Five Photos!!!! Gone!

[ferider]

More unbelievable is the absence of an icon in the viewfinder for metered (read:modern *and* expensive) RF cameras that indicates the meter is reading total blackness.

Kind of works with the M6, Will.

However, it doesn't tell you when your finger is in the shot :bang:

 

[Sparrow]

:0

I always enjoy that photo 😀

What Roland and Arjay said, and learning from ones mistakes of course 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

I never get past one photo with the lens cap on with my M8... (chimping).

 

[coelacanth]

I never even carry lens caps. They just sit in lens case or box. My solution is good filter and/or hood. Of course then my doh! moment could be burnt shutter curtain instead of missed "decisive moments" though.

 

[squinza]

I don't have problems with lens caps, but I've had my share of shots with a camera strap in the frame...

Or my finger... 😡😡😡

 

[sojournerphoto]

Leave it on AE until you're actually shooting or get an SLR


Funny how we knock digital, but I came back from scotland with over 1400 shots - none had the lens cap on, only 1 missed focus and none were catastrophically badly exposed😉

Mike

 

[sanmich]

Welcome to the club!
Three shots for me. The first and the last ones I missed because of the cap.
(No worries, since then, I have found numerous wonderful and exotic ways to ruin from a single frame to several films at once :bang::bang🙂
I have a graveyard of lens caps somewhere in the house.
I only reach for one if I want to sell a lens.
Meanwhile, a good multi-coated filter + hood.

 

[ndnik]

I never use lens caps. Only hoods; they provide adequate protection. Not having to worry about lens caps when changing lenses also makes that process faster.

In many situations I shoot with preset exposure; I tend to frame and shoot too quickly to be able to notice a meter reading in the viewfinder (if the camera actually even had a meter). So that solution would not work for me.

Although a bit dorky, carrying the camera with the strap around my neck does pretty much ensure that the strap is not in front of the lens ... Alternatively, I carry the camera in one hand with the strap firmly wrapped around my arm.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I never use lens caps. Only hoods; they provide adequate protection. Not having to worry about lens caps when changing lenses also makes that process faster.

In many situations I shoot with preset exposure; I tend to frame and shoot too quickly to be able to notice a meter reading in the viewfinder (if the camera actually even had a meter). So that solution would not work for me.

Although a bit dorky, carrying the camera with the strap around my neck does pretty much ensure that the strap is not in front of the lens ... Alternatively, I carry the camera in one hand with the strap firmly wrapped around my arm.

That's why only dorks think it's dorky to use a neck strap around your neck. I can't think of any professionals who use neck straps any other way. They're to help you carry the camera and take pictures, not to make you look (what dorks think is) cool.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Pherdinand]

On my bessa r3a, the meter is a warning sign when lens cap is on.

In general for my canon 50/1.2 and the summicron 90/2, the lenses are so damn big that i can see the lens cap in the finder.

So... There are ways around the problem 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

What pissed me off personally (to show that i'm also not idiotproofed) was when at the end of the roll there was a... there was no end of the roll. Took five clicks above 36 to realize that i'm still at frame 0.
Luckily i could go back to do it again, but there were a few shots that I missed that included people who did not go back for my sake...

 

[ndnik]

That's why only dorks think it's dorky to use a neck strap around your neck.

True. But, now that I confessed to finding it a bit dorky but also to doing it (neck strap around my neck), am I a dork myself? ;-)

Need a glass of whisky to think about it all.

 

[segedi]

I never use lens caps.
Only lens hood and UV filter.

If i have to 'cap' it, i use OpTech's neoprene lens cover - too bulky to miss 🙂

I second that! I got 4 of these recently. Really evident in the viewfinder, nice protection for the lens.

 

[shadowfox]

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Kind of works with the M6, Will.

It does? I never used a metered Leica, so I don't know.

But if the meter gives some indication, how does the above scenario (yes, the photo) happen? that doesn't look like an old meter-less Leica M to me.

 

[ferider]

Probably has the camera in replay mode ? Plus, we just learned, she's a dork (neck strap not around her neck) 🙂

 

[newspaperguy]

On the other hand.... how about burning holes in your shutter curtains
because you DIDN'T have a lens cap on. Take your choice, eh?

edit: Apologies to coelacanth who made this same comment earlier.

 

[wgerrard]

That's why only dorks think it's dorky to use a neck strap around your neck. I can't think of any professionals who use neck straps any other way. They're to help you carry the camera and take pictures, not to make you look (what dorks think is) cool.

Cheers,

R.

Roger, I could be annoying and start a poll on this ("Does your camera bounce on and off your chest when you wear it on a neck strap?). 😉 But, I don't use a neck strap for precisely that reason: The camera bounces up and down as I walk. I don't like that so I hold it with one hand. I prefer carrying a camera in my right hand, secured, more or less, with a wrist strap.

Admittedly, using a neck strap does seem more secure since the potential exists to bounce the camera off something when I'm strolling and swinging that right arm.

I figure, though, that if I'm going to devote one hand to holding the camera, I'll do it in away that doesn't try to pound a hole in my sternum.

This is very much contradictory to my usual inclinations to strongly resist carrying anything.

 

[shadowfox]

Probably has the camera in replay mode ? Plus, we just learned, she's a dork (neck strap not around her neck) 🙂

🙂

I don't know where I'm on the dork-o-meter, 95% of the time my cameras are in and out of the bag.

But in those rare occasions when I helped my wife to cover an event or wedding, I do use the strap just so I don't forget and leave my camera in the banquet hall or church.

 

[MartinP]

Someone suggested a special link between the lenscap and the viewfinder . . . ? As in so many times in life, the answer is gaffer-tape. Find a piece of springy, thin-plastic packaging from something and then gaffer-tape a strip of it to the lenshood. It doesn't have to be very big to be seen in the viewfinder. The same piece of tape can hold on a piece of tidy-looking string which you can loop through the camera-strap or eyelet, so that you (usually) don't have to worry about where to put the lenscap which you just noticed and wisely removed.

I'm sure Heath-Robinson was also a photographer 🙂

 

[Paul Luscher]

I cap the lens in the bag, but the minute it comes out, just keep the UV filter on, add a lens hood.

However, I have blissfully shot a non-metered Leica without remembering to transfer the meter readings to the camera. Results were as you might expect...