both things were easilty solvable though Edmund.
with Exposure meter, one should have an idea of what a normal exposure under similar circumstances are and be aware of the reading recieved and mentally check it with what is expected. One could also be sure to check the settings of the meter periodically thru the day. Had to do this all the time when doing weddings over 33 years.
Another one that folks would not check is the diopter and the distance settings on the lens and see that the focusing distance was at least in the ball park of the subject to camera distance.
Re sync -- I never changed film in a Hassy mag on the camera and when using 35mm, every time for each format, when using flash and doing a film change, I fired a shot with the mag off the hassy or the door of the 35 mm open and looked to see a circle of light. No circle? check the sync setting. Now, for the dang Mamiya twinlenses? have a camera tech pin the darn thing so it can't be moved. no need for M sync anyway.
MW
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Subject: Re: [Nikon-D50] good and bad days
Yup. Lots of times.
One clever way to ruin a day's work was to set the wrong ASA on your
light meter. Another way to trash a whole day's work was to
accidentally nudge the SYNC switch from X to M, and then shoot all day
with a strobe. After the obscenities, the term was "window glass"; as you
examined the negatives. Another favorite was working in a primitive
darkroom without a lock on the door....someone knocks on the door. You
shout "Don't come in!". All they hear is "...come in." :-(
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:41:45 EDT nwhorselady aol.com writes:
> Just looking for some input to stroke my bruised ego.
>;
> I shot about 100+ exposures today of various subjects, spiders,
> flies what
> have you and the only image I could produce that was semi OK was a
> stupid
> earwig, ewwwww....
> Have any of you had days where you couldn't expose/compose a picture
> even if
> your life depended on it?
> Does it vary by your own mood? I have had days like these before,
> during
> which I usually go back and edit some older pictures LOL
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