resolution option went dead!

[shootinglulu]

Hallo.
The resolution option in the sub menu went dead this evening, i clicked on it but no response, the light was out. All the other options were working fine, I turned the camera on and off and it was working fine again.
I am quite upset that i may have spent 2,500 pounds on a camera with dodgy electrics.
Any advice about what i should do would be very welcome, the camera feels far less than perfect to me now.
Thanks
Lucy

[williamn]

Might you be shooting in Raw only? Try changing to JPG only or DNG+JPG and see if it Resolution is available.

[sfokevin]

Originally Posted by shootinglulu

Hallo.
The resolution option in the sub menu went dead this evening, i clicked on it but no response, the light was out. All the other options were working fine, I turned the camera on and off and it was working fine again.
I am quite upset that i may have spent 2,500 pounds on a camera with dodgy electrics.
Any advice about what i should do would be very welcome, the camera feels far less than perfect to me now.
Thanks
Lucy

Do you have your camera set to DNG?... If you do then all pictures will be at the highest resolution and your option to change the resolution is grayed(Not available)... Yes very dodgy...

[shootinglulu]

Ok, now i am going to die of embarrasment, but mainly happiness!
Thankyou

[farnz]

Please don't die; plenty of us have taken award-winning shots only to find the lens cap clinging to the front of the lens ...

Pete.

[Nicoleica]

Originally Posted by farnz

Please don't die; plenty of us have taken award-winning shots only to find the lens cap clinging to the front of the lens ...

Pete.

Yes. That famous black cat in the coal hole at night, is a right of rangefinder passage.

[john_newell]

Originally Posted by farnz

Please don't die; plenty of us have taken award-winning shots only to find the lens cap clinging to the front of the lens ...

Pete.

Ha! To the purists who decry meters, I will say that I have not made that mistake since I started using metered Ms, which goes back to the first bunch of M6es in 1984!

To the OP: try shooting raw for a bit. The raw files that come out of the M8 are like jewels. I was relatively disappointed by the jpgs.

[Bo_Lorentzen]

Lucy,

If you don't already have it, go get a copy of Lightroom 2 - it makes the RAW workflow with the M8 so simple and you will love the extra information in the RAW files.

.

[blakley]

Originally Posted by john_newell

Ha! To the purists who decry meters, I will say that I have not made that mistake since I started using metered Ms, which goes back to the first bunch of M6es in 1984!

True story: the very FIRST picture I ever took of the inside of a lenscap using an M was on a Photo Mentor Series excursion; I was "photographing" an accordionist on the path up to the cliffs of Moher in Ireland with my M3. One of the mentors was walking by at the time; he tapped me on the shoulder and said "you've got a problem on the front of your lens".

The instructor's name? Joe McNally.

Since then there's never been a cap on any of my M lenses.

[ptarmigan]

Originally Posted by farnz

Please don't die; plenty of us have taken award-winning shots only to find the lens cap clinging to the front of the lens ...

Pete.

Or not put film in the camera! Best story I heard of was my own brother who was at Badminton Horse trials in the early 1980s with camera when who should arrive right next to him? British Royal Family who stopped their Range Rovers and alighted. The Queen, Prince Philip, Queen Mother and a whole host of other royals. He had 2 or 3 minutes of them to himself before the 'papps' arrive and security bundled the Royal away.

He shot loads of great shots, up real close too. He got concerned when he didn't run out of film after 36 shots. He'd forgot to load the film!

Still thats Canon for you............

[gfspencer]

Originally Posted by shootinglulu

Ok, now i am going to die of embarrasment, but mainly happiness!
Thankyou

You are not the first.

What did we do before forums?

[microview]

Originally Posted by ptarmigan

He got concerned when he didn't run out of film after 36 shots. He'd forgot to load the film!

Still thats Canon for you............

Been there, done that! Canon A-1 counter goes on whether or not film loaded. Had some nice pics of Concorde on its last flight over Kew Gardens – or so I thought.

[john_newell]

Originally Posted by ptarmigan

Or not put film in the camera! Best story I heard of was my own brother who was at Badminton Horse trials in the early 1980s with camera when who should arrive right next to him? British Royal Family who stopped their Range Rovers and alighted. The Queen, Prince Philip, Queen Mother and a whole host of other royals. He had 2 or 3 minutes of them to himself before the 'papps' arrive and security bundled the Royal away.

He shot loads of great shots, up real close too. He got concerned when he didn't run out of film after 36 shots. He'd forgot to load the film!

Still thats Canon for you............

Yeah, or not advanced the film - 36 perfect exposures, all on the pressure plate or the film leader!!! I only did that once, but I have almost done that countless times - learned to always take up the slack on the rewind and watch for the knob rotating.