FB101
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That's definitely a nice save!
Don't do what I did...
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That's definitely a nice save!
Thanks. I fired off several shots of this particular buck as it was standing there. This one was the darkest (least overexposed) of the group. It was starting to snow and the light was variable. This one seemed a little closer so I chose it as the one to try to salvage. Took a little work to get it to this point. Given these are not my best effort (read won't be on my 2022 calendar... ) I didn't spend any more time on it.
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kenafein
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Yeah, either exposure compensation off or I've reduced the shutter speed to get a stationary target at lower ISO and then a BIF opportunity presents itself and I'm shooting at 1/640.
So, how can this be prevented? What is the secret to checking and adjusting exposure compensation? The little +- shows in the viewfinder and will show the compensation amount if the compensation button is pressed and it can be added to the iMenu on the Z series, but you have to pay attention to those indicators. Wouldn't it be great if the viewfinder showed the exposure settings in one color if the exposure compensation was a positive value and a different color if the value was negative. The exposure values are things I pay a lot of attention to and not so much the other settings. The Z6 can show viewfinder settings in color but I don't believe my D500 can display viewfinder settings in color.
me too and I’ll add that I have also failed to reset from “bracketing” back when I shot film with my F5, At least in those cases, I got 1 out 3 or 1 out of 5 properly exposed. Of course there was no PS back then either to salvage the others.
Doug Herr
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If using mirrorless, set the viewfinder to exposure preview. Gross exposure errors will be in-your-face obvious instantly.
JANuser
Active member
Also on mirrorless, and some DSLRs (D750/D780) use the U1, U2, or U3 modes. It will reset everything to your saved settings when you change modes or turn the camera off.
This is a whole lot better thing to have happen to you than having your film not engage properly in the advance mechanism. I remember what a sinking feeling it was when my camera's exposure counter got to about 3 exposures more than the film canister size...
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JANuser
Active member
Or having the manual film winder fall off on old manual cameras, forcing you to open the back up and expose your exposed film to light, because there is no way to fix the thing without opening the back.
Been there, done that as the saying goes....my "favourite" blunder is to forget to switch from time delay mode back to continuous mode after use. I have the time delay set to 5s delay then a series of 2 shots with 2 seconds between, so when I forget to reset it, I press the shutter and nothing happens, until I usually get a couple of pictures of the ground, generally out of focus, much to the amusement of anyone nearby.
Aaaargh
Aaaargh
That turned out REALLY good!
Oh man, you make bells ringin' in my head. I DOn't know how often I had things like this. A couple of day ago I was taking landscapes with dead trees in a moor with lots of sky. A day later I ended up with originally grey birds looking like coming out of a coal mine an hour after sunset .
Until recently my trick was to use the user mode settings of my D750 and D7200 (gladly they work the way they should at least in these models). So, after leaving a situation where I had to do heavy adjustments I simply did one wheel click forward, one click backward and everything was to 0 again. Now, as I am using a one of the pro bodies as wel, I have to learn the discipline, because they don't have user modes and I have to remember to reset everything manually. Let's see how long it takes until I find a bleached deer or another black painted creature on my memory card because of forgetting to do the reset exercise.
As long as it doesn't get that far out that you can't rescue the image anymore it just needs a bit of patience during post. If it doe, the only way is phoning the animal asking for another appointment ...
.Until recently my trick was to use the user mode settings of my D750 and D7200 (gladly they work the way they should at least in these models). So, after leaving a situation where I had to do heavy adjustments I simply did one wheel click forward, one click backward and everything was to 0 again. Now, as I am using a one of the pro bodies as wel, I have to learn the discipline, because they don't have user modes and I have to remember to reset everything manually. Let's see how long it takes until I find a bleached deer or another black painted creature on my memory card because of forgetting to do the reset exercise.
As long as it doesn't get that far out that you can't rescue the image anymore it just needs a bit of patience during post. If it doe, the only way is phoning the animal asking for another appointment ...
I think I have done all of the above at some point! I've gotten better, but....
MikEm13
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Reading this has made me go and check my camera to make sure I'm at 0.
Joe
Member
You're not alone, I do that every now and then.
DallasP
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Maybe camera makers could take pity and allow us the option of an auto-reset after an operator-chosen interval, say, five minutes. Judging by the deep murmur of commiseration here, many would choose such an option.
Pistnbroke
Active member
"DONT DO WHAT I DID"
Quite right don't title a post with something that gives no indication of what the content is. This is not UHH (yet)
Quite right don't title a post with something that gives no indication of what the content is. This is not UHH (yet)
BruceJ
Member
Been there done that. My worst mistake is putting the camera away EC not reset and the next time I take it out forget to check that before starting to shoot.
Yeees, I've done it too!
Been there, done that! Sadly did not learn the first, second, third..... times.
How about a firmware update so when you lift the camera it wispers "Sure you need +1.3"? I know I need it
Always use to check the windup spool to make sure it was turning as I advanced the film. Just like you I learned the hard way.This is a whole lot better thing to have happen to you than having your film not engage properly in the advance mechanism. I remember what a sinking feeling it was when my camera's exposure counter got to about 3 exposures more than the film canister size...
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Never had that problem but back around 1980 I was out with my girlfriend at the time (yes she ended up marrying me and we're still happily married, what a miracle that is) taking some photos of interesting cloud formations during one of those "sky on fire" sunsets. The magic lasted only a few minutes and I was firing away. I dropped her off, went home and started to unwind the film back to the canister so I could drop my precious Kodachrome off the next day to be developed. Only to realize there was no film in the camera. In the excitement of the sunset, I forgot to load film and equally forgot that I had finished off the prior roll the day before.This is a whole lot better thing to have happen to you than having your film not engage properly in the advance mechanism. I remember what a sinking feeling it was when my camera's exposure counter got to about 3 exposures more than the film canister size...
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Now, I can blame age (60) but in 1980, I was young.