Comments on: Scott’s School of Hard Knocks

By: music

music — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:46 +0000

very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader

By: Petra Hall

Petra Hall — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:03:38 +0000

Scott, I have done the same thing (but with my Canon 40D) and I swear, it’s always the best images you ever took that you took without the memory card. Brilliant images that will never be seen by anyone else. Tough life!

OK, maybe I lied a bit. But the part about not having a card in the camera and it took a while before I realized the shooting without a card was enabled is true.

Just wanted to drop you a line and wish you a great Christmas!

By: vickie

vickie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:53:51 +0000

Scott,

I don’t know how to communicate to your site except under comments.
Sorry.

I am sending you a link for a xmas video I am certain you will get a kick out of. We have extreme lighting in our front yard synchorized to music and we also have Mr. & Mrs. Claus dancing live onstage to the Evolution of Dance. Hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas to all my photoshop friends.
Vickie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AKkAwxuo8

By: Stephen J. Zeller

Stephen J. Zeller — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:15:08 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thanks for that great information. I now have a sticky note to remind me to change that setting as soon as I get my new D300.

Thanks again!

Stephen

By: Eilif Stene

Eilif Stene — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:57:32 +0000

Hi Scott,

The Nikon D3 also ships the same way as the D300, with default settings it shoots without a memory card.

All the best, Eilif
Bergen, Norway

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:17:39 +0000

Dear Kelby,

First i like to say sorry, casue my english is poor.
I need your help… i bought your (very nice) bookAdobe Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers. I like to traning with your pictures, but the website www.prenhall.com/kelby-br doesn’t exists… may you mail me???

Thanks…

Alexandre - SP-Brazil

By: Josh Bertrand

Josh Bertrand — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:15:50 +0000

I just did the same thing with my D300 the other night. Though we were only goofing around so nothing serious lost except for a couple of goofy portraits. Sucks to have lost some nice studio model shots. But better now than later for sure.

By: Arkadiusz Benedykt

Arkadiusz Benedykt — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:31:39 +0000

Liz Elllingwood: great point. When went to buy my cam, I tested 4 of them cos all of them had some dust on the sensor. So it was so great just to pop in the batttery and shoot few samples. On the other hand, the lady in the shop, later switched the option off and set the timmer and the timezone so I didnt had to. so IMHO its a great option and its great that is by default on, if you buy in a good shop there is no problem, else RTFM

By: Glyn Dewis

Glyn Dewis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:16:17 +0000

Well they say the best way to learn is ‘the hard way’ :o) Thankfully like you said, it wasn’t a contracted job cos that would have been a nightmare.

I’m assuming the same default would be set on the D3, so thanks for the ‘heads up’ Scott.

Best wishes,
Glyn

By: Alan Hess

Alan Hess — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:44:58 +0000

I still don’t get why the default settings are what they are on most of the DSLRs that I have used.
The one that drives me crazy is that the file quality is usually set to some middle size JPG. I understand that not everyone shoots RAW, but at least set the default to the biggest JPG.

On shooting without “Film”, that happened on a shoot with good old film. Something just went wrong and the film stopped advancing about three exposures into the shoot. Get the roll back from the lab and its all blank…

Fun time explaining that to the customer.

By: Billy MItchell

Billy MItchell — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:20:20 +0000

As a working photographer for over 40 years I learned early to test my cameras with film and without film. I know it seems odd, but if you did that you knew in the days of film if there was film in the camera or not just by the sound of the camera and pull of the film advance. Most cameras would shoot without film and the counter would count without film. Just by feel and sound I would know.

With digital, I shoot a new camera with and without a card. If the camera will shoot without, then I change the setting. Easier than film and a little more fool proof (a little). At least digital has a setting.

Before every job, I take my camera back to zero. Back to my standard setting to start all jobs. And during every job I check my settings: ISO, shutter speed, aperture, focusing, and flash.

I do make mistakes, but I work to catch them fast. Thankfully in over 40 years I have never missed getting the job photographed.

By: Kevin Zdyb

Kevin Zdyb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:06:16 +0000

Scott,
I have been waiting for Nikon’s Camera Control Pro for Leopard and according to Nikon’s website it is not released yet. Is this available somewhere?