Thought my D300 was knackered...

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"Oh no!" I thought to myself. Every photo I took was coming out wrong: way underexposed... then I would adjust the exposure compensation... ah, not too bad now... then next shot was totally blown out... then underexposed again:eek:

After a lot of head-scratching > :thinking: < I figured out I had managed to turn on the bracketing function:bang:

A big relief, and a lesson learned:)

John
 
crieffy said:
:'(

"Oh no!" I thought to myself. Every photo I took was coming out wrong: way underexposed... then I would adjust the exposure compensation... ah, not too bad now... then next shot was totally blown out... then underexposed again:eek:

After a lot of head-scratching > :thinking: < I figured out I had managed to turn on the bracketing function:bang:

A big relief, and a lesson learned:)

John
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:lol::lol::lol:


When I finally went Digi with a D100 I did something similar, thankfully only on a family holiday though

I'd accidentally dialled in -2 stops exp comp and (being a bloke) didn't read or take the manual with me; took me about an hour of swearing and bewilderment to realise

:D

DD
 
:lol:
 
Good God man, how could you have called yourself a pro if you had taken AND read the manual?;):p
 
I have done the very same thing, so that is three ejuts who have confessed,any more?...........:lol:
 
I still do that once in a while :p, annoys the heck out of me everytime I get these odd exposures.
 
I quite often forget to take bracketing off - I wish you could set it so that it would auto turn off bracketing after you have fired off the set.
 
Foggy said:
I quite often forget to take bracketing off - I wish you could set it so that it would auto turn off bracketing after you have fired off the set.
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.. or whenver you turn off the camera!
 
I was playing with my Sony A700 settings a couple of weeks ago and forund a setting that set the bask thumb wheel to be "exposure compensation" when in Aperture or shutter priority (It has two wheels that usually do the same thing).

Being an idiot, I forgot all about it and every time I put the camera to my eye I had nudged it and the the exposure was out.

It drove me up the wall for three days!
 
Well, that's not really bad mate.
Last year my ex went to her annual trip with her parents. This year her brother decided to come along. it was a 2 week trip going to Dubai, Malaisia, Singapure. Her father asked me what kind of camera he should buy from there, and, considering his needs, i told him to get the Canon S5 IS, which he did. On the second week, the brother was fiddling with the camera, which his father had put in Greek menus, and he sees an option saying "diamorfosis", which in greek it means a complete change. Curiusly enough, he presses the button. What he didn't know is that the smart guys in canon used an english-greek dictionary, and when they tried to find the greek word for "format", they used this ambiguous one!
Needless to say, almost 4GB worth of jpegs were lost, and I receive a phonecall from the jungle in Malaisia. I told them to take the SD out of the camera, put it somewhere safe and buy a new one for the rest of the trip. i did manage to save 99% of the photos when they came back, but the father looked 10 years older than he did before leaving for the trip:p
 
I thought my 50mm F1.8 was buggered...all blurry!

Was the dioptre setting next to the viewfinder had got turned!!

By the way... I used to use that by focusing on a distant tree.. with autofocus and turning the dioptre to make it the sharpest it can be.

Just read you should be looking at the writing at the bottom of your viewfinder (settings etc) and get THAT stuff clearest. :shrug:
 
Never done it. However I've yet to figure out how to switch the bracketing on, so its not a prob really. :shrug:

Andy
 
Janice said:
Just read you should be looking at the writing at the bottom of your viewfinder (settings etc) and get THAT stuff clearest. :shrug:
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I do this when I put a DK-17m on a D700, I make sure the VF info is sharp.
 
I took my 40d out of my bag once at a gig. Got it all set up and turned it off. When i turned it on, it had reset all the settings, so i changed them all to what i wanted and turned it off and on again with the same results. I was going nuts, couldnt work out what was wrong with it, went through all the menus and everything and then realised.........


















..... the camera had been switched to one of the custom modes instead of being in manual! :lol:
 
My manageress (Dawn B on here) was at a zoo and had gone into the cafe for a coffee. On the table next to her was a man really cursing Nikon and the D300 which he had bought the day before. He had taken it out of the box and tried switching it on and nothing happened, so he blamed his wife saying he should have bought a Cannon camera as he first intended.
It got so bad that his wife actually left the cafe.
So my manageress asked if she could have a look at it,he did ask if she knew much about cameras and she said that she had had a play with my D200.
He handed over the camera and my manageress had a look and asked if he had charged up the battery? yes or course he had the night before was the taunt reply.

