Photography Confessions

photolady95 · 04-22-2018, 04:07 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by timw4mail

I'm sure there's a lot of those kind of in-actions.

Like the dolphin that came up in front of the yacht, and I was looking at a Snowy Egret.

**Bob 256** · 04-22-2018, 07:29 PM - **1 Like**

Told this one in another thread a few weeks back - went to transfer some files from my JPEG card to my laptop and they were GONE!!! I had read another post earlier that dealt with missing SD card files so I was sure I had the same issues. Then I went to my DNG card to get the files, very disturbed that I would have to convert all of 200 files to JPEG for a person who wanted them that way. When I tried to transfer, the files already existed on my laptop and then it came back in a flash that I had transferred both JPEG and DNG files the day before only when I had done it, I hit CUT instead of COPY for the JPEG files. No files on the SD card - just check some memory circuits to see if they got lost - brain memory

All my files were on the laptop and I was a happy camper.

lesmore49 · 04-22-2018, 09:32 PM - **1 Like**

Back in the 35mm days...around 1979 I think.... I was out at a marsh. I had my film Pentax ES ll with my 'long' distance telephoto attached, which was a 90-230mm lens.

Slowly stalking through the marsh...I came across a Great Blue Heron that had just caught a fish. It was poised to flip the fish ...so that it would travel down the Heron's gullet.... head first and at the perfect moment...with the tail end of the fish sticking out of the Heron's beak...I advanced the film...it wouldn't advance...I had come to end of the 36 frame roll.

In the '80's I rented...for a weekend... a Pentax 6 X 7 body with the 90 mm leaf shutter lens. I was burning through the rolls of film pretty well from sun up to sunset. The first evening I mounted the heavy 6 X 7 and lens on my one and only tripod... a light duty travel tripod. I was just about to click the shutter...when the tripod head broke and head and 6 X 7 body/ lens...slowly...fell forward. Fortunately I was able to grab camera, lens and broken tripod before everything toppled to the ground.

Next morning I went out to the local camera store (remember those ) and bought robust Leitz Tiltall...which I still have and use to this day and I have had absolutely no problem with this tripod.

Dartmoor Dave · 04-23-2018, 11:41 AM - **5 Likes**

In 1989 my aunt gave birth to a baby boy who was not expected to survive for long because of heart problems. He underwent surgery that was at the ragged edge of what was possible in those days, and I shot a roll of Kodachrome 64 of her with him. . . just in case.

It was only when the processed film came back from Kodak a couple of weeks later that I realised that my K1000's meter had still been set to ASA 400 from the last roll of Tri-X that I'd shot, so that the Kodachromes were over two stops underexposed. It was, beyond any doubt, the most gut wrenching photographic screw-up of my life.

The good news is that the baby survived, and that medical science has managed to keep up with him ever since, and that he is now a fit and healthy grown-up who is a good-hearted man in every possible sense of those words. And, thanks to DSLR scanning with a very long exposure, I've now been able to restore those murky old Kodachromes to look the way they should have done at the time.

Modern technology is truly amazing, and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

**Kerrowdown** · 04-23-2018, 02:02 PM - **1 Like**

Not being passionate with my "Ladies" enough.

**ChrisPlatt** · 04-23-2018, 06:23 PM - **2 Likes**

I have bought, sold and bought again the same camera model or lens that just didn't suit me.
Not surprisingly, it was never any better the second time around...

Chris

**mattb123** · 04-23-2018, 09:49 PM - **2 Likes**

I've hurried to a nice location when I see the sky developing into a nice sunset only to realize there is no card in the camera when I try to take a shot.

**jacamar** · 04-24-2018, 08:07 AM - **4 Likes**

Switching lenses back and forth, trying to take telephoto shots using macro settings and vice versa. But one time it did actually work!

Tamron 90mm macro, 1/800, f8

Wasp · 04-27-2018, 03:47 AM - **1 Like**

Dartmoor Dave's underexposed Kodachrome reminded me of a similar experience.

Way back in the eighties, I visited a holiday resort in a remote place. The little tourist shop had a 24 exposure roll of Kodachrome 64 in stock. It was a few months past the expiry date and I got it for a really good price. It went into my bag for future use.

A couple of weeks later I was invited to shoot a rock concert. I used Ektachrome 400, pushed to 800. All went well, except that I ran out of film with a bit of concert left. So the K64 went back into the camera and I could continue shooting. K64 was very ill suited for the purpose. It could not be pushed. But what the heck, I was out of film.

I duly sent off the roll to Kodak for processing. It came back looking very thin. Most frames were underexposed but there were a couple of usable shots. Not too bad a result. I wasn't expecting much anyway. The Ektachrome rolls delivered the goods, anyway.

