Whose fault is it?

[Sparrow]

Fail to prepare.
Prepare to fail....
It can never be the equipments fault.
If the photo is that important. .... Take ten cameras.
Take 20.
I have never quite mastered a camera like I did my D200.
And don't have the patience to master another.......
Like that anyway.
Missed untold pics with the xpro1.

Pretty stupid poll.
But I answered it.

... do they not have whimsy in beautiful Hallaton then?

 

[Rob-F]

If the photo is that important. .... Take ten cameras.
Take 20.

Three should do. Triple redundancy: It's good enough for NASA.

 

[back alley]

I suspect you may have used that one before ...just a a wild guess 🙂

perhaps a time or two...

 

[rwintle]

My answer required absolutely no time to consider it whatsoever... definitely me, almost always. The last "equipment failure" I had was in fact due to me failing to set a switch on a lens properly.

That might not count though, because it didn't mess up any photographs, just stopped me using that camera until the light bulb went off, metaphorically speaking.

As for failed photos... even if it's a camera problem (e.g., failure of my Nettar to wind the film tightly enough, resulting in light leaks) - it's usually something I (a) knew about, (b) should have avoided, or (c) some combination of (a) and (b).

More than you wanted to know, probably. Now, let's pop the film out of the Pentax.... AAAAAAAGH FORGOT TO REWIND!!!!! 😉

 

[rhl-oregon]

Who's for assigning relative blame to Daguerre or Fox Talbot?

 

[fireblade]

Hers.....as always.

 

[daveleo]

I'll back-peddle and say that on rare occassions, it is NOT my fault.
Here's a casual family portrait event. Everyone moved constantly. I had to splice heads from different pictures to get the final result looking decent.
That was NOT my fault !

 

[sebastel]

i guess you're not married.
married men know, that it's their fault anyway.

 

[icebear]

... alea iacta est 😉.

 

[Rayt]

I have more than once bought a used camera/lens for a trip without testing it first just to see ruined negs. My fault totally. I don't even buy used film anymore just to save 20 bucks on a trip that cost me $2000 plus valuable time.

 

[k__43]

voted all the options.. being silly today 😀

 

[Sparrow]

voted all the options.. being silly today 😀

.. good man! I always do that when I can 🙂

 

[Jack Conrad]

Somebody has to say "it's San Andreas' fault".

 

[Sparrow]

... it's usually North Craven's Fault here in God's own county

 

[rpsawin]

I see it as a special gift allowing me to produce crappy pictures with some of the best gear ever made.

 

[charjohncarter]

In the US we have a recent tradition of blaming everybody/everything but ourselves. Just go to traffic school in California to find me right.

I blame equipment, developer, film manufacturers, labs, light meters that give me wrong readings, bad thermometers, and television for distracting me while processing film all for causing my goof-ups.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

This is why I like b/w film. Very forgiving 🙂

 

[raid]

I voted for all three options. I am covered.

 

[DougFord]

D'oh!


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[Bill Clark]

I chose:

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