Dumb thing you did in 2022?

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Chris K said:
Seems like the standard goof is forgetting chargers, huh? I went for a trip with just my XPro2 and one battery, knowing that I could recharge the camera every night with a standard USB cable like all my other Fuji bodies. Only problem is the XPro2 won’t charge a battery in this way.

I set the camera to use the OVF and turned off the LCD. Battery life was minuscule, and I had the fun shooting my digital camera like it was a film camera. Made it the whole trip on a half a battery. :)
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Another common one is to forget memory cards. Over the years, I've both borrowed and lent memory cards. I think I've only not gotten the loaner back one time, and that was partly my fault.
 
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Charles Loy said:
Hey @JAS - will the Wasabi batteries still work after the 3 or 3.1 update? Many say Nikon gave the off brands a boot with that firmware updates. I only own Nikon batteries
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I do prefer the Nikon batteries but they were not available and neither was the Nikon charger when I needed it.
 
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According to some, the dumbest thing I did this year was buy a Z9, a 500PF and a 1.4 teleconverter. I cannot travel with it while being the caregiver for my wife of 49 years, and the weather at the duck club has been terrible this year, so I have only gotten a few shots. Why did I buy it then? Because I wanted to. I have one super keeper of my dog Joe that she loves and I shot several hundred photos from my front porch while drinking my morning coffee last summer. I have loved the time I spent learning to use it, over and over, since I forget if I do not use it often enough. I will be 76 tomorrow and in four or five years I will probably have to put Resa in a memory care unit. Then I will travel, assuming I am still on the right side of the grass. I am sure there will be even more incredible cameras available then, but like my 2015 Chevy Silverado, I think I have purchased my last camera.
 
Slipped on a rock & fell back first into a willow thicket. Saved the camera (a1 & 100-400 GM) but on my way down I took the time to wonder what rocks and/or sharp sticks lay in my path. No serious injuries apart from my pride, but I ended up invisible from the road less than 1 meter away and it took several minutes to untangle and extract myself from the bushes.
 
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JAS said:
I do prefer the Nikon batteries but they were not available and neither was the Nikon charger when I needed it.
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You don't have to have the Nikon charger. Any USB charger of 15W or more when plugged directly in to the camera will charge the battery. I never take the battery out to charge it. One of the best new features that came with the Z9 IMO. I also have a 10k mAH battery pack for my phone that works though takes a while.
 
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Here is my dump act. I was coming home from photo'ing rare birds at a state park. I put my 600mm F:4gVR with a D810 on it, I put over my shoulder using the Lens starp. Has I stepped on the one of the 2 concrete stairs the shoulder starp falls down it front of me. I'm shocked. The lens falls and hit the drive then falls back to the concrete steps. The two images are of the nonrepairable camera, The lens still worked but all that was outside of the lens was pushed back into the manual focus ring. The ring was totally locked. It would move at all, However the AF work and I used it the next day. However I did send it to Nikon to repaired. However the camera was different.
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the camera was different.
 
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Larry Shuman said:
Here is my dump act. I was coming home from photo'ing rare birds at a state park. I put my 600mm F:4gVR with a D810 on it, I put over my shoulder using the Lens starp. Has I stepped on the one of the 2 concrete stairs the shoulder starp falls down it front of me. I'm shocked. The lens falls and hit the drive then falls back to the concrete steps. The two images are of the nonrepairable camera, The lens still worked but all that was outside of the lens was pushed back into the manual focus ring. The ring was totally locked. It would move at all, However the AF work and I used it the next day. However I did send it to Nikon to repaired. However the camera was different.View attachment 52079View attachment 52080
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Terrible....it's so easy to make this kind of mistake!
 
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I don’t use my monopod very often for my day job, but, I was at a school covering a volleyball game, removed the monopod to switch lenses, set it down, shot the rest of the game and as soon as the game ended grabbed my Thinktank roller and exited sans monopod. At least, that is the most likely scenario I can come up with after I realized it was missing about two weeks and 10 or 12 schools later.
 
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I did almost the same thing, @BrianBirch. Maybe a week or two ago, went to a local state park known for its waterfall. Had both my monopod for supporting my 200-500mm for any wildlife as I hiked, as well as my tripod for doing slow speed shots of the snow-cover around the falls. Leaned the mono against a tree, put camera on tripod, getting slow SS shots of the falls. Kept moving around...farther and farther from my starting point...suddenly had that feeling I was missing something! Thinking because of the cold and the location, weren't too many other people around. Probably hiked a couple hundred yards back to my starting point, luckily there it was, leaning up the tree!
 