Accompanying the box of slides was a letter from the Kodak lab, profusely apologizing for the poor results. It was not up to Kodak standards, they said. By way of apology, they sent me a brand new roll of Kodachrome!

**.a.t.** · 05-03-2018, 03:03 PM - **1 Like**

little sins:

Choosing the cheapest polarizing filters I can find.
Spending too much time and money trying find matching caps and cases for old lenses.
Not taking the time to become proficient at post processing digital photos.
Spraying and praying.

big sin:

Not making backup copies of several months of digital photos - and suffering the consequences when my hard drive failed.

timw4mail · 05-03-2018, 03:55 PM

Letting the battery in the grip run down between uses of my K-1.

RookieGuy · 05-14-2018, 06:52 PM - **1 Like**

Mrs. Rookie and I took a Rhine River cruise when I was stationed in Germany. Fairytale land with castles and ruins every 6 feet on both banks. And I didn't load the film right. I "took" probably 40 pics before I realized that.

Photobill · 05-14-2018, 10:53 PM

Taking backup for the backups backup for a simple shoot.

Wasp · 05-15-2018, 09:26 AM

I have been lusting after lenses that I do not need. I now have every 50mm lens in the Pentax M series, except for the f/4 macro, that is. I 'need' one to join the f/1.4, f/1.7 and f/2 in my collection. There is one on sale near me but it is not exactly cheap. The thing is, I already have the A 50mm f/2.8 macro. That means that I cannot justify the M 50mm f/4 macro in any way.

timw4mail · 05-15-2018, 09:39 AM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by Wasp

I have been lusting after lenses that I do not need. I now have every 50mm lens in the Pentax M series, except for the f/4 macro, that is. I 'need' one to join the f/1.4, f/1.7 and f/2 in my collection. There is one on sale near me but it is not exactly cheap. The thing is, I already have the A 50mm f/2.8 macro. That means that I cannot justify the M 50mm f/4 macro in any way.

Do you have another Tessar? There's your justification :P

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04-22-2018, 04:07 PM - 1 Like	#31
photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712	Originally posted by timw4mail I'm sure there's a lot of those kind of in-actions. Like the dolphin that came up in front of the yacht, and I was looking at a Snowy Egret.

04-22-2018, 07:29 PM - 1 Like	#32
Bob 256 Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Idaho Photos: Gallery Posts: 2,377	Told this one in another thread a few weeks back - went to transfer some files from my JPEG card to my laptop and they were GONE!!! I had read another post earlier that dealt with missing SD card files so I was sure I had the same issues. Then I went to my DNG card to get the files, very disturbed that I would have to convert all of 200 files to JPEG for a person who wanted them that way. When I tried to transfer, the files already existed on my laptop and then it came back in a flash that I had transferred both JPEG and DNG files the day before only when I had done it, I hit CUT instead of COPY for the JPEG files. No files on the SD card - just check some memory circuits to see if they got lost - brain memory All my files were on the laptop and I was a happy camper.

04-22-2018, 09:32 PM - 1 Like	#33
lesmore49 Pentaxian Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Western Canada Posts: 12,349	Back in the 35mm days...around 1979 I think.... I was out at a marsh. I had my film Pentax ES ll with my 'long' distance telephoto attached, which was a 90-230mm lens. Slowly stalking through the marsh...I came across a Great Blue Heron that had just caught a fish. It was poised to flip the fish ...so that it would travel down the Heron's gullet.... head first and at the perfect moment...with the tail end of the fish sticking out of the Heron's beak...I advanced the film...it wouldn't advance...I had come to end of the 36 frame roll. In the '80's I rented...for a weekend... a Pentax 6 X 7 body with the 90 mm leaf shutter lens. I was burning through the rolls of film pretty well from sun up to sunset. The first evening I mounted the heavy 6 X 7 and lens on my one and only tripod... a light duty travel tripod. I was just about to click the shutter...when the tripod head broke and head and 6 X 7 body/ lens...slowly...fell forward. Fortunately I was able to grab camera, lens and broken tripod before everything toppled to the ground. Next morning I went out to the local camera store (remember those ) and bought robust Leitz Tiltall...which I still have and use to this day and I have had absolutely no problem with this tripod.

