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09/19/2008 09:55:21 AM · #1 |
You decide to take your camera with you somewhere with a particular shot in mind, you take it out of you bag, turn it on, and it has just enough battery to turn on and then die.
Then you realize that you left your spare battery at home.
Now that is a bummer. Ironically, I couldn't capture this bummer for the challenge because my camera was dead. lol.
O well.
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09/19/2008 10:02:43 AM · #2 |
Very nearly happened to me 2 days ago when shooting the long exposure challenge; I turned on my camera and the little red battery symbol started to flash, I nearly had a heart attack! Thankfully it lasted just long enough to get a few photos.
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09/19/2008 10:04:44 AM · #3 |
This is why I keep all my gear in my bag - extra batteries, extra memory cards, etc. It never comes out of the bag except to be used or recharged, and then goes right back in.
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09/19/2008 10:05:26 AM · #4 |
| I have had this happen to me once. I was going to take some photos of my brother playing soccer and I got one shot before it decided to say no more >_< UGGH!!! I don't have a spare battery to take with me so it wasn't my day to say the least... |
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09/19/2008 10:18:15 AM · #5 |
It is nice having a camera that takes AA's. I can always steal the batteries from my external flash if necessary or stop at any store in the area.
Tim |
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09/19/2008 10:20:03 AM · #6 |
Almost happened to me last week. I was planning to go up to the mountain springs but it was raining slightly in the morning, so I didn't go. I remembered I still had some photos on the memory card, so I took out my camera and found the battery was completely flat, which surprised me.
And it turned out to be quite a hot sunny day.
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09/19/2008 10:38:30 AM · #7 |
back in the day, with my film camera. I went to a balloon festival and took 30 pictures on a 24 roll. I hadn't connected the film to the spool. I was taking (or not taking) picture for hours.
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09/19/2008 12:04:32 PM · #8 |
| Back with my first oly I went to a pyrotechnics convention in Wisconsin, (PGI website...if you've never seen one and are close by you should go, it's cool) but didn't know what all was involved in it. I had no idea that at the beginning each company just shows off their one special firework THEN the top 3-4 companies do a small show and a finale. I ended up draining my AA batteries within the first hour only to run out before the actual shows. I was furious and vowed never to be without batteries again. |
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09/19/2008 12:14:13 PM · #9 |
I left the charger for my P&S Vivitar T25 at home when I went to Montana a couple of months ago. Fortunately for me, the lith ion battery was strong enough to keep it going for the remaining 8 days of the trip by just using it only when necessary, for the river rafting part of the adventure.
My other 3 cameras, all Fuji's use AA's so in a pinch, they are available almost anywhere that I go. So far I have been careful to keep at least 3 sets if you include the set in the flash, in my bag at all times.
Here's a little tip. If you find that your battery is dead, you can warm it up a little by rubbing it/them on your pants leg, or heating them in the sun ect, and they will be good for at least a few more shots.
It also helps to shoot manual focus when the batteries are looking like they may not finish the shoot. This saves a lot of power.
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09/19/2008 01:33:45 PM · #10 |
I've not been bitten by the low battery blues, as I always buy extras when I buy a camera, and am pretty religious about making sure they are charged when I leave the house.
However, the default setting on the Canon 40D is to let you take pictures without the memory card. I have managed twice now to take a series of photos, only to find the dreaded NO CF CARD error message, when I went to review them. The second time it happened, I had driven 25 miles to get a sunset shot. Worse yet, I had also brought along my backup, the Sony F717. It's memory stick was not installed either. I had taken both units and pulled all the pictures off the cards in preparation for the shoot. When I got home, both cards were sitting on my desk, right where I left them, and inches from where the cameras were sitting before we left. |
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09/19/2008 01:42:30 PM · #11 |
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