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I had some friends around for lunch yesterday. By the time we finished the sun was setting in the garden (good lunch). The light was nice so set up a couple of lights in the garden for some family shots of them.

We had a real laugh, and got some great poses, the lighting was spot on with a nice red sky and the family exposed nicely with a softbox to camera left and an umbrella from the back right .

I tend to use two shooting menu setups on my D700, one for non flash use (auto ISO on) and one with it off.

It was only when I downloaded them to my computer that I realised I had the wrong one selected and I had done the whole thing at 6400 ISO!

:bang:

I shouldn't drink and shoot...
 
At least you got something, could have had it set at ISO100 and got b****r all :thumbs:
 
What do the photos look like?

I spent a whole shooting with my D40X on ISO 1600 once - couldn't twig why the meter was giving me the suggestions it did. The pics in the end didn't look like how I planned but they had a look and feel that really worked on a couple of them.
 
gingerjon said:
What do the photos look like?

I spent a whole shooting with my D40X on ISO 1600 once - couldn't twig why the meter was giving me the suggestions it did. The pics in the end didn't look like how I planned but they had a look and feel that really worked on a couple of them.
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Not too bad until you zoom to 100%. The friends are pretty happy with them as they weren't expecting an impromptu photo shoot. I still felt daft though...
 
Yeah, I think we've all done this! I was in Greece with blazing sunshine shooting at 1600 ISO and wondering why I was getting such amazing shutter speeds... stupidly putting it down to it being obviously very very bright in Greece :nuts:. I ended up getting one of my favourite photos to date out of the bunch though, so there's always a silver lining!
 
Yup did this whilst on a trip around europe, forgot to change the ISO from 1600 back to 400 after one night, so the next day I was taking photos with 1600 ISO.:bang:
 
I've done far worse than using the wrong ISO. Was at Kemble last summer testing a competition car I was going to compete in the following weekend on part of the runway, there was someone else there using the main runway - Brawn GP.

I had my camera and fired off a load of pictures. Got home and realised the CF card was sitting on my desk the whole time. Aargh!
 
onomatopoeia said:
I've done far worse than using the wrong ISO. Was at Kemble last summer testing a competition car I was going to compete in the following weekend on part of the runway, there was someone else there using the main runway - Brawn GP.

I had my camera and fired off a load of pictures. Got home and realised the CF card was sitting on my desk the whole time. Aargh!
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That one takes the cake :D

My favourite landscape shot was ruined by 1600 ISO (on a 400D). The problem, it transpires, is that if I take a portrait shot and rotate the camera to the right my nose presses absolutely plum on the ISO button, two quick presses with my nose and bang, ISO 1600 instead of 100. So, took a portrait shot of a tree, went back to landscape and ended up with 30 or so images at 1600 ISO before I realised (half an hour and a long walk later).

It was a bright sunny day and I had the camera in Av and wasn't paying attention to shutter speeds, just exposures on a sunny day in snow.
 
Squawk said:
That one takes the cake :D

My favourite landscape shot was ruined by 1600 ISO (on a 400D). The problem, it transpires, is that if I take a portrait shot and rotate the camera to the right my nose presses absolutely plum on the ISO button, two quick presses with my nose and bang, ISO 1600 instead of 100. So, took a portrait shot of a tree, went back to landscape and ended up with 30 or so images at 1600 ISO before I realised (half an hour and a long walk later).

It was a bright sunny day and I had the camera in Av and wasn't paying attention to shutter speeds, just exposures on a sunny day in snow.
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Can you not fix this with Nose Ninja ??;)
 
leave it alone
i set at 64 and just cope..

boring me
 
onomatopoeia said:
...Got home and realised the CF card was sitting on my desk the whole time. Aargh!
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I was in Sri Lanka last year. Got up at 5am one morning and walked around Kandy as it was festival time there were some great shots to be had in the sunrise. Got a mile from the hotel before I realised I didn't have a cf card in. Had to run back to the hotel and wake my wife up to let me in.
 
My very first paid for portrait gig, they turned up early whilst I was setting up and I didn't go through all my checks and ended up shooting the whole thing at ISO1600 on a D300. Came out OK, but had to convert to black and white.
 
robmiller said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome_(song)
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Mamma don't take my Kodachrome awa-ee-aaay...


