If anyone has done anything stupider, feel free to post

[kathyt]

This must be a Nikon thing or I have been screwing up for a long time because I still don't get what your talking about.

 

[mwild]

The odd time when someone asks me to take a photo for them with their little point and shoot, I never fail to bring it up to my eyeball where the viewfinder would be on my DSLR, only to realize there IS NO viewfinder, only a live screen view on the back.

 

[baturn]

Guess you missed my post about the D300s that suddenly wouldn't auto focus or trip the shutter.

 

[oldhippy]

Thanks for the replies. Best I can say. Now that I've confessed my stupid, and been bathed in the water of TPF ..Well I feel so clean. LOL

 

[Benco]

Forgetting I've switched off the autofocus is one I've done a few times, maye I should chimp more.

 

[snowbear]

Not photo related but I had to give a presentation to the County's IT board - department heads & deputy Admin. Officer. I put the disk containing the Power Point in the laptop, and was going through it as best as I could (I'm not a good public speaker). At one point I looked up and saw by bullet fonts were all wonky. The font I used to build the PP was not installed on that laptop so my bullets were question marks or something.

 

[squirrels]

I get intimidated by the folks at the local camera store and lose all of my camera related lingo. I got flustered and said "SDLR" this week when I went, twice before I got it right. :er:

 

[squirrels]

Forgetting I've switched off the autofocus is one I've done a few times, maye I should chimp more.

I do that all the time too. Saw a thread recently that was calling MF "mega-focus" as a joke so now I just say that to cheer myself up.

 

[snowbear]

I get intimidated by the folks at the local camera store and lose all of my camera related lingo. I got flustered and said "SDLR" this week when I went, twice before I got it right. :er:

That's better than getting tongue-tied on the radio (I was a police dispatcher for a few years); in sending an officer to the hospital to take a report, and trying to tell him to see the "duty nurse" . . . kept coming out "dirty nurse"! After three tries I just said "See last name Henderson."

 

[cgipson1]

Not photo related but I had to give a presentation to the County's IT board - department heads & deputy Admin. Officer. I put the disk containing the Power Point in the laptop, and was going through it as best as I could (I'm not a good public speaker). At one point I looked up and saw by bullet fonts were all wonky. The font I used to build the PP was not installed on that laptop so my bullets were question marks or something.

Now that is a geek thing... they probably didn't even notice! lol!

 

[Benco]

Not photo related but I had to give a presentation to the County's IT board - department heads & deputy Admin. Officer. I put the disk containing the Power Point in the laptop, and was going through it as best as I could (I'm not a good public speaker). At one point I looked up and saw by bullet fonts were all wonky. The font I used to build the PP was not installed on that laptop so my bullets were question marks or something.

Ah yes, PP presentations, my wife has to do quite a few of those in her work, her ultimate nightmare is standing up to talk and finding the presentation is corrupted/missing (she usually has at least two memory sticks with it on).

 

[480sparky]

This must be a Nikon thing or I have been screwing up for a long time because I still don't get what your talking about.

Nikon's full-frame DSLRs have the ability to shoot in "DX Mode", meaning only a portion of the sensor is used to create the image.

They can be set three ways:
FX Mode, which will use the entire sensor regardless of whether there's a DX lens attached or not,
DX Mode, which will use the center portion of the sensor regardless of whether there's a DX lens attached or not,
DX Auto Mode, which will allow the camera to sense the presence of a DX-format lens and change from FX to DX mode automatically.

The only change you would see in the viewfinder is a black rectangle appears when the camera is in DX Mode. What oldhippy did was set the camera to DX Mode (not the Auto version), and shot in that mode. He was basically seeing an FX image in the viewfinder, but the camera, being set to DX, only recorded the center portion of the sensor.

Because of the possibility of doing something exactly like what oldhippy did, I have gotten into the habit of returning my cameras to what I call a "Ready State" when I'm done shooting. Any settings I changed to take the shot(s) are undone, and when the camera is not being used, it is ALWAYS set to the same settings.

This way, I know exactly how the camera is configured when I pick it up next time. Right now, since I'm not shooting anything, both my D600s are sitting in this 'Ready State", both set up with the same settings (save for one will record images with a D61 prefix, the other D62).

 

[Stevepwns]

On my sony the movie button is too easy to hit by accident, Im always looking through the viewfinder trying to take pics while its filming my foul language complaining about the video button.

 

[DarkShadow]

I use to have a boring security officer job in a law school where college students would have bicycle's to get around campus.Once I watched a few students chain there bikes in the bike rack through the front wheel of a quick release front tire system.I brought it to there attention that a thief could just release the lever and take the bike and get a cheap rime and tire and pawn it off or keep it.Some of the students looked at me like I had no clue what I was talking about and walked off. one guy and one girl actually listen and put the chain lock through the frame.A few days later one of the few students that looked at me as I had no clue, his bike was stolen and it was not a huffy it was a higher end cannondale. Of course I was asked if I seen anything,Nope not my job to babysit a bike rack but just to check Id coming in the front entrance.The bike's where located in a different location altogether.All the intelligence in the world but no common sense what so ever.

 

[DBA]

Forgetting I've switched off the autofocus is one I've done a few times, maye I should chimp more.

I've done that. Was doing a private [motocross] shoot that started with video and then switched over to some corner shots. It just so happened that the focus was pretty much where it was supposed to be, however something was just off about the images. After calling a little time out to attempt to figure out what was going on, I found the AF switch in M. :blushing: