Comments on: Top 9 Settings to Reset on your Camera After Every Use

By: Marty G

Marty G — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:36:07 +0000

It is a bit like being an airline pilot checking. All of the instruments need to. Be checked before successful take off. Shooting at night with a high ISO is the gaff that I must frequently make. I was recently perplexed when my Nikon D90 started to shoot low res JPEG instead of RAW, now on this occasion it wasn’t me, rather a faulty printed circuit board that Nikon replaced!
I now check every the camera settings, having learnt from my mistakes. Thanks for the 1-9 checklist

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:35:37 +0000

In reply to ralph. Ah yeah, that's another one that can get you. I generally don't ever deviate from RAW, but if you switch back and forth I could see it being frustrating at some point.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:34:49 +0000

In reply to Fraucha.

It’s tricky, because (at least for me) mentally I think “oh yeah, I’ll be sure to reset that” and at the end of the day I reset some of the things but not others. Live and learn…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:10:37 +0000

In reply to Sydney Dio. You're not the first to make that mistake... interestingly enough, I found that since I've started doing more HDR I'm much more conscious of the AEB functions than I used to be when its use was a rarity.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:51:28 +0000

Timer! This is the one that kills me every time. My timer. I’ll have it on for a family shot or self portrait or long exposure when I don’t want to touch the camera Then pick up the camera the next time and compose and click and nothing happens. Click again. What the heck!?!?!? It took my step-son to remind me to check my timer. Oh … right. DUH!!!!

By: Vala

Vala — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:32:25 +0000

In reply to ralph. Oh yeah! I've forgotten to reset my iso, both on my film cameras and my digitals, after shooting higher iso than my standard. Several times. Kicked myself black and blue (figuratively speaking) every time!

By: Aryeh

Aryeh — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:20:46 +0000

Thanks for the list! I was recently “the photographer” at a one time family event and when the whole family got together for “the family portrait”, I was getting blown out exposures every time (finally switched to Manual). Got home and found that my camera was still on Spot Metering mode from our last hiking trip, wish I had had the list then.

By: ralph

ralph — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:22:06 +0000

Hi all,
Re my post on this topic above.
I did reset all except one, guess what, I forgot to set it back to RAW so Ive taken 133 shots all in jpeg.
I think ive now learned a lesson, but it hurts.
Im now going to be the child I could of been and walk around with a pet lip for the rest of the day.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:45:42 +0000

Great advice and reminder. I really need to implement this, I have ruined plenty of those one of a kind, quick first shots because I hadn’t reset my cameras settings.

By: Sydney Dio

Sydney Dio — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:07:28 +0000

Number 9 really rang a bell with me, I did exactly that one time, and WAS scratching my head as to what was wrong with my pics. I was this close to calling Nikon and demanding what was wrong with my camera, when this tiny thought wiggled into my brain, just a hint, a small sigh, and when I checked…yep…bracketing was on. Love this list and plan to use it every time!!!

By: Fraucha

Fraucha — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:19:33 +0000

I have to say I have made these mistakes many times in 40 years and like a bad doggie, I still slip once in a while. I slip when I FORGET to stop and reset at the end of the day(if the session is completed). Exposure Compensation is the one that I seem to forget. Even though I can fix it in post, it is the one thing I hate to have to go back and fix because of a mental lapse.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:56:34 +0000

Its great to be reminded about resetting our camera’s.
Ive been out seven hours today, frost late morning with mist, sunny afternoon then I waited for sunset, the light changes ever so quickly and I cant remember how many times I changed the settings but it must of been alot.
My fingers were really cold at the end of the day so I adjusted everthing upon my return home after warming up
Thanks for the topic, its a great thing for us all to remember.