Very politely she said well it might actually help if you put the battery back in the camera, he had left it out.

I will leave you to imagine what went next other to say there was a very very red face.

Realspeed
 
Andysnap said:
Never done it. However I've yet to figure out how to switch the bracketing on, so its not a prob really. :shrug:

Andy
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:lol: Had that problem too first time I took the D300 out, went to press the bracket button and of course, on came the LCd...EH?!?! :thinking: turned the camera round, looked at all the bottons, nothing....C**P! Got home, got the manual out...ahhhh.....they moved it to the front. Ergonomically its massively better than the D200 but if you don't know its there.... :bonk:
 
Many moons ago I had a Nikon 8700 which had all sorts of strange picture modes. I remember photographing someone doing demo runs in a Ford Focus rally car and being impressed at how many fps I seemed to be getting. When I got home it turned out it was set on some mode that took something like a dozen tiny (I mean like 0.7mp) pictures instead of one normal 8mp one.

I think the biggest image size I could get was about 320 pixels on the longest side :bonk:
 
Yv said:
:lol: Had that problem too first time I took the D300 out, went to press the bracket button and of course, on came the LCd...EH?!?! :thinking: turned the camera round, looked at all the bottons, nothing....C**P! Got home, got the manual out...ahhhh.....they moved it to the front. Ergonomically its massively better than the D200 but if you don't know its there.... :bonk:
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Yeah and on the D50 (which I bought to back up my D80) the delete and enter buttons are helpfully transposed :lol:
 
thought it was just me last week I took a load of shots at the butterfly house and couldnt figure out why they were all dark
I had the bracketing on minus 1 2/3 :D
luckily the butterfly had not moved so was able to take them again:)
 
Ha, done the bracketing thing a few times with my D300 also I have fallen foul of the auto iso feature too but if I dont use my camera for a few weeks I forget all of the function buttons anyway, must be my age lol.
 
stylgeo said:
Well, that's not really bad mate.
Last year my ex went to her annual trip with her parents. This year her brother decided to come along. it was a 2 week trip going to Dubai, Malaisia, Singapure. Her father asked me what kind of camera he should buy from there, and, considering his needs, i told him to get the Canon S5 IS, which he did. On the second week, the brother was fiddling with the camera, which his father had put in Greek menus, and he sees an option saying "diamorfosis", which in greek it means a complete change. Curiusly enough, he presses the button. What he didn't know is that the smart guys in canon used an english-greek dictionary, and when they tried to find the greek word for "format", they used this ambiguous one!
Needless to say, almost 4GB worth of jpegs were lost, and I receive a phonecall from the jungle in Malaisia. I told them to take the SD out of the camera, put it somewhere safe and buy a new one for the rest of the trip. i did manage to save 99% of the photos when they came back, but the father looked 10 years older than he did before leaving for the trip......and the brother has never be seen nor heard from since.
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Just finished off your story - you left the forum hanging in suspense for the past 4 years and a bit. :D
 
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Holy thread revival!

I will confess to the bracketing and EV comp foul ups on my D90 which is also sometimes compounded by picking up the D40 thinking it is the D90, flicking the wheel and moaning about it not changing the aperture........


Heather
 
Wail said:
.. or whenver you turn off the camera!
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Funny how tech has almost taken a step back, all of my AF film SLR's turn off bracketing, multi-exposure etc when you turn them off and on one of them you can set a custom function to reset exposure compensation as well!
 
I bought a camera from someone on here and had a very frustrating couple of hours wondering why the damn thing wouldnt focus when the shutter button was pressed , until it dawned on me that they'd set it up for back button focus

restore factory defaults, et voila one working camera :bonk:
 
When I first got into photography and bought my D80 I decided to get some lessons with a pro who advertised, help for beginners and intermediates. First lesson and my shots were all coming out dark and the shutter seemed slow. I had no idea in fact I had just about learned how to turn it on. I asked him what could be the problem, he looked at my camera and then declared he had no idea as he used a Canon! It was in fact the bracketing which I had inadvertently moved to -2
 
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