Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Stephen Girimont on March 30, 2017, 08:48:08 pm
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Took my new GFX with me to Chicago for a 2 day business meeting and never got the chance to take it out of the bag. However, on the flight back to Washington, we had a nice sunset:
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Wing_and_Clouds.jpg)
My interesting discovery came after struggling to take the camera out of my small backpack under the seat in front of me in coach. When I put the 63mm lens on the camera, I apparently didn't seat it quite properly. It clicked, but I guess some of the contacts weren't quite aligned. This caused the camera to exhibit the following behavior:
1) The camera wouldn't focus either manually or automatically (duh)
2) The LCD image would not respond to changes in aperture, ISO or shutter speed.
3) Most oddly: the camera would not shut off without removing the battery!
After I experimented with many different solutions (worrying all the while that I had somehow broken my very expensive new toy while hauling it around), I eventually tried taking off the lens and putting it back on, which brought the camera back to normal. Whew!
After breathing slowly to come down from my almost-panic attack, I had fun using the swiveling LCD to allow me to shoot images without having to contort myself into a pretzel in the coach seat.
I imagine most of these types of images are shot using small cameras like the Olympus Pen F I usually carry with me. Wonder if this is the highest-resolution out-the-plane-window image of a wing ever taken? ;-)
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Nice shot.
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Nice clean window. Mine are always a mess
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cool shot
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I had much the same lens/body coupling issue with the first D-SLR I owned and the very first time I used it. Hmmm, this isn't starting off very well… Removing & remounting the lens did the trick. In the 14+ years since it's never happened again. :)
-Dave-