{"id":1112,"date":"2010-09-12T22:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:19:31","slug":"519-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/519-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"#519 To the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/519-to-the-rescue\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>At the end of the summer, I was working for a client for a simple executive portrait. I pulled out a lens and, yikes, it was not behaving properly! It did not share info with the camera (aperture) and autofocus would not work.<\/p>\n<p>I did a quick troubleshoot but quickly went to another lens &#8211; I have some overlap in my camera bag. Otherwise the shoot went well &#8211; the client was happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>I took the lens to <a title=\"Canadian Camera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiancamera.com\/repairs.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.canadiancamera.com%2Frepairs.htm','Canadian+Camera')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Camera<\/a> where they know I rely on my equipment for work. They had the lens repaired swiftly &#8211; phew! They have helped me twice in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always stressful when something like that happens on the job &#8211; not only are you paying attention to your work but you have to problem solve&#8230; quickly!!<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s always good to have a backup camera, lens and plan! I usually travel with two bodies and a selection of lenses appropriate for the job &#8211; I shoot mostly with prime \/ fixed focal \/ non-zoom lenses and have an 80-200 f2.8 for events.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Event Photography - Ottawa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chelseagallery.ca\/HarryNowell\/Slice_of_Life_Photos\/images\/HNWeddingFunL.jpg\" alt=\"Event Photography - Ottawa\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Event Photography - Ottawa<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet At the end of the summer, I was working for a client for a simple executive portrait. I pulled out a lens and, yikes, it was not behaving properly! It did not share info with the camera (aperture) and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/519-to-the-rescue\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F09%2F12%2F519-to-the-rescue%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}