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2) Digital cameras doesn't suffer this!
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Trust me, some people have forgotten to stick a memory card in. By the time the big red NO CF flashes, it's too late
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
1) All the best shots will be lost because you left the lens cap on.
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True story:
My friend was printing pictures in his basement darkroom, and changed negative size. As such, he switched the diffuser, removed the enlarger lens and set everything up for 4x5 film, then went upstair for a glass of water. He came back, slid the negative in, turn the enlarger on... Nothing.
Checked the power connections.
Checked the lights.
Checked all the connections.
Checked that he'd put in the negative correctly.
After a few minutes of trying, he shut the enlarger down and went upstair to get his father, a photographer of 20 + years of experience. The father comes downstair, and puzzled, check the connections. My friend checks the diffuser, they also check the bulbs.
Then after ten minutes, as they were about to start foraging for the enlarger manual, the father had a stroke of genius. He reached under the enlarger and removed the lens cap.
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Triumphant, he hits the FOCUS button.
Nothing.
So my friend suddenly gets a flash of genius, remove the lens, peels off the butt cap, and slam the lens back in.
You know, sometimes you get those awkward silences when you do something really, really stupid and you feel like your father has just lost all sense of pride in you? It was kind of like that.
You know that moment when your son looks at you like he just realised that your not superdad after all, and his dreams shatter? It was kind of like that.
We just looked at each other for a long moment, then walked away in different directions.
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Also, by the way, you shouldn't ever check the diffuser while the enlarger is on. It's been ten years, and my eyes still hurt when I think about it.
(Now that I think about it, I don't remember how the lens could attach with the butt cap still on, but that was the day we found out. Since we sold that enlarger a long time ago, I can't go and check how it was set up, but I swear this happened.)