Bah!! - it's stuck in me head now...lol
Just had to go onto iTunes and buy it - then saw a load of other stuff from my 'yoof' (Dad was a big fan...) and dropped a tenner on the Essential Paul Simon...lol

64 was so-oooo good... it was like...I dunno...strawberries and cream in 36x24mm format...

The blue pin-holes were a Royal PITA though especially towards the end...
 
Arkady said:
Mamma don't take my Kodachrome awa-ee-aaay...


Bah!! - it's stuck in me head now...lol
Just had to go onto iTunes and buy it - then saw a load of other stuff from my 'yoof' (Dad was a big fan...) and dropped a tenner on the Essential Paul Simon...lol

64 was so-oooo good... it was like...I dunno...strawberries and cream in 36x24mm format...

The blue pin-holes were a Royal PITA though especially towards the end...
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i switched to fuji pro and got a lab to do them

edit...ektachrome
 
Yeah...after Hemel closed it was a rubbish service as well...
Fuji was also my immediate second-choice, so to speak...
 
Yeah, was taking some shots indoors and had to up the ISO to 800 to get a reasonable shutter speed since I don't have a flash.

Forgot about that when I went out to take some landscape shots a few days later though...
 
Arkady said:
Yeah...after Hemel closed it was a rubbish service as well...
Fuji was also my immediate second-choice, so to speak...
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E4 ekta was ok...i think
i used the fuji stuff in my roll film cameras:)

kodachrome 25 never became a favourite of mine as it happens
 
mrcrow said:
E4 ekta was ok...i think
i used the fuji stuff in my roll film cameras:)

kodachrome 25 never became a favourite of mine as it happens
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Same here...25 was too 'smooth' for me, plus at 25iso it was almost useless for anything but bright sunny days...and the reds didn't seem as bright.
I think I was using Fuji Provia in my 'Blads and Pentax 6x7s and shooting Fuji Reala 100 in my F5's...

I think about the time that K-64 was no longer viable, I migrated exclusively to Ilford: FP4, HP5 and XP-1 and 2...
And then along came the Nikon D1 and the world changed forever.
Terrible colours, awful viewfinder, teeny-tiny LCD screen... and almost none of us saw it coming...
 
Arkady said:
Same here...25 was too 'smooth' for me, plus at 25iso it was almost useless for anything but bright sunny days...and the reds didn't seem as bright.
I think I was using Fuji Provia in my 'Blads and Pentax 6x7s and shooting Fuji Reala 100 in my F5's...

I think about the time that K-64 was no longer viable, I migrated exclusively to Ilford: FP4, HP5 and XP-1 and 2...
And then along came the Nikon D1 and the world changed forever.
Terrible colours, awful viewfinder, teeny-tiny LCD screen... and almost none of us saw it coming...
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wowowow nearly 3Mp...i can hold my head up now with the oly c765..

isnt it great to be old:geek:
 
Thankfully this wasn't me but my cousin.

His brother was in the navy and served in the Falklands in 1982, when they returned after the war my cousin borrowed a cine camera to record the fleet arriving at portsmouth, sound film was sold out everywhere, all he could find was some silent but it was better than nothing so he took it.

The fleet arrival was spectacular, 1000s of people, fire tenders shooting water into the sky, all the sailors lined up on deck, then the film ran out.

He put the camera down and watched the rest, then he picked it up to leave and noticed he hadn't taken the lens cap off
 
Learning the hard way is really the best way. You are not a true plank until you have made the same comedy error twice.

I nowspend a couple of moments putting my settings back to 'Default general' before it goes back in the cupboard. That is ISO 400 (100 in summer), TV mode shutter 1/125 and AV mode to F4 with a charged battery and a 4Gb CF card.

If I grab the camera ans start shooting there is a fair chance all will be well when I have a moment.
 
My first camera club studio shoot, got everything set up, fired off a few shots and thought, wow, it doesnt usually write to the card that quickly.... went to check the image and histogram..... screen says: no images, thinkin my cards gone wrong, open to take it out and put it back in again........ no card! then i remenber its still plugged into my comp.... doh :bang: ended up having to steal someones spare for the evening..... its now part of my checks :thumbs:
 
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