for tickets. I was desperate to go but he said it was locals only.
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Through British Eventing. Every event was issued them.

Daryl said:
Simon, There were no swear words.........
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I think that Simon was implying that he might have sworn a tiny bit when debriefing the guy in question! :lol:
 
DemiLion said:
I think that Simon was implying that he might have sworn a tiny bit when debriefing the guy in question! :lol:
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:) indeed I was :lol:


littlemonster said:
Simon, that's unbelievable.. how can anybody be THAT stupid? :gag:
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It does sound utterly silly however, everyone can make mistakes even a relatively experienced photographer. It wasn't the end of the world and I'm pretty sure that we didn't loose any sales (we had plenty of shots already). We actually laugh about it now!!!

I learned a valuable lesson and it's now a standard part of my photographer agreement that the cameras have this mode activated. It obviously took the photographer a bit longer and another incident to learn from the mistake but he has now!!

For me this was forgivable, he still gets the p taken every time we do an event together about it. However what wasn't forgivable was the other photographer, again who will remain nameless, who agreed to do a two day event but because of poor sales on Day 1 he wimped out of Day 2, at 7:30 at night on Day 1 (I had the last laugh, I managed to find someone else at the last minute to do Day 2 and we had a fantastic day) but that's a completely different thread.
 
I shot most of a day's worth of photographs in a South African game reserve in JPEG because my daughter borrowed the camera, changed the setting, and I didn't check when I got it back. Didn't make much difference, really.
 
whiteflyer said:
Makes you wonder why the sell them set like that in the first place.
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My camera is quite often tethered to the laptop and when it is I always remove the card from the camera
 
My main error is forgetting to change ISO when emerging back into the daylight. :)
 
jonhowell said:
Is there a way to 'zero' your settings or should it be a manual process each time?
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May vary from make to make. I tend to have my cameras on Manual with auto ISO therefore the settings I dial in remain until I change them.
 
I haven't made the transition from jpeg to raw yet, need to learn some pp skills first.

Switching back from AF to MF gets me, I tend to switch it back just incase but sometimes forget :bonk:
 
arclight said:
My little weakness is to dial in 1 or 2 stops exposure adjustment for a shot then forget to zero the control afterwards and end up with a load of over or under exposed shots.
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:plusone: Did this at Lake Como in Italy,luckily noticed when I chimped on the 25th shot.
Will check earlier next time.:bonk:
 
Al de Man said:
Yep. Shot at ISO 1600 on a bright sunny day plenty of times.
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Done that last weekend in Peak District..... ISO 1600 for half a day!!!!!
 
On Canon cameras the "C" position on the dial resets your camera to your predefined settings everytime you switch it on.
 
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