Nikon D810 and me the idiot who owns it saga

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Thought I would check out my Nikon D810 with the 24-70 mm lens. The reason being the lens was attached to the D800 when I fell and we know the damage it did to the camera.

So out I go into the back garden to check it all out. Now here is where I became a right pratt and no thinking cap on.

So I take a few pictures of different views and then checked them in the monitor (chimping they call it). Damn the lens was damaged all the pictures in the viewing screen were dark, or so my poor brain registered.

Check the settings me thinks. So checked ALL the settings and tried most of them. Wrong it wasn't any of them nor the lens.

The idiot typing this had not turned up the monitor screen brightness on the back of the camera after several resets


Seriously though it just goes to show one needs to check everything before tearing ones hair out
 
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Ouch, but at least they were only test shots.

I've never had any screen brightness slip ups but I did once manage to take a series of JPEG's with my Canon 20D DSLR with something like -2 compensation dialled in. How JPEG and -2 came to be I just don't know. With todays cameras raws could have been rescued from -2 compo but JPEG's from a 20D left me with pictures that would always suffer during rescue :(

These days I check everything I can think of before setting out.
 
Met a guy at the usual photography spot in Staithes - he had all the gear, Canon 5DSR, L glass and the biggest nodal / panorama head I have ever seen.

He was there to get a panorama of the moon rising out at sea and with Staithes in the shot (this was last December).

He had been there the day before and got some great photos - problem was - it had been his sons birthday so he had set the camera to the lowest resolution and to Jpeg only!

He didn't see the funny side - made me chuckle all the way home :)
 
Dave that is nearly as bad as that myself and my Manageress witnessed.

We had gone for the day to a raptor center to photograph them in flight etc. Come midday we decided to have a coffee and a bite to eat in their little cafe type place.
While there in came this man with his wife and he was ranting and raving all over the place.It went something like this
Him to wife " I told you Nikon cameras were useless but you made me get this one last night so we could take some photos. I told you we should have get a Canon camera at least they work"

This went on for a good 10 minutes at least in this vain

My manageress lent over and asked if she could help as she often used my Nikon when she didn't have here Canon with her.

The man said " Damn Nikons worst company ever selling dud cameras" and he handed it over.

So My manageress said " Could I please have the battery as well to try it out"

That did it good and proper, you guessed it. Not only forgotten to charge the battery up but left it behind as well

You should have seen him he was a picture of embarrassment, and left straight away muttering to himself with his poor wife running to catch up.
Needless to say everyone else in the cafe burst out laughing
 
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Don't worry, I bought a used d600 and the settings were set up all strange.

The lens would not AF no matter what button you pushed.

I thought the camera was faulty and was about to contact the seller.
 
Glad I am not they only one then that has brain fade where cameras are concerned. I wonder how many other members have it to but reluctant to say?
 
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realspeed said:
Glad I am not they only one then that has brain fade where cameras are concerned. I wonder how many other members have it to but reluctant to say?
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A good one I've managed a few times is switching over to manual focus for landscapes on the tripod and then taking a handheld shot later in the day and wondering why the first one is out of focus... then switching it back to autofocus 2 seconds later!
 
I have had a few "moments" of my own:

Camera in bulb mode with cable release / shutter locked open - me cursing to the wife that camera was unresponsive
I regularly leave bracketing turned on and get only one correct exposure every 3 shots
Using mirror up mode and forget to press the shutter a second time - camera looks to be dead.

There are others, but these sprang to mind in a few seconds :)
 
Simple rule: Put your camera back to its 'normal' full auto settings before you put it away, each and every time you've finished using it! Look after your kit and it will usually look after you. (y)
 
Mr Badger said:
Simple rule: Put your camera back to its 'normal' full auto settings before you put it away, each and every time you've finished using it! Look after your kit and it will usually look after you. (y)
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I don't have a normal setting - depends on the shot I am taking at the time.

I really should turn bracketing, mirror up mode and exposure comp settings off before putting the camera away - but sometimes forget.

The things I mentioned above have been mid shoot - so there is no saving me ;)
 
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If you get into the habit of turning everything back to 'normal & full auto' before putting the camera away then it will be ready to grab a shot the moment you turn it on, which can be handy. Plus, you'll know where you're starting from each time you want to change settings to suit a particular shot, which is also handy!
 
I don't use full auto - never have with any of my cameras.

If I remember then the D810 (landscapes) goes into Aperture priotity, F11, ISO 64 and the D500 (wildlife) into manual with auto ISO, F4 500th ish of a second shutter.

Its the if I remember bit that is the issue
 
Walking across a field once and flushed three ducks from a rhyne in front of me, had the camera bag open and camera in hand in one smooth movement (it's never happened since), focused, pressed the button and thought 'what's happening - why hasn't the shutter closed? Has my camera gone wrong?' Nope - as I pulled it out the mode dial caught and turned to a setting I'd used to take long exposure shots a few days earlier.................
I used to leave my camera set on P, auto iso etc so I had to reset it every time I picked it up, but it didn't stop me getting it wrong. Continuous shooting when you're landscaping isn't a problem, bar anyone else around thinking you're an idiot, but servo autofocus really brings home that you're an idiot.
 
It’s easy done several times I’ve thought my af was broken,but I had knocked it to m by mistake.
 
I thought all my batteries had died so switched to my back up Oly.... the grip had come just a little bit loose. D’uh!
 
Dave Semmens said:
I have had a few "moments" of my own:

Camera in bulb mode with cable release / shutter locked open - me cursing to the wife that camera was unresponsive
I regularly leave bracketing turned on and get only one correct exposure every 3 shots
Using mirror up mode and forget to press the shutter a second time - camera looks to be dead.

There are others, but these sprang to mind in a few seconds :)
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We must be twins!
 
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