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ho come on
are all you people that don't turn off realy that lazy?
oh no it's toooo much effort to flick the switch
 
No, not lazy, but the idea that turning the camera off to prevent damage while removing a lens or CF card seems absurd to me. I have yet to see any documented damage done to any piece of equipment by removing it while the camera was on, and will continue to leave it on until I see otherwise.

Not to mention, who here has missed a shot because their camera was off?

Rory
 
KenD100 said:
Always off for change lenses.

I know that sensor CMOS or CCD can take dust when it ON.

LIKE your tv on, it can get dust or dirt on screen later.

Will you wipe out on tv when it ON?? DOUBT IT. ha
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That's a myth the voltage in your camera is not anywhere near the high voltage in a traditional TV with a glass CRT. Who told you that one?
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In the spirit of Occam’s Razor one should embrace the less complicated formulation or simply put, less is more.
http://standavidson.com/post/Birds
 
do you have insurance?
why?
is there proof that you are going to crash your car tomorrow?
 
Every time anything new is attached to the camera (lens, flash, battery, card, etc.).
 
Yes, I have insurance, it would be foolish for me to not have at for my line of work. I have insurance for the things which pose an actually threat of damage to my equipment. In the 6 years that I have been shooting digital, I have never had a problem with anything purported to be caused by removing a lens/CF card while the camera is on. No I do not have proof that I am going to crash my car tomorrow, nor have I ever seen proof that changing lenses while the camera causes any problems.

By the way, it would have made more sense if you had said, 'Do you have any proof that you're NOT going to crash your car tomorrow?'

Rory
 
I forgot once and took a lens off. While I was putting on the new one I heard a strange sound and saw the lens srart to focus and I freaked out. Now I look Every time !
PhotoGo said:
While you're switching lenses?

I use a lot of prime lenses so I'm constantly switching lenses
sometimes I don't have time or forget to do everything by the book.
So for it hasn't harmed my cameras.

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PhotoGo
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OK you can leave your $2000 dollar camera on, while the contacts move around across the electronics and make unnecessary and uncontrolled contact with other components becuase you don't want to flick it off first.

I bet you leave it screwed into the tripod too and lift up the legs on the tripod and carry it around connected to the tripod while you walk around with it too right ?

Listen when it falls to the ground or shorts out let us know OK :)
rodrisco said:
No, not lazy, but the idea that turning the camera off to prevent
damage while removing a lens or CF card seems absurd to me. I have
yet to see any documented damage done to any piece of equipment by
removing it while the camera was on, and will continue to leave it on
until I see otherwise.

Not to mention, who here has missed a shot because their camera was off?

Rory
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Yes, I use a camera strap, I can't carry two bodies without a camera strap, it just wouldn't work. I rarely use a tripod.

If I have any problems, not that I expect to because I haven't had any for the last 6 years, I'll let you know, but don't hold your breath. I would hate for anyone turn blue from asphyxiation waiting for something which won't happen.

Rory
 
I never turn mine off when changing anything and have zero problems. I can see the logic, but I also know that Nikon would have been very foolish not to account for this somewhere in the works, and peoples' experience seems to bear that out.

All it takes is one belt-and-suspenders guy writing a manual to spoil it for everyone. :-)
 
Belt and suspenders is less secure as each puts additional strain on the other making both more likely to fail.
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Grimble Gromble
 
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