Will I Ever Learn

BloomingMarvellous · #1 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 10:39 PM

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've taken my Camera out and forgot to check the batteries, or made sure I've put the card back in after using it on the computer. It happened yet again today, doh! Does this happen to anyone else, or am i all alone on this.

loripo · #2 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:04 PM

I usually use the cable to upload, unless I'm at work when I use a card reader, and I do carry spare batteries, but it seems whenever I see something I really want to capture my batteries have decide to run low!
Or when usually take my compact camera with me everywhere, last week I went to the dentist, decided I didnt need camera and found a female stag beetle wandering across the path from the churchyard to a bus stop and I gnashed my teeth even before I reached the chair

I moved her to nearby bushes in case someone screamed and stomped on her.

Ollie · #3 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've taken my Camera out and forgot to check the batteries, or made sure I've put the card back in after using it on the computer. It happened yet again today, doh! Does this happen to anyone else, or am i all alone on this.

Can't say as I've ever taken mine out with dead batteries or without the memory card. My usual trick is to forget to format the memory card from the previous outings shots and then start shooting before I realise. At least it's not a mistake that causes a loss of any images etc, more of an annoyance than anything.

Cheryl · #4 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've taken my Camera out and forgot to check the batteries, or made sure I've put the card back in after using it on the computer. It happened yet again today, doh! Does this happen to anyone else, or am i all alone on this.

No you are certainly not alone. I do now check the monitor for the battery status - it only ever shows full, half full - then empty

so if it is half full I always put it on charge - even just for a little while - just in case.

I try to remember to delete all my images once I've uploaded them to the PC so I don't run out of space - I have a spare card but it's never where I think it is

It is Sods' Law that I'll see something really interesting when the camera has "died" on me

ron1863 · #5 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ollie

Can't say as I've ever taken mine out with dead batteries or without the memory card. My usual trick is to forget to format the memory card from the previous outings shots and then start shooting before I realise. At least it's not a mistake that causes a loss of any images etc, more of an annoyance than anything.

Ditto Roger, and when I connect to the computer I forget to clear the tick boxes and download the previous shots again - very frustrating.

Jason Green · #6 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Ollie

Can't say as I've ever taken mine out with dead batteries or without the memory card. My usual trick is to forget to format the memory card from the previous outings shots and then start shooting before I realise. At least it's not a mistake that causes a loss of any images etc, more of an annoyance than anything.

Good man. Something I should learn to do - format the card! I still have a spider shot from... Autumn 2007 on mine! Beat that...

BM, I once got out on an early and very cold, frosty morning with the camera - being an insect-kind of person I don't really know what I was expecting to see given the weather - then turned my camera on. A second later the red battery symbol popped up - and off went the camera! Needless to say, it was a cold and cameraless walk...

Lancashire Lad · #7 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:43 PM

Everyone has their own preferred method of transferring images from camera to computer, but mine avoids the need to ever remove the card or indeed reformat it.

I simply connect the camera to PC via USB lead, highlight all the photos on the card, drag them to a new folder (created with the date as the file name) on the computer, and right-click "Move". - Job done.

No chance of losing or forgetting the card, and no need to bother with reformatting. (Have done it this way ever since going digital).

As for forgetting to charge the batteries, no simple answer. I use the accessory battery pack with the Nikon, so it always has two batteries on board, and there's practically no chance of ever discharging both of them in a day. (They seem to go on for ever

).

The S9600 takes 4xAA size batteries so I just use good quality rechargeables.
I use an Ansmann Energy 16 charger unit that can charge up to 12 cells at a time, so I always have at least 1 set of fully charged spares in the bag.

PS: Useful tip. The old Fujichrome 35mm transparency cases are just the right size to hold 12xAA cells, nice & snug.

Regards,
Mike.

pressld2 · #8 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 11:54 PM

Did it for the first time last Monday. My wife recently won the play-writing competition at the Havant Literary Festival and last Monday was the presentation evening. I just grabbed the camera on the way out of the door and completely forgot that the memory card was still in the PC. I didn't take my camera bag, just the camera so had no spare cards and didn't realise until we got to Havant - a two hour drive from our house!

Fortunately there was an Asda supermarket a couple of miles from the theatre and I bought the only CF card they had - a 4 gig Sandisk II. That card now lives in the glove compartment of my car so I can never arrive anywhere cardless again.

Unless I go by train... Darn!

Dave P.

P.s. shameless plug - Angie's play is called A Higher Education and will be performed at the Bench Theatre in Havant from September 22nd to 26th inclusive.

BloomingMarvellous · #9 (**permalink**) 19-07-2009, 12:30 AM

That makes me feel better knowing I'm not alone... Thanks guy's.

Your sounding much more organised than the rest of us Lancashire Lad.

Mike Jackson · #10 (**permalink**) 19-07-2009, 06:35 AM

I'm a bit paranoid about not having enough memory or battery power and even not having the right lens with me so I tend to lug my rucksack out with me whenever I take the camera out. As well as all the lenses it's got 3 spare memory cards and the AA battery holder for my battery grip along with 8 rechargeable AAs. Having said that with the battery grip the batteries seem good for two days full shooting, even with IS lenses.