AndyH wrote:
Yes, I read your post. And I read Mark's, as well as several others that supported the idea that this is not the default setting. I don't have a Sony and my inclination is to give the OP the benefit of the doubt and show a little sympathy. Others seem to prefer to pile on.
Andy, I take second place to no one regarding sympathy for Mark, but he's had a gracious plenty of that, and I think there are other, photographic issues at work here.
But contrary to your posting, NO ONE has supported (before your post...I haven't checked them all after that) that the default setting for the RX-10 iv is to give no notice that the card is missing. In fact, the only post on this point said just the opposite:
"tomad (a regular here) (online) Joined: Jul 6, 2017 Posts: 467 Loc: North Carolina
"My RX10 IV came with default settings that don't allow you to release the shutter when no memory card is inserted and a warning flashes on the screen."
I cannot be sure that I did not change the default when I got the camera, but I did check to be sure what happens if "Release w/o card" is set to "Enable" and found that "NO CARD" flashes on screen and in viewfinder even with this setting. If you select "Disable," aside from the NO CARD notification, the camera will not let you take a photo at all but instead gives a big warning that fills the screen. Just to be clear, you get a flashing NO CARD no matter what the setting is.
So the photographic tip to take away from Mark's experience is to select "Disable" as the safest thing, but if not, to at least look at the screen or viewfinder now and then.
Of course, the takeaway for a number of Hogs is not to buy Sony, which we see is based on bias, not evidence. Another reason for settling this issue rather than merely more sympathy for Mark.