I really am an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Just sat here, with my new DSLR, trying to fathom out the settings especially for ISO - ramping it up 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 & then 6400 & still getting a flashing message saying "light poor & flash suggested".

So pointed it out of the window thinking bags of light here today especially as I was pointing towards the sun but sill getting everything flashing saying light too poor suggesting flash.

So here's me thinking sodding DSLR cameras - too complicated for an old fart like me - better send it back & realised ----------------------------------------- I'd left the bloody lens cap on :bonk:
 
Yep you really are......:banana:





(not saying i am always leaving mine on and kids having to remind me)
 
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:lol: .................not like I've ever done it of course :whistling:
 
I also was wondering why it was so dark looking at the viewfinder - I was even trying to compensate by changing the exposure :runaway:
 
SLRs/DSLRs aren't too bad, at least you don't try to take a photograph when you can't see anything through the viewfinder. How many of us actually "took" photographs with older cameras, without realising that the lens cap was still on, because the viewfinder wasn't affected at all? Mea culpa................
 
That's nothing, I've snapped away without a memory card in , did not notice the warning or "Demo" flashing up :oops:

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John, on a different forum, there was a chap who couldn't figure out how to switch his DSLR on... Have to say that I've never left the cap on an SLR, although I have done so on assorted RFs and other non TTL VF cameras.

An example from my (now lost in post apparently...) Lomo Fisheye!

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Had the camera for a week now & so it's not going back :)

I can switch it on but some days can't get my brain switched on as it's not always firing properly on all cylinders - but will get there slowly :gag:
 
Hell on earth said:
That's nothing, I've snapped away without a memory card in , did not notice the warning or "Demo" flashing up :oops:

H
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Hmm, I leave my 30D on the default setting (shoot w/o memory card, off) which prevents this, but the damn thing still doesn't remind you to make sure there's a card in it before you leave home and drive 100 miles............
 
So -- glad to see I'm not the only 'one'
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It must be easily done, I remember a TP meet at Chester zoo a few years ago when a photographer (who wasn't with us i might add), raised his 1D up to his eye and rattled off 7 or 8 frames in rapid succession before noticing the lens cap was still on. :D
 
digitalfailure said:
It must be easily done, I remember a TP meet at Chester zoo a few years ago when a photographer (who wasn't with us i might add), raised his 1D up to his eye and rattled off 7 or 8 frames in rapid succession before noticing the lens cap was still on. :D
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All to easy to do, I have a habit of not turning my camera off, and also I use manual focus a lot, so in any case last year I shot a works Christmas do as part of the disco we were providing, standard jobs, any case camera back in bag and up to my room in the hotel, card out of camera and backed up then bed, after putting a fresh card in for the shooting in Yorkshire the next night got to the night shoot the next evening to find over 500 pure black 30 second exposures as the camera had sat they in my bag shooting all night while I slept :bang:

Then earlier this year I decided to get some stock just stars for star trails added into scenes etc so set the camera up in my garden and when back inside, came out 4 hours later to find it still shooting away happily, of course there was no card in either slot :runaway: :bang:

So now camera set not to shoot if no card in, and I also try really hard to remember to turn of the camera ;)
 
DaveF said:
I once ran off a roll of film on a holiday trip, only to realize later that there was no film in the camera...
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Snap! As it were.
 
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