Embarrassed!! How could I? (Page 10): I’m sorry to hear that, but hope your wife is well, and your mental memory card is full. You will just have to go back and try again. I have a...

dyximan

markngolf wrote:

I've posted a few images and comments about my Son... (show quote)

I’m sorry to hear that, but hope your wife is well, and your mental memory card is full. You will just have to go back and try again. I have a D500 I will have to check that it has a no card indicator and turn it on.

Rozebud

markngolf wrote:

...For the 3rd time, NO Card!!
Mark

The first time I saw the menu option to enable shutter release w/o memory card inserted... I thought to myself "self, you need to be protected from yourself and the agonizing heartbreak that comes from the realization of the uncaptured perfect picture you will ever take."

I feel your pain... that happened to me once, not 3 times.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Been there done that.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

I'm dumber than you Mark and I can prove it ! What I'm about to recount I thought I had sent a few hours ago, HOWEVER I failed to hit "send". Faux pas number 1. A few weeks ago at my granddaughter's 5th birthday party at our local indoor pool I was photographing her and 15 of her closest friends. I had the big gun out...the D610 with my MB-D14, 28-300. I'm walking around taking pic after pic before the admiring eyes of the parents who thought that I must be really good with this spectacular outfit. I put it down to play with my granddaughter and when I picked it back up to take the all important pics of all the kids around the birthday cake the camera WOULDN'T FOCUS. I turned beet red. Parents were asking for pics of their kids. I told them it was the MB-D14, I just got it, it was malfunctioning. I know, I know, it wouldn't affect the focus, but nobody questioned it. When I sat it down I had inadvertently flicked the body AF switch to M. One of the moms took over with her %^&$*& smart phone. They all know I'm 70 and that "those" things happen. After all there is only one perfect being and right now she's in the living room watching HGTV.

mffox Loc: Avon, CT

Mark: I can feel your pain. Just keep the wonderful memories alive.

Mark

timcc Loc: Virginia

Thanks for the helpful reminder, however painful. I'm sure half the Hoggers on this thread are pulling out their cameras to double-check their card-alert settings.

My usual stunt is to use the timer . . . and the next day miss a great shot by 2 seconds. At the least it's embarrassing, as you inadvertently get a selfie with a frowned look as you study the camera to figure out why it didn't fire.

therwol Loc: USA

markngolf wrote:

I've posted a few images and comments about my Son... (show quote)

Water under the bridge. Hey, an excuse to go back and do it again.

tenny52 Loc: San Francisco

I wonder if you checked the outcome of each picture taken?
If there were no card, no image would show. I think some camera let you shoot a few and use its internal memory so as to test out the camera without a card.
I hope you still have your memory.
You may download some from the web and keep them as your own.

Shootist Loc: Wyoming

Even the darkest cloud has a silver lining. Now you have an excuse to revisit these cities. I highly recommend you go in mid to late September, usually cooler weather and smaller crowds. Now that you know the "lay of the land" in these cities you can do them at your leisure.

markngolf wrote:

I've posted a few images and comments about my Son... (show quote)

Diocletian

Aw. Poor baby.

But now you’ll have an excuse to go back!

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

There are days and there are days. You had some days. Hopefully this will never happen again. But you are lucky, nothing happened to you or your bride and you will live another day for another trip in the future. Be safe.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Yes, I do chimp frequently. Since I had not enabled "no shooting without a card", I had no way of knowing there was not a card inserted. Some have responded with criticizing Sony for the default to allow shooting. I disagree. I take full responsibility for not knowing that. It's in the manual and supplementary books I had purchased.
Thanks for the response. We may return some day.
Mark

tenny52 wrote:

I wonder if you checked the outcome of each picture taken?
If there were no card, no image would show. I think some camera let you shoot a few and use its internal memory so as to test out the camera without a card.
I hope you still have your memory.
You may download some from the web and keep them as your own.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thank you all for your compassion, wonderful suggestions and similar anecdotes of personal "dumb" experiences. I do have the memories and I did manage to capture many good images. My wife fully recovered. We arrived home safely yesterday afternoon after 18 hours of travel time. On our last evening we had a marvelous dinner at Aszu restaurant in Budapest, where a trio consisting of a young violinist, father and uncle performed during our dinner. Great food, great ambiance! The trip was a fabulous experience and we are very thankful our dream of 42 years came to fruition.
Cheers without regrets!
Mark

markngolf wrote:

Yes, I do chimp frequently. Since I had not enabled "no shooting without a card", I had no way of knowing there was not a card inserted. Some have responded with criticizing Sony for the default to allow shooting. I disagree. I take full responsibility for not knowing that. It's in the manual and supplementary books I had purchased.
Thanks for the response. We may return some day.
Mark

swartfort Loc: Evansville, IN

How unfortunate, I totally empathize. I did this one time also and resolved to do this: I set the camera to lock. Then, a few weeks later, I grabbed the camera, left the house, and when I saw that perfect image, went to shoot, and ..... NO CARD.

So this is what I do, EVERY time I take a card out of the camera, I put a second card in directly. EVERY TIME. One card out, the other card in. When I charge my battery, I run the wrist strap around the drawer handle under the charger and have to physically detach it from the drawer to remind me that there is no battery in the camera.

We have all either been there, or will be there.

Ron Dial Loc: Cuenca, Ecuador

An old photographer I knew told me once (this about film cameras).

"Did you ever open the back of your camera when there was film loaded in it? Did you feel stupid? But did you close the back as fast as you could? Now do you feel real stupid trying to close the film back before the film was exposed? Now THAT was stupid"

So did you learn anything? If yes, then it was not a total waste.