Comments on: “The Silence of the EOS R5.” A “Pewter” Morning Gone to Hell in a Handbasket. And “The Major Screw-up:” a story almost too embarrassing to tell … https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/01/the-silence-of-the-eos-r5-a-pewter-morning-gone-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-and-the-major-screw-up-a-story-almost-too-embarrassing-to-tell/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/01/the-silence-of-the-eos-r5-a-pewter-morning-gone-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-and-the-major-screw-up-a-story-almost-too-embarrassing-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-1816261 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:46:22 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=71852#comment-1816261 In reply to Joe Subolefsky.

Joe. The camera update worked out very well. There has not been a lens firmware update …

thanks with love, a

]]> By: Jerrold https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/02/01/the-silence-of-the-eos-r5-a-pewter-morning-gone-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-and-the-major-screw-up-a-story-almost-too-embarrassing-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-1814605 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:30:28 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=71852#comment-1814605 My most embarrassing moment yet when photographing came a couple of years back when shooting my daughter’s high school symphonic band. I had been photographing them for several years doing the marching band as well as the “formal” picture when they did their annual spring concert. We had to change venues and this year we were in the “crapatorium” (school auditorium) and not in our usual beautiful theater where I was always in the balcony. So I had to bring a ladder to go right in the middle of maybe 300 parents, in front of 100 kids and the band director.

OK, so I had done this before. However for whatever reason I was on total auto-pilot and after a weekend earlier of shooting, thought I had plenty of enough batteries. Well, things were great as I arrived way earlier then usual to get set up, my meter readings done, etc. Never a thought to the batteries… I took some pics in warmups and then we started..

I grabbed my ladder, set it up right in the middle, moving quickly as our band director hates me taking more than a minute of time to get set. Mind you I changed batteries just before I decided to start thinking I should make sure I have enough power…

I got up on the ladder, and NO GO! I checked everything… The battery that I THOUGHT had TWO bars….gave up the ghost as I stupidly realized I FORGOT TO CHARGE THE BATTERIES!

So, ok, I figured with three different bands that night I could still charge up and take the next two. Nope, again, NO GO because our director thought it was unfair if I could not do all three.

DANG was I embarrassed! Fortunately most parents actually felt bad for me, but I will never forget to CHARGE MY BATTERIES before a major shoot!

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