Epic Fail Stories (Lounge?)

[Kikaruu]

We need an archive of our own fail stories in one thread. I'll start off.

I was messing around with an open disposable camera that had been charged but not flashed, and got shocked so bad that there are burn marks on my knuckle. :facepalm: Moral: Do not mess around with stuff if the manufacturer said not to.

Now, what fail stories do YOU have? :)

[Kikaruu]

Bump'd for increased Fail.

[crowquill]

We need an archive of our own fail stories in one thread. I'll start off.

I was messing around with an open disposable camera that had been charged but not flashed, and got shocked so bad that there are burn marks on my knuckle. :facepalm: Moral: Do not mess around with stuff if the manufacturer said not to.

Now, what fail stories do YOU have? :)

isn't that what this whole forum is for :confused:

[Kikaruu]

isn't that what this whole forum is for :confused:

I just failed, didn't I? :facepalm:

[crowquill]

I just failed, didn't I? :facepalm:

Epicly.

[Kikaruu]

Wow. I'm glad I'm bringing the essence of this forum.:)

[Kramerguy]

we hired a professional photographer to film our last gig using a high end camcorder that we provided. I showed him how to use it and told him to just try and get film of the whole band in a lot of shots, and we were just looking for songs to maybe get a couple of demo's of.

Well, the guy may be a fantastic photographer, but he was the worst cameraman I've ever seen. I gave him 9-30 minute discs. we did a 4 hour show and he shot a total of 17 minutes of footage spanned over 3 disks.

We did about 40 songs + extras, he managed to capture about 5 complete songs, and about 5 more that he just stopped filming in the middle for no apparent reason. One of those was a song we specified that we really wanted to capture too.

Anyways... of the 5 songs he captured...
The 5 songs we really couldn't have cared to bother filming. just luck of the draw I guess, but he kept zooming in on us, for instance, in one song, I do about a 4 minute long solo, and the entire time I'm doing this solo, he's zoomed in on the singer's chin whiskers, yes... full frontal zoom... after a coupel of minutes he zooms in on the singer's un-used microphone... then zooms in on the drumset (big set, can't hardly see the drummer behind it) for the remainder of the song.

That was about the same for every song.

The real killer is that the audio came out EXCEPTIONAL, yet the video turned out to be about 90% useless.

EPIC FAIL on the part of the camera guy. No wonder he insisted on being paid up front before the show. :mad:

[Kikaruu]

Ouchums.

[WynnD]

Zoom envy - the bane of new camcorder users.