04-23-2018, 11:41 AM - 5 Likes	#34
Dartmoor Dave Pentaxian Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Dartmoor, UK Photos: Gallery Posts: 3,888	In 1989 my aunt gave birth to a baby boy who was not expected to survive for long because of heart problems. He underwent surgery that was at the ragged edge of what was possible in those days, and I shot a roll of Kodachrome 64 of her with him. . . just in case. It was only when the processed film came back from Kodak a couple of weeks later that I realised that my K1000's meter had still been set to ASA 400 from the last roll of Tri-X that I'd shot, so that the Kodachromes were over two stops underexposed. It was, beyond any doubt, the most gut wrenching photographic screw-up of my life. The good news is that the baby survived, and that medical science has managed to keep up with him ever since, and that he is now a fit and healthy grown-up who is a good-hearted man in every possible sense of those words. And, thanks to DSLR scanning with a very long exposure, I've now been able to restore those murky old Kodachromes to look the way they should have done at the time. Modern technology is truly amazing, and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

04-23-2018, 02:02 PM - 1 Like	#35
Kerrowdown PEG Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Highlands of Scotland... "Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand" - William Blake Photos: Gallery Posts: 57,836	Not being passionate with my "Ladies" enough.

04-23-2018, 06:23 PM - 2 Likes	#36
ChrisPlatt Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rockaway Beach NYC Posts: 7,696	I have bought, sold and bought again the same camera model or lens that just didn't suit me. Not surprisingly, it was never any better the second time around... Chris

04-23-2018, 09:49 PM - 2 Likes	#37
mattb123 Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Colorado High Country Photos: Gallery Posts: 10,873	I've hurried to a nice location when I see the sky developing into a nice sunset only to realize there is no card in the camera when I try to take a shot.

04-24-2018, 08:07 AM - 4 Likes	#38
jacamar Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Toronto Photos: Albums Posts: 3,443	Switching lenses back and forth, trying to take telephoto shots using macro settings and vice versa. But one time it did actually work! Tamron 90mm macro, 1/800, f8

04-27-2018, 03:47 AM - 1 Like	#39
Wasp Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Pretoria Photos: Gallery Posts: 4,661	Dartmoor Dave's underexposed Kodachrome reminded me of a similar experience. Way back in the eighties, I visited a holiday resort in a remote place. The little tourist shop had a 24 exposure roll of Kodachrome 64 in stock. It was a few months past the expiry date and I got it for a really good price. It went into my bag for future use. A couple of weeks later I was invited to shoot a rock concert. I used Ektachrome 400, pushed to 800. All went well, except that I ran out of film with a bit of concert left. So the K64 went back into the camera and I could continue shooting. K64 was very ill suited for the purpose. It could not be pushed. But what the heck, I was out of film. I duly sent off the roll to Kodak for processing. It came back looking very thin. Most frames were underexposed but there were a couple of usable shots. Not too bad a result. I wasn't expecting much anyway. The Ektachrome rolls delivered the goods, anyway. Accompanying the box of slides was a letter from the Kodak lab, profusely apologizing for the poor results. It was not up to Kodak standards, they said. By way of apology, they sent me a brand new roll of Kodachrome!

05-03-2018, 03:03 PM - 1 Like	#40
.a.t. Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: yesterday Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,261	little sins: Choosing the cheapest polarizing filters I can find. Spending too much time and money trying find matching caps and cases for old lenses. Not taking the time to become proficient at post processing digital photos. Spraying and praying. big sin: Not making backup copies of several months of digital photos - and suffering the consequences when my hard drive failed.

05-03-2018, 03:55 PM	#41
timw4mail Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Driving a Mirage Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,670 Original Poster	Letting the battery in the grip run down between uses of my K-1.

05-14-2018, 06:52 PM - 1 Like	#42
RookieGuy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Mid Atlantic region Posts: 127	Mrs. Rookie and I took a Rhine River cruise when I was stationed in Germany. Fairytale land with castles and ruins every 6 feet on both banks. And I didn't load the film right. I "took" probably 40 pics before I realized that.

05-14-2018, 10:53 PM	#43
Photobill Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 228	Taking backup for the backups backup for a simple shoot.

05-15-2018, 09:26 AM	#44
Wasp Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Pretoria Photos: Gallery Posts: 4,661	I have been lusting after lenses that I do not need. I now have every 50mm lens in the Pentax M series, except for the f/4 macro, that is. I 'need' one to join the f/1.4, f/1.7 and f/2 in my collection. There is one on sale near me but it is not exactly cheap. The thing is, I already have the A 50mm f/2.8 macro. That means that I cannot justify the M 50mm f/4 macro in any way.

05-15-2018, 09:39 AM - 1 Like	#45
timw4mail Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Driving a Mirage Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,670 Original Poster	Originally posted by Wasp I have been lusting after lenses that I do not need. I now have every 50mm lens in the Pentax M series, except for the f/4 macro, that is. I 'need' one to join the f/1.4, f/1.7 and f/2 in my collection. There is one on sale near me but it is not exactly cheap. The thing is, I already have the A 50mm f/2.8 macro. That means that I cannot justify the M 50mm f/4 macro in any way. Do you have another Tessar? There's your justification :P