Definition of frustration

[Chris Dodkin]

Definition of frustration:

Coming back home after shooting a number of prominent local buildings with your shiny 'new' MF rangefinder, to find the lens cap has been on the whole time!

What a rookie mistake - I'm such a tool


At least I spotted it before sending the film out to be developed and scanned

Would have been a classic CD of images - Carlsbad in the Dark

 

[David Mitchell]

Lol ah well, its a mistake everyone makes at some point, my gf did that when I lent her my D3100, she was like...why is it dark...oh... hopefully it wasn't a 120 film else thats lots of film to waste for not much gain lol

 

[Ralph Thornton]

That's definitely a big time bummer.

 

[Beth Carter]

ouch.

 

[Davie Hudson]

I drove the coast of Northern Ireland without any film in the camera the lady i was with still reminds me of it now that and the night her husband threw me down the stairs ..... happy days

 

[Darren Turner]

what a complete plonker you really are, this is funniest thing i have read in ages

 

[Dave Green]

If you have never done it - your not a real togger yet LMAO!

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Shooting my last wedding and thinking "Blimey there's more light in here than it looks!"

ISO3200 from the day before - Oooops!

Luckily - D700 - shots recoverable - just!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Needless to say the lens cap is now off, and is staying off!

 

[Larry Bolch]

I have heard it said that "you are not really a sailor until you have wiped out a dock with your boat." Perhaps this is the photographic equivalent.

After covering the Daytona 500 race many decades back, I was in the winner's circle getting my final shots. I heard curses of anguish behind me. A shooter was in sore distress and expressing himself most eloquently.

There is no feel of film advancing when shooting a Nikon F with motor drive. If you properly load the film, as you advance to frame #1 the rewind knob will turn backward. Misload the film, you will see no turning of the knob. It was an obsession with shooters way back then—with his exception. He had photographed the whole race on a single frame of film—the film did not advance even to frame #1!

While that was bad, it was only part of the story. A freelancer, Sports Illustrated had flown him from New York City to Daytona Beach more than a week prior. He had been staying at one of the more expensive hotels on their credit card. He would have sold his soul for an exposed roll of film, rather than face an editor with his list of expenses, much less his day-rate without an image to show. His big career break and he blew it.

His bad. He should have made sure the film was advancing by observing the knob. On a roll of 36 exposures, you might get 38, but no more. By the first pit stops, he should have realized that he was getting far better mileage than anyone in the speedway. No way anyone could cover a race on less than half-a-dozen rolls. A single role? Impossible.

Any time there was a caution flag, and the cars had slowed down, I would change my film. It was like shooting with a card that only held 24 or 36 exposures, so you would want to have maximum space if a major pile-up occurred like in the final lap at Talladega yesterday that wiped out 25 cars including 10 of the 12 champion contenders. This is the sort of thing one had to be prepared for. You may notice that it goes on for quite a while, and as a photographer covering it, you see dozens of individual collisions. Each of which can make front-page photographs—very good for job security.

[video=youtube;NIHfsbrBpFU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHfsbrBpFU[/video]

(In spite of $25+ million dollars worth of cars getting their sheet metal bent at 190 mph or so, no one was hurt and the cars will be racing again as soon as next weekend.)

We certainly felt sorry for him, but we too had editors to face.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Genius ... That's up there with me shooting a roll of film in the blad with the paper side forward!
good effort!

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If you have never done it - your not a real togger yet LMAO!

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Shooting my last wedding and thinking "Blimey there's more light in here than it looks!"

ISO3200 from the day before - Oooops!

Luckily - D700 - shots recoverable - just!

Auto ISO was invented for a reason

 

[Pete Askew]

All too easy with a rangefinder, especially one without a meter built in! Another famous examples is Duffy when sent to photography Herbert von Karajan for Vogue using a Leica, as specified by the conductor (a camera he had never used before). He turned up at his house, took the shots and, as he was leaving, the great conductor said, "Mr photographer, is it normal to keep your lens cap on when taking photographs?". The lab covered for him and he returned to shoot the man again, during rehearsals, with the lens cap off (the reason Karajan had specified that a Leica should be used was because it was very quiet and he wasn't expecting Duffy to turn up at his house in the first place but at the rehearsal room).

Creative Review - Duffy in sharp focus

 

[Lesley Jones]

Oh, I'm SO glad I'm not the only one! The most recent one I remember is going all the way up to Edinburgh for the Make Poverty History march (I was serious about the demonstration - the photography was an added bonus). I got so excited about candid shots of the marchers that I forgot to turn the camera on. In those days the OM2n would actually function after a fashion. I had to take myself off to a Portaloo and give myself a stern talking to. Things went a tad better after that

 

[David Mitchell]

Oh, I'm SO glad I'm not the only one! The most recent one I remember is going all the way up to Edinburgh for the Make Poverty History march (I was serious about the demonstration - the photography was an added bonus). I got so excited about candid shots of the marchers that I forgot to turn the camera on. In those days the OM2n would actually function after a fashion. I had to take myself off to a Portaloo and give myself a stern talking to. Things went a tad better after that

You can't turn off a film camera, film camera FTW

 

[Pete Askew]

I can assure you, you can, especially if it has a battery powered meter and an electronically controlled shutter! Many film cameras (eg the Nikon FE) have a single mechanical shutter speed for use when the battery fails but if you don't notice, then getting a correct exposure can be challenging! For example, the Mamiya 7 uses an electronic shutter as does the Fuji GF670. Without a battery or being turned on though they do nothing. OK, you don't need to turn the Fuji on, but you tend to notice if it isn't working as the camera is live once the lens is unfolded. But you can still press the shutter release (which is very, very quiet and if you didn't notice the lack of red numbers in the display, in am area with high ambient noise you may not notice didn't fire) and wind on.

 

[David Mitchell]

I can assure you, you can, especially if it has a battery powered meter and an electronically controlled shutter! Many film cameras (eg the Nikon FE) have a single mechanical shutter speed for use when the battery fails but if you don't notice, then getting a correct exposure can be challenging! For example, the Mamiya 7 uses an electronic shutter as does the Fuji GF670. Without a battery or being turned on though they do nothing. OK, you don't need to turn the Fuji on, but you tend to notice if it isn't working as the camera is live once the lens is unfolded. But you can still press the shutter release (which is very, very quiet and if you didn't notice the lack of red numbers in the display, in am area with high ambient noise you may not notice didn't fire) and wind on.

I see no batteries

 

[Glen Roberts]

A couple of weeks ago I got up early and went to catch the sunrise over Roker Pier at Sunderland. Got out of the car, put camera over shoulder and walked along towards the pier, turned on the camera and the message on screen "No Card"!!!!!!!!!!
I could have cried, I left the card in the card reader and forgot to pick up my spares .

Of course SWMBO had a good laugh about it...

 

[Brian Moore]

Took some cracking shots with my FED 5B last year on Signal Hill as dusk fell and turned the night sky into vivid ribbons of alternating blues and orange. The shots turned out spectacular. In my mind. Around about exposure #39 or 40 I began to suspect something was amiss. Despite the strong sensation of drag in the wind lever,...no film. Can't remember off-hand why I was unable at the time to observe that the spool wasn't turning when I wound on. But hey, I remembered to take the lens cap off!

 

[Pete Askew]

Ah, that subtle difference between a virtual image and a latent image!

 

[Hamish Gill]

A couple of weeks ago I got up early and went to catch the sunrise over Roker Pier at Sunderland. Got out of the car, put camera over shoulder and walked along towards the pier, turned on the camera and the message on screen "No Card"!!!!!!!!!!
I could have cried, I left the card in the card reader and forgot to pick up my spares .

Of course SWMBO had a good laugh about it...

I did that the other week ... took the dogs for a walk out on some commons near me that have some lovely views ... I was a little miffed to find no card in the camera ...

Still, at least with digital (for the most part) the camera tells you when there is no film in instead of allowing you to take lots of shots then kicking you down ...

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I see no batteries

Got any shots to show us from it yet ... ?
My bessa sits on my desk staring at me everyday ... Ive not finished the roll yet ...

 

[David Mitchell]

I have got the first roll developed from both the Bessa and the Kodak Six-20, but need to buy a photo scanner to get them onto PC - im going for the hybrid method. Looking at the even tone of the negative I think they have come out ok (which is good when there are only 8 shots to a roll lol).

I will get them up as soon as possible - ie when I can afford to buy a photo scanner