Photography Fails

• Ordered the FE 24-70 F4 at an unreasonably low price. I admired the nice blue Zeiss badge on the side and the silky smooth zoom ring; however, once I started shooting with I felt that something was wrong. 70 didn't feel like 70, 24 didn't feel like 24, and the zoom kept on rotating down to 17mm! I realized I ordered the E 16-70 F4 accidentally. B&H graciously accepted my return.

• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

JamesJimmy said:

How about a thread discussion various photographic failures. Here's a couple of recent ones for me.

• Ordered the FE 24-70 F4 at an unreasonably low price. I admired the nice blue Zeiss badge on the side and the silky smooth zoom ring; however, once I started shooting with I felt that something was wrong. 70 didn't feel like 70, 24 didn't feel like 24, and the zoom kept on rotating down to 17mm! I realized I ordered the E 16-70 F4 accidentally. B&H graciously accepted my return.

• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

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JamesJimmy said:

How about a thread discussion various photographic failures. Here's a couple of recent ones for me.

• Ordered the FE 24-70 F4 at an unreasonably low price. I admired the nice blue Zeiss badge on the side and the silky smooth zoom ring; however, once I started shooting with I felt that something was wrong. 70 didn't feel like 70, 24 didn't feel like 24, and the zoom kept on rotating down to 17mm! I realized I ordered the E 16-70 F4 accidentally. B&H graciously accepted my return.

• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

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JamesJimmy said:

How about a thread discussion various photographic failures. Here's a couple of recent ones for me.

• Ordered the FE 24-70 F4 at an unreasonably low price. I admired the nice blue Zeiss badge on the side and the silky smooth zoom ring; however, once I started shooting with I felt that something was wrong. 70 didn't feel like 70, 24 didn't feel like 24, and the zoom kept on rotating down to 17mm! I realized I ordered the E 16-70 F4 accidentally. B&H graciously accepted my return.

• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

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superchalupa said:

JamesJimmy said:

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• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

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I noticed that if you switch the dial to Movie mode, you can separately control super-35 mode, if that helps. Yes, it sucks to have to move the dial, but it's what I do as a workaround.

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papillon_65 said:

Take your camera out minus a memory card or battery then we'll talk.

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sean lancaster said:

A few years back, I was walking around early on a Saturday morning downtown. It was empty. I saw a guy with blue hair who looked familiar. He went off to get lunch and so did I. I came out just as he walked back by and I figured out that he was Flea, from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I asked to take a selfie and the image below is the result.

My fail is that I only shoot RAW. To help with focus peaking, I had shifted the photo style to B&W, so the focus peaking would be easier to see and I'd still get color photos by shooting only RAW. Well, during lunch I was fiddling and somehow shifted from RAW to low quality JPG, so that meant the B&W creative style became my default (so no blue hair). Also, I had it set to f/1.8 with the Sony Zeiss 24/1.8, which was terrible for the shot given the fact that we were on 2 different planes. Anyway, here is my fail:



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papillon_65 said:

JamesJimmy said:

How about a thread discussion various photographic failures. Here's a couple of recent ones for me.

• Ordered the FE 24-70 F4 at an unreasonably low price. I admired the nice blue Zeiss badge on the side and the silky smooth zoom ring; however, once I started shooting with I felt that something was wrong. 70 didn't feel like 70, 24 didn't feel like 24, and the zoom kept on rotating down to 17mm! I realized I ordered the E 16-70 F4 accidentally. B&H graciously accepted my return.

• Recently I shot prom pictures and noticed that my FE 55 F1.8 and my FE 35 F2.8 results were not as good as I was expecting. I looked at the EXIFs and saw the files were 18 Mpixels instead of the 42 that I was expecting. I had put it into APS-C mode for Super 35 UHD video and forgot to switch it back! Why doesn't the camera have separate settings for photography and video?

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Take your camera out minus a memory card or battery then we'll talk.

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JamesJimmy said:

papillon_65 said:

Take your camera out minus a memory card or battery then we'll talk.

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Good one. I've done that a few times too.

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• the classic: shooting landscape after shooting available light: ISO 3200. for about 50 shots. On a 20D. Luckily, my landscape shots were really bad at that time, anyway.
• didn't close the compartment zippers on my backpack... two batteries fell into a puddle when opening the backpack in a very awkward way... the view might be funny in the first place... but the smell and the loss of two batteries are not.
• took a 32GB and a 16GB CF card as spares with me - my new camera ran on SD cards only. But, hey, at least i had one SD card in the camera... 4GB
• took my tripod to a nightshot... but no tripod adapter plate (now, whenever i'm unboxing a new camera, i'm loctiting the L-plate to it straight away)
• bored on location, waiting for the right light, i played around with my tripod head's clamp... it fell apart... no tools with me and - 5 minutes later the light turned really great. Always carrying a swiss army knife or leatherman with me now
• bored on location, waiting for the right light, i played around with my tripod head's clamp... changing locations, my camera fell abou 5-6 feet to the ground. Luckily, my lee fillter holder took the blow, some screws bent/broke. Always carrying my kindle with me now, to prevent boredom at all, as bad things happen when i'm bored.
• took about ten square filters with me, but only a disassembled filter holder without screws (the filter holder mentioned above)
• wanted to test print a 10x15cm photo, picked the wrong paper feed... printed it 10x15cm, on some really expensive 17x24 inch paper