The corollary to doing this is to turn off the flash and forgetting to turn
it back on. That shows up right away. It's so easy to do these stupid and
simple mistakes. I think I made fewer like this when everything was manual
so I had to think. With the auto my mind also turns off at times.
Gregg
From: "Ken Norton
> I know that I am:
>
> 1. Rusty
> 2. Distracted
> 3. Tired
>
> But this was really stupid. I was photographing a banquet last night and
> used my "wedding rig" which consists of my OM-2S, winder, Vivitar 5200
> flash with homemade diffusion filter and angle bracket to position the
> flash for vertical pictures.
>
> I shot two rolls of film, but the beginning shots on each roll were ruined
> because I failed to double-check the position of the mode switch. That's
> right, I had the switch in manual instead of auto. Worse yet, the shutter
> speed was set at 1/250.
>
> I wouldn't have caught it except that the flash was doing full-dump even
> for close-in shots. I put two and two together and checked over all the
> settings and connections and discovered my mistake. Fortunately, I caught
> my mistakes in time to redo most of the critical shots, but probably still
> ruined 15 altogether. What really ticks me off, is that I did it twice!
>
> If I could only get the G40 flash mounted off-camera I would probably
> completely switch over to the IS-3 for wedding/event shooting.
>
> Oh No! I just had a sinking feeling. You guessed it, I forgot to change
> the ISO dial too. Whew, it was set on 160 and I was shooting Gold 200.
> That was a lucky mistake.
>
> The room was so dark last night (candlelight only), that everything was
> guesswork.
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