steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Good tip contained herein: should you screw up and shoot with no card in your camera, do NOT turn camera off until after you attempt to retrieve whatever might be retrievable in camera.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I bet you could shoot tethered without a card.

ordinarytom Loc: Randsburg, California

I use a written checklist each time I leave with my camera.

coastlawyer Loc: Coastal Mississippi

I carry a small pink purse velcrowed to the strap. It has one battery and several cards. Pink so it shows.

Richard.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

LOL, I took a few of those on my Mamiya RB 67 too. Never could figure out how to print them, did you??

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

My Canon EOS 50D has a setting that will not allow photos without a memory card.

lobo-1 Loc: New Park,Pa

I bought a memory course so this would'nt happen.
Forgot what I did with it. :(

Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA

I have a 50D and a 5D MkII. I've set the 50D to not allow shooting without the card as well. I'm not sure if this feature is available on on the 5D. If it is, I haven't found it yet. Personally, I question its value. Being able to shoot in-store when considering a purchase doesn't seem to justify having the feature when it could be unintentionally left on resulting in missed shots.

With the sales that run at BH, Staples, Adorama, etc, I put a couple of cards in my wallet using the plastic protectors that usually ship with the cards to keep them clean and dry. That way, even if I take my bag but the cards inside are full, crash or whatever, I still have memory on me to keep shooting. The checklist is a good idea as well (laminate it & attach it to the outside of the bag).

I also don't like the idea of having to download to the computer through the camera. I usually use a card reader. For some reason, I have to use the USB cable with my NEX-5N to download. The card reader is an old Memorex that seems to work well with my CF & SD cards from my other cameras but won't work with the 5N. I don't know if it's the PMB software that came with the Sony or my reader is just getting old. I've used PMB with other cameras & didn't have this problem.

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

All these little bags attached to the camera etc will not help you because when the memory fails it fails anywhere along the chain of event. You may forget to put a spare card in that little pocket on the camera or you may forget to check your check list etc.

Your best bet is to do like we do in flying, we have a large flapping red strip of material that is fitted to a pocket that goes over the important bits on the plane that should always be covered up until it is time to fly. When that time comes, as you walk to the plane, even if you forgot about them (which should never happen) you will see those strip of red hanging off your aircraft and that will make you remember what to do next.

So keep a long piece of red material wrapped around your camera strap with the words, memory card and charged battery written on it. That way you will always see that strip of red material and it will always make you remember to check those two things each time you pick up your camera.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

That's the end of that then. No review, no pictures, and no internal memory. Just take your "Duh" trophy home (HEY...come back here - you forgot your trophy!) and sit it on the mantle then remember this experience forever. If you always use a camera bag and have three or four memory cards, when you leave one at home you still have 3 more in your bag. Same with batteries. I've left my battery in the charger hanging on my wall before when I took the camera without bag. Spares batteries in the bag solve that problem too.

Quickflash Loc: Loganville, Ga

I forgot what I did with my memory years ago! That is why my card never leaves my camera. At least that way, between me and the camera, one of us has memory! (And it is not me).

Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA

Like the old saying goes, "Youth is wasted on the young."
Kind of reminds me of that old movie "Johnny Dangerously" with Michael Keaton. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) plays this blind, street corner newspaper vendor. This truck comes by with the latest edition & throws a bundle of papers at him. He gets up and says "I can see! I can see!, but now I'm deaf". When it happens again, he gets up and yells "I can see & I can hear, but now I don't know who I am!"

Nevada Chuck

I have owned many Sony DSLR's (but never the 100), including the 300, 350, 55, and the 700 and 77 currently. In all of these, if there's no memory card in the camera, all you get is the "No Card" warning on the LED or viewfinder, and the shutter will not fire.

Based on my experience, I have no idea how you managed to record 50 photos without a memory card installed. As someone else here has already mentioned, even if there was some sort of built-in memory in the 100, and this feature eliminated beginning with the 200, it would be some sort of miracle if the number recorded exceeded 10 shots, and then only at the lowest level .jpg resolution.

GeneS Loc: Glendale,AZ

Your sony will let you snap a picture without a memory card in it. will then show you a preview of what the picture would have been. When you take the next picture you see a preview of the next picture but the last preview is lost.It only has enough memory to show one preview.
Sorry but all of the previews are lost.there was a small no card flashing you just didn't see it till 50 previews. You can't even insert a card and save the last preview. you might have down loaded the last picture to your computer if you hadn't turned it off.
sorry

GeneS Loc: Glendale,AZ

I'm now using the A77 and mine lets me take preview shots with out a memory card in it . try your A77 and you will see what I mean. A100 did the same thing