No matter how much I do large format photography, I seem still sometimes forget to do something. This is particularly likely if there are distractions, which is all too frequent. Most things you can't skip because you are forced to do them, but others can be inadvertently skipped if you are concentrating too hard on something else. The thing I seem to forget most often is putting my center filter on my wide angle lenses, I think because I started off without one, and its use has never becomee ingrained as habit. Of course, I often don't need it, but I want to decide whether or not to use it rather than just forgetting about it. Another thing that I sometimes forget to do is to remove the dark slide. Two other errors are not usually fatal because they come immediately to attention and just result in some wasted film. These are forgetting to close the preview lever, whence my shutter won't release, and, forgetting to put the dark slide back before removing the film holder, which can happen if I lay it down during exposure.
What I need is a simple mnemonic for essential things to check and some way to force myself to do the check each time. Does anyone have any good ways to do this?
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Re: How do you avoid forgetting things?
I establish a routine and try to do everything in the same order every time. Do it enough and your brain will let you know if you are skipping a step.
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