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This morning I went to my fiancee's Kindergarten class. Liz wanted me to shoot the children wearing Santa caps to send home for Christmas. In the past I've used my Nikon D70 and all went well. This year I decided to use the RD1, and knowing that I might need it I brought my Nikon sb28 flash.
Well the shooting went great, the flash did its thing, and the kids looked real cute. However, when we got back to the classroom things started to go very un-great, and caused me to fear camera failure. I changed lens from the 50 Nokton to the 35mm to get some group shots of the kids, but the shutter speeds seemed to not work. I shifted the shutter speed dial from 125 to 'A' and tried again. Still no joy. Being in a Kindergarten classroom didn't allow me give voice to my dismay (cuss words being highly frowned upon). I though, "I've got to pack this thing up, and mail it to Robert White all the way across the Atlantic, and hope Epson doesn't screw it up more than it already is screwed up." I switched the camera off in the hope that a restart would fix things, but it didn't. I removed the battery, put it back in, turned the camera on, and still the shutter speeds didn't work properly.
"Well," I thought, "at least the kid's photos came out great and Liz and the kids' parents will be happy, but I f'-up my camera with the speedlight somehow and have to send this sweet camera away."
And when it all seemed lost, I remembered something one of the folks on this forum wrote in defining the characteristics of a rangefinder -- "If you can take a photo with the lens cap on, it may be a rangefinder."
Thanks y'all for all the answers and questions.
Michael
Well the shooting went great, the flash did its thing, and the kids looked real cute. However, when we got back to the classroom things started to go very un-great, and caused me to fear camera failure. I changed lens from the 50 Nokton to the 35mm to get some group shots of the kids, but the shutter speeds seemed to not work. I shifted the shutter speed dial from 125 to 'A' and tried again. Still no joy. Being in a Kindergarten classroom didn't allow me give voice to my dismay (cuss words being highly frowned upon). I though, "I've got to pack this thing up, and mail it to Robert White all the way across the Atlantic, and hope Epson doesn't screw it up more than it already is screwed up." I switched the camera off in the hope that a restart would fix things, but it didn't. I removed the battery, put it back in, turned the camera on, and still the shutter speeds didn't work properly.
"Well," I thought, "at least the kid's photos came out great and Liz and the kids' parents will be happy, but I f'-up my camera with the speedlight somehow and have to send this sweet camera away."
And when it all seemed lost, I remembered something one of the folks on this forum wrote in defining the characteristics of a rangefinder -- "If you can take a photo with the lens cap on, it may be a rangefinder."
Thanks y'all for all the answers and questions.
Michael
