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Am I the only one who leaves the lens cap on when taking a long exposure. The only one who thinks he has AF on when in fact it is still set to manual from the last manual shoot, the only one who makes these sort of mistakes

I sure do make stupid mistakes, like leaving the ISO setting unchanged from shooting the evening before... but how can you leave the lens cap on when taking a shot? That's got me baffled!

I Stupidly forgot to reset my iso after upping it in heavy shadows/rainforest on the weekend.

I stupidly also forgot to check it today when heading out.

but the only way the lens cap thingy could happen is if you were taking star trails or something, otherwise you would have to look thru the viewfinder to compose

Steve

Owen I was in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night

owen wrote:... but how can you leave the lens cap on when taking a shot? That's got me baffled!

You haven't met Oneputt ... anything's possible

My worst example is driving specially up to Mt Coo-tha in Brisbane for a night shoot, and taking everything except the tripod base plate.

I forget the ISO on a regular basis

And I've left the tripod base at home.

Am yet to leave a lens cap on though!

I used to forget ISO, but have managed to get into the habit of checking/setting that at the beginning of a shoot.
Lens Cap? I look through the viewfinder when shooting. If putting the camera to my eye with the lens cap on counts, well hey, I am guilty. But trying to shoot with it on... never.

Cheers

Matt

Once at a time I forgot the camera bag with all the bodies at home, while all other lenses and gears in the car and arrived at the shooting places with the distance of 80km.

MattC, forrest is dark, lens cap on is dark, it's hard to tell the difference

Surely, not that dark

OK the story is I was trying for a night sky shot, so I set the camera up before dark, and because I wasn't going to shoot for an hour or so, I left the lens cap on. When the time came to open the shutter is was pitch black and I forgot the cap Doesn't sound quite as bad does it?

Hahahaha. I will give you that one... I can see it happening.

Cheers

Here's a quick lesson in how to add an extra hour to your journey to the airport when travelling OS ....

When I was living in Modesto CA, we were on our way to San Francisco airpoort for a flight to London: I was going to a computer conference to speak, on subjects computer related, of course.

We were halfway to the airport - 90 odd miles away - when I realised that my laptop, in its carry bag, was still at home!

That's a ripper Gary

When I first got my D70, I noticed the exposure thingy flashing in the viewfinder - kept meaning to check it out, finally did a few days later and realised it was set on exposure compensation.

And I have done that thing with the ISO too, I really wish the ISO showed up in the viewfinder.

I have never left the lens cap on. Notwithstanding your explanation ( ), that would be a real rarity with an SLR!!!!!

DionM wrote: My worst example is driving specially up to Mt Coo-tha in Brisbane for a night shoot, and taking everything except the tripod base plate.

That's funny, I did the same thing, drove from Bathurst to the Glasshouse mountains, 15 hours, and forgot my tripod base plate also. The wife laughed, I didn't

But, a bag of rice later I had something that was almost (no where near) as good. Still got some decent shots though.

I've left the lens cap on, I have a tendancy to shoot blind so to speak (not that often but occasionally) so I'm not looking through the view finder to notice the lens cap is on.

Take plenty of shots with incorrect ISO, shutter etc I pass most off as rookie mistakes, I'm slowly learning to check before I shot

I am another contender for the ISO mistake.

I agree that it should be more prominently displayed, I try to get in the habit of reseting it after every session but that as a method is certainly not foolproof

Ed.

Can't recall ever forgetting the lens cap on my SLRs but I've done it on my TLRs. where there was a seperate taking and viewing lens lens cap.

I forget the ISO (or ASA as we called it in the old days) all the time. I guess it is a throw back from the film days. Even forgot to reset it on my Light Meters. I ended up doing a lot of "Push Processing" in those "silver days of yore." <grin>

Bilka