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BrianBirch said:
I don’t use my monopod very often for my day job, but, I was at a school covering a volleyball game, removed the monopod to switch lenses, set it down, shot the rest of the game and as soon as the game ended grabbed my Thinktank roller and exited sans monopod. At least, that is the most likely scenario I can come up with after I realized it was missing about two weeks and 10 or 12 schools later.
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MikeJ said:
I did almost the same thing, @BrianBirch. Maybe a week or two ago, went to a local state park known for its waterfall. Had both my monopod for supporting my 200-500mm for any wildlife as I hiked, as well as my tripod for doing slow speed shots of the snow-cover around the falls. Leaned the mono against a tree, put camera on tripod, getting slow SS shots of the falls. Kept moving around...farther and farther from my starting point...suddenly had that feeling I was missing something! Thinking because of the cold and the location, weren't too many other people around. Probably hiked a couple hundred yards back to my starting point, luckily there it was, leaning up the tree!
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I continue to think that I should put my name and cell phone on every piece of equipment but I never seem to do it! I left a brand new tripod in a hotel lobby once, realized it when I arrived at my destination and called the hotel. Some kind soul had turned it in to the lobby desk...I was lucky.
 
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Viathelens said:
I continue to think that I should put my name and cell phone on every piece of equipment but I never seem to do it!
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That might not be a bad idea! My work uses higher end Honeywell scanners (~$2000 each) for tracking freight, we put stickers on each on one with our company contact info. I can tell a few stories of random people that found them in places they shouldn't be.

Now, our scanners are locked down and pretty useless other than for what we use them for, might be a different story when it comes to higher end photo equipment!
 
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Butlerkid said:
OUCH! (...while I suppress a giggle.....) So glad you didn't get hurt. On a photo tour in China in 2000 3 of us were walking along a street.....when the gal with us just disappeared! She wasn't looking where she was walking and she step into an open drainage/sewage ditch about 2' deep. It was only as wide as her shoulders so she couldn't get out. We had to lift her out. Thankfully she was not hurt, only embarrassed.
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At almost the same time your friend was falling into the sewer I fell into a thermal hot springs or geyser in Yellowstone NP. I was crossing a very large meadow with three other fellas, going to fly fish the Gibbon River. We were about two miles below the Norris Geyser Basin, as I recall.

I mentioned to everyone that the ground was getting very, very swampy and spongy. As soon as I had said that I broke through the surface ground, and plunged into a hot springs/geyser/sinkhole---or whatever the bloody thing was called. The hole was probably three and half to four feet in diameter, I think.

Luckily I fell forward when the ground collapsed and my chest landed on the front of the hole and my arms were on the side of the hole. I couldn't tell for sure if my legs and feet were in the water because I was wearing heavy neoprene waders and sturdy wading boots. But, by the time my friends pulled me out my feet were definitely warmer---but that could have been from the heat and steam (?) in the hole.

We were all lucky that the ground my friends were standing on did not collapse also. Someone had a small flashlight and we estimated the water to be about five or six feet below the surface ground, and there was no telling how deep the water was.

I had left my SLR in the car, and was carrying a small digital point and shoot pocket camera. I would have ruined my SLR, and my chest, if I had been wearing it when I fell chest first onto the side of the hole. I apparently had dropped my rod on the ground when I fell and it was undamaged, so it was a rather lucky day, all things considered.

I just realized that this thread asked for problems from this year so I will just admit that in August I left my GPS on the fender or bumper of my car at a trailhead parking lot and drove away with it on the fender/bumper. It fell off and I've searched and searched and never found it. What is completely embarrassing is that a month earlier I had done the same thing with my hiking staff. Maybe it is true old guys get forgetful but in both cases I was distracted by weather and active kids.
 
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gKhan said:
At almost the same time your friend was falling into the sewer I fell into a thermal hot springs or geyser in Yellowstone NP. I was crossing a very large meadow with three other fellas, going to fly fish the Gibbon River. We were about two miles below the Norris Geyser Basin, as I recall.

I mentioned to everyone that the ground was getting very, very swampy and spongy. As soon as I had said that I broke through the surface ground, and plunged into a hot springs/geyser/sinkhole---or whatever the bloody thing was called. The hole was probably three and half to four feet in diameter, I think.

Luckily I fell forward when the ground collapsed and my chest landed on the front of the hole and my arms were on the side of the hole. I couldn't tell for sure if my legs and feet were in the water because I was wearing heavy neoprene waders and sturdy wading boots. But, by the time my friends pulled me out my feet were definitely warmer---but that could have been from the heat and steam (?) in the hole.

We were all lucky that the ground my friends were standing on did not collapse also. Someone had a small flashlight and we estimated the water to be about five or six feet below the surface ground, and there was no telling how deep the water was.

I had left my SLR in the car, and was carrying a small digital point and shoot pocket camera. I would have ruined my SLR, and my chest, if I had been wearing it when I fell chest first onto the side of the hole. I apparently had dropped my rod on the ground when I fell and it was undamaged, so it was a rather lucky day, all things considered.

I just realized that this thread asked for problems from this year so I will just admit that in August I left my GPS on the fender or bumper of my car at a trailhead parking lot and drove away with it on the fender/bumper. It fell off and I've searched and searched and never found it. What is completely embarrassing is that a month earlier I had done the same thing with my hiking staff. Maybe it is true old guys get forgetful but in both cases I was distracted by weather and active kids.
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YIKES! Glad you didn't get seriously hurt!
 
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