frank theriault wrote: > > Okay, that's an exaggeration. It didn't ruin my weekend, but it > pissed me off some. And, really, it was my fault, not the camera's > >> snip> > I run off to snap about 20 or 25 shots of her and her float, quite > thrilled to have gotten that many of her. > > On the way to the car, I notice that I'd left the shutter speed dial > at 1/2000th. I was shooting at about f5.6, and on the overcast day, > the meter was reading between 1/125th and 1/250th. I was between 3 > and 4 stops underexposed. Poop! >> > -frank, back at work on Monday morning... > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
I can't tell you how many times over the years I did that -- for those of you unfamiliar with the anatomy of an LX (not many here, I trust, tho) that 1/2000 setting is right next to the auto metering button... and you have to take it off auto to load film, of course. Sometimes I caught it in a few frames because I heard the shutter - once or twice I shot a whole roll. Now and then it happened that I was luckily only 1 or 2 stops under. Ugh. Poor you. ann
