F*$#@&G CAMERAS!!

Does anyone else get DSLR tourettes syndrome when all goes kooey kaffooey on a shoot??

I have just had profanity laden rant!!!

If I had a pound for every profanity I have heaped upon myself I'd be rich, not so much so for things external to me. One notable exception is car park pay machines that won't work properly (also usually my fault - or so Mrs Wozhere tells me).

After acquiring a lifetime's evidence for the truth of Murphy's Law (i.e. if anything can go wrong, it will), my starting point is that something probably will go wrong so just be pleased if it doesn't. So even when some kit doesn't work, the bug or bird moves just as the shutter button is pressed, the battery dies at a crucial moment, a fine day turns wet and miserable or I've been incredibly stupid, I'm always content and at peace with myself and the world. Well, perhaps not always...

Steve

To be honest, most are due to my operator error.

A few years back I drove all the way from Edinburgh to the RSPB site just north of Aviemore, and it was only when first turning on the camera I found that I'd forgotten to bring a memory card.

My pet peeve is when the Af bunces about on what looks a routine shot, ad the subject flies/runs away before the AF gets its act together.

AF issues would be my single biggest peeve with a dslr, and would be the main reason I’d consider mirrorless. The number of times my subject is front or back focussed and has ruined my shot. Eye AF would be especially handy with the sensor seeing the actual lens focus and adjusting instead of needing calibration definitely appeals.

Other than that Pentax has almost never let me down other than the k-30 aperture failure. The k-3 has ample configuration to control the auto features such as preferring a faster shutter speed in Av or TAv modes etc.

One reason I love having double SD card slots... This used to be such as problem that my wife took to carrying a spare SD card in her handbag in case I had (yet again) left mine in the computer.

Been there done that with memory card. Spent 3 hours at Woodcote Steam Rally, loads of photos, only to discover card flap open and no card! Frantic search in grassy field trying to remember where I`d stood, gave up, went home to find memory card still in computer!
I`d also like to know who goes around changing all my photos. I take what I think are good shots only to get home and find they`ve changed when I put them on the computer, and are not what I took!
John

My worst was arriving at a client site ready to take photographs as part of the job .... yikes, no camera at all!!
Fortunately my phone was good enough for the job - just.
How did I come to forget the camera - my wife puts it down to age !! I couldn't possibly comment.