You know, sometimes, when one is tired...

[Stig]

You know those moments, when you are tired, trying to do something anyway and at some point you realize you are not your sharpest...

well, today I was a bit tired, packing my gear, changing lenses... and I almost tried to mount two lenses together luckily, no rear element was harmed making this, erm, story

did you manage something similar, or is it just me?

 

[SwissBear]

... darn! it seems quite like i left the memory card in the laptop...

 

[Ewinter]

I've tried mounting a Lens with the caps still on...

 

[Atonegro]

did you manage something similar, or is it just me?

O Yes...
Not all the time, but it happens once in a while.

Left in a hurry, and when I unpack, I have about eight lenses, my flashes, screens, tripods, remotes.....but not a single camera....

 

[Zen]

did you manage something similar, or is it just me?

O Yes...
Not all the time, but it happens once in a while.

Left in a hurry, and when I unpack, I have about eight lenses, my flashes, screens, tripods, remotes.....but not a single camera....

What a "wake-up" call, eh?

Zen

 

[Jim Saunders]

I haven't done that yet, but I did manage to recently bash my head open on the trunk latch on my car. The fact that I was putting my camera bag in there for safekeeping was just the little insult to add to injury...

Jim

 

[Loswr]

I haven't done that yet, but I did manage to recently bash my head open on the trunk latch on my car. The fact that I was putting my camera bag in there for safekeeping was just the little insult to add to injury...

As long as you didn't bash the camera gear. Your head will heal.....

 

[Loswr]

Back OT, a couple of weeks ago I planned a sunset/evening city photo outing. I packed my camera, four lenses, a 10-stop ND filter, and my tripod. Or so I thought. Turned out I had grabbed the monopod case, instead. Kinda hard to take 1 minute exposures on a monopod.

 

[Jim Saunders]

I haven't done that yet, but I did manage to recently bash my head open on the trunk latch on my car. The fact that I was putting my camera bag in there for safekeeping was just the little insult to add to injury...

As long as you didn't bash the camera gear. Your head will heal.....

My camera is fine, but now I'm left to wonder why there seem to be only 23 characters in the alphabet...

Jim

 

[woollybear]

Turn topic OFF...

I once made myself an ice cream cone at home. Put the cones in the freezer and the ice cream in the cabinet. It was not a pretty site the next morning...

 

[tcmatthews]

Left the batteries for my Canon in the charger at home. Had to take pictures of storks with my Nex and discovered that theE 55-210 is basically a slow POS. None of bird the pictures were usable. Ended up letting my dad have the E55-210 it is not even worth it for traveling.

 

[RAKAMRAK]

did you manage something similar, or is it just me?

O Yes...
Not all the time, but it happens once in a while.

Left in a hurry, and when I unpack, I have about eight lenses, my flashes, screens, tripods, remotes.....but not a single camera....

Since you had screens etc with you I guess you were on an assignment of some kind. May we know what you did after that....... I mean after you found you did not bring a single camera......!!

 

[rpt]

Dismounted my 5D3 from tripod and forgot to hold it! Crash! Luckily it fell into soft dry mud and leaves. Missed a rock by a couple of inches! No harm done to the camera or the 24-105. Severe bruising to the ego which is on the mend. Every time I dismount the camera, that scene flashes past in my head. I guess I should be fine in a few years time. Neuro said that the head would mend and I am hoping it was not the tripod he was talking about

 

[Atonegro]

did you manage something similar, or is it just me?

O Yes...
Not all the time, but it happens once in a while.

Left in a hurry, and when I unpack, I have about eight lenses, my flashes, screens, tripods, remotes.....but not a single camera....

Since you had screens etc with you I guess you were on an assignment of some kind. May we know what you did after that....... I mean after you found you did not bring a single camera......!!

I was lucky, it was not far from home.
I explained, hurried back and 40 minutes later we started work.

 

[Atonegro]

Once I was on a boat, and bend over to grab a buoy, and my camera on my neckstrap was underwater....
The camera was OK, but the lens did not survive.

 

[Kernuak]

Back OT, a couple of weeks ago I planned a sunset/evening city photo outing. I packed my camera, four lenses, a 10-stop ND filter, and my tripod. Or so I thought. Turned out I had grabbed the monopod case, instead. Kinda hard to take 1 minute exposures on a monopod.

I did something similar, I packed camera, lenses and tripod, but left the quick release plate behind, which was normally attached to the camera. I tried balancing the camera on top of the tripod head, but I missed some really good shots of mist and ice that evening, they just weren't sharp.

 

[Viggo]

Way back in the days I used to shoot droplet-shots in the kitchen sink, on a monopod, suddenly got a good one, and placed my camera on the monopod and ran for the computer to check it out, I heard a slow scraping noise as the monopod hit my kitchenbench and slided off to the floor, I grabbed 10 cm from the floor, lucky reaction...

I also once or twice left my Black Rapid strap at home, resulting in a walkabout with the 1dx+70-200 in my hand only.

 

[tron]

Back in the 80s I had a Konica AutoReflex TC with a 40mm and a 70-200 Sigma Zoom.

The zoom was in its hard case and in a bag. I was running to catch up the bus paying extra attention not to loose my jacket because in a previous similar case I had dropped - and lost - my jacket.

Suddenly someone says that I had dropped a bag and an old lady had grabbed it and left in a hurry!

Well she got my Sigma with a Konica mount which I am pretty sure would not know what to do with!

The result: A friend from the work suggested to switch to Canon ...

 

[sanj]

I married.

 

[Viggo]

I married.

;D ;D