And, in the space of one week, ONE MORE DUH!!!! OUCH!!
May 29, 2018 09:11:57 #
revhen wrote:
Welcome to the human race! We've all done something stupid. Who sang that? Nancy Sinatra?
"Saying something stupid like 'I love you.'"
May 29, 2018 09:29:25 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
rmalarz wrote:
In demo mode, a camera will capture an image and display it on the LCD. There doesn't need to be a card inserted in the camera to do that.
--Bob
--Bob
Even the cheapest Canon DSLR's have menu settings that will not allow the shutter to actuate without a memory card in place. I'll bet Nikons, Sonys and others do, too.
As an aside, before retirement I was photographing a wedding in the Dexter Ave Memorial Baptist Church of Martin Luther King fame in Montgomery, AL. During a lull a very nice young woman, friend of the bride, asked me if I knew how many images that the Canon Rebel's "internal memory" would hold. She mentioned that she had left her memory card in her hotel room and had been shooting right along using the camera's internal memory but was afraid that the memory would fill up before she got all the photos she wanted.
I explained what she had done, as gently as possible, showed her how to reset her camera to the setting for "don't shoot without memory card" or whatever it was called, then gave her an older compact flash card and wished her well. She asked for a business card and actually mailed the card back to me with a request to critique a few of her images.
The moral of the story, I guess is disable the "demo" mode if the camera has one and leave it off. Also the photography business is filled with pretenders who have entry level cameras with kit lenses who have gotten a few recognizable images and begun to hold themselves out as photographers. Along with excellent images (a must), consideration of others' feeling go a long way on the big day.
May 29, 2018 09:35:48 #
markngolf wrote:
Yes. With one slot that can't happen. Both of my Canon's have two slots.
Good to "talk" with you.
Mark
Good to "talk" with you.
Mark
Thank you Mark! Now I have a question. I think the purpose of having 2 cards so that you can have the camera writes to both cards and if one card fails you still have the picture. But what if a card fails as in bad contacts or something like that it would be similar to the situation where the card is not there isn't it?
May 29, 2018 09:38:49 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Thank you Mark! Now I have a question. I think the purpose of having 2 cards so that you can have the camera writes to both cards and if one card fails you still have the picture. But what if a card fails as in bad contacts or something like that it would be similar to the situation where the card is not there isn't it?
Good question. Now I’m going to have to do some testing (if I can find a bad card to try in one slot).
May 29, 2018 09:58:22 #
Mark, maybe I misunderstood but on my 7 d I shoot with only an SD card and leave the 2nd slot empty normally. Don't remember that being a problem
May 29, 2018 10:13:21 #
Get your shit together the night before when you are more lucid and awake. LOL
markngolf wrote:
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May 29, 2018 13:02:08 #
The card was locked, and therefor would not accept any images.
May 29, 2018 13:23:11 #
One reason I chimp.
I generally look at the past several images since I don't chimp on every shot.
I generally look at the past several images since I don't chimp on every shot.
May 29, 2018 13:46:32 #
I took a ton of pictures of Ken Griifey Jr. some, really close shots at the trop. I finally realized that film has a number of shots per roll, after I realized my stupidity I was so upset, game was over and that was the last time I ever had a chance to shoot a future hall of famer. I never let that happen again but for those pictures I would never get it was an extremely expensive lesson.
May 29, 2018 14:43:14 #
I wrote the following before I saw Smudgey's reply. Sorry for the reduncancy.
While I was reading your post, I thought you had spilled coffee on the SD card! Now my guess is that the proper card was in the camera, but the lock tab on it prevented writing to it. If one has a dual chip camera, this is another reason to use the second chip for backup, rather than additional storage.
While I was reading your post, I thought you had spilled coffee on the SD card! Now my guess is that the proper card was in the camera, but the lock tab on it prevented writing to it. If one has a dual chip camera, this is another reason to use the second chip for backup, rather than additional