Your favourite mistake...

[oldbag]

heh, i've also been the victim of doing a shoot at the wrong iso - won't be doing that again.

 

[Rojin]

^
Use the on/off switch for the wheel too in future!!!

It was on as for line outs I tend to take the portrait, I soon turned it off though, and kept checking the top lcd all the time!

 

[bigredshark]

I've left my cam on ISO 800 before now, the shots can be a bit noisey, but not unusable....

D200 ain't pretty at high ISO, 800 can be alright sometimes but anything higher is a write off unless you're happy to deal with effect and have no choice (gig photos etc). One of the advantages of the newer Nikon bodies actually, high ISO is greatly improved, particularly on the D3 series but even on the D300(s).

 

[kingo15]

picking up the camera some days

 

[NorthstaNder]

Mine has to be travelling light, down to Ipswich waterfront (about a 30 min walk from my house) and when I went to take my first shot the battery warning light came on and my camera shut down.

Spare batteries were at home

The battery gauge always was poop on the Fuji S6500!

 

[Rojin]

After reviewing yesterdays pics, not setting the micro adjustment correctly on camera after adding a 1.4x TC to the lens can be added to the list

 

[Kainz]

The lens cap... Yes I am one of the guys who yanks out his 450d / 50mm on the way to work after spotting something interesting, switches it on and looks through the view finder - only to see blackness...

 

[mrthingyx]

Doing most of my shooting indoors with my daughter (when I get home in the evening) I have a custom white balance setting or indoor tungsten...

And then the odd weekends where it's sunny and I forget to check... lots of washed out images.

 

[DiG]

On Nikon you can press the two buttons marked with a green dot, which resets most of the day-to-day settings (eg. ISO, white balance, bracketing) to a known state. I do this before every session -- very useful.

Never knew that, unfortuantly it seems to set it to medium quality JPEG as well

 

[Col_M]

I went on a 3 day canoe trip and left my CF cards at home, I wasn't happy We had some pretty awesome rapids and saw lots of wildlife like herons, kingfishers, deer and cormorants too, typical.

Doing most of my shooting indoors with my daughter (when I get home in the evening) I have a custom white balance setting or indoor tungsten...

And then the odd weekends where it's sunny and I forget to check... lots of washed out images.

Shooting in RAW is the answer to that problem as you can change the WB in post processing

 

[3dcandy]

Sleeping with the ex, resulted in my daughter...

Ohhhh you're on about photography mistakes...

 

[mrthingyx]

I went on a 3 day canoe trip and left my CF cards at home, I wasn't happy We had some pretty awesome rapids and saw lots of wildlife like herons, kingfishers, deer and cormorants too, typical.


Shooting in RAW is the answer to that problem as you can change the WB in post processing

Yeah - I do RAW + JPEG, so it's not a catastrophic issue, just really annoying.

 

[markpogo]

Never knew that, unfortuantly it seems to set it to medium quality JPEG as well

At first I also thought it wasn't that useful because it didn't reset to the _exactly_ settings I want. I soon changed my mind though when I began to use it.

The fact that you get to a known state is the important bit. Even if you then have one or two things you always change, it's no problem. I found an advantage is that you can pick up any Nikon (even one that isn't your own) and do this, without the possibility that someone else has modified the 'defaults'. I've found that consistency very useful when hiring/borrowing a camera.