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Colleague got one of the work cameras out of the cupboard and found it wouldn't work. When we looked, some dumkopf had stuck a memory stick pro into the SD card slot on a Nikon D50. Took a few minutes of trying various tools to extract it. It now works just fine. Some people!

What's the dumbest camera blunder you've encountered?
 
Probably a wrong lens mount forced into a body - the bayonets were about the same size but not close enough. "I thought it was a tight fit."
 
Came back from a day's shooting followed by several beers, put my hand into my bag and pull out an SLR without looking at what it is, then spend 5 minutes wondering why i cant plug the USB cable into it. Look down and see that it was one of my EOS film bodies

:bang:
 
Without thinking, gave my wife a lens cap to get a stone out of her boot tread. New cap was needed!
 
footman said:
I did a similar thing on a 1DII. Put the CF card in back to front, you know I really had to force it in.
Expensive repair, I wont do that ever again.
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Ouch :gag:
 
I was competing a friend's car at a forthcoming event and he hired a section of Kemble airfield for a bit of testing and so I could familiarise myself with it. He mentioned that he couldn't get the main runway as someone else was using it for aero testing a single seater - it was Brawn GP with one of their F1 cars. So I bought the camera and 70-200 with me and fired off a load of shots.

Got home and it turns out I'd not put the CF card in, indeed I'd left all of my cards at home so even if I had noticed there was no card in the camera, I'd not have been able to do anything about it. urgh!
 
Back in 2005 I did a road trip round California and took my recently acquired Nikon D70. Early on in the holiday I switched to ISO 1600 for some low light shots, and promptly forgot to change it back to 200, and spent the next week taking noisy shots of the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, etc. I finally realised in Yosemite and managed to get some decent shots, but I was kicking myself. The shots were usable, but it was still annoying. From them on, until I got my D700 in 2009, the first thing I did when I switched the camera on was check the ISO!
 
Our first christmas in the current house I spent ages wondering why all my shots where blown to hell when I used the flash. I changed meter modes, flash compensation, exposure comp.....I'd left it in manual 1/1 power. Didn't work it out until days later.
 
Snapping away at a water spout in the Atlantic ocean, very rare phenominum - s..t - no film in camera - which is sadly less rare than a water spout.
 
My recent dumkopf - took a few shots using manual exposure, found i was getting the exposures pretty bang on. Looking at them in lightroom i saw i was using auto-iso.....
 
Rapscallion said:
My recent dumkopf - took a few shots using manual exposure, found i was getting the exposures pretty bang on. Looking at them in lightroom i saw i was using auto-iso.....
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Just goes to show that you should trust your camera's meter! P mode FTW!
 
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