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Remembering to Cock Camera

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Extiger

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Is there a nursery rhyme, or jingle I could recite that would help a new guy to remember to cock the camera? So that lens, back, body will mate up correctly?
To make the little routine instinctive?

The part about matching the color of dots on the body and back is clear, but the lens shutter status hasn't quite sunk in.

Gary
 
I have not got a rhyme for you but keep this in mind:
Cock the camera after every exposure.
It means you can expose immediately, change a lens without even thinking is the camera cocked.
Some users are reluctant to cock the camera thinking of loaded springs etc.
There is no need to worry about that.
Springs in the camera and the lens can stand being loaded for longer periods of time without any negative effect.
Only if you are sure the camera will not be used for several months does it make sense to store the camera in released position.

Single lenses are always cocked unless you release the lens after removal from the body.
That may give rise to problems when mounting a released lens to a body.
The same goes for lenses; no need to release them unless they are to be stored for several months.


Vic
 
I was anticipating that there might be a mantra .... like Mary Had a Little Lamb... or something that would engrain in me a sequence of steps to ensure smooth camera operation.

I'm reading that section in Wildi's book (Hasselblad Manual) right now. I guess when my hands run through the routine a few times, it will be instinctive.

Gary
 
Extiger said:
I was anticipating that there might be a mantra .... like Mary Had a Little Lamb... or something that would engrain in me a sequence of steps to ensure smooth camera operation.


Gary
Click to expand...


Nothing to stop you from making a good rhyme..........



Vic.
 
I sympathise, I have a TLR and when I got it I often forgot to wind on, after being spoilt by auto wind on with SR and DSLRs.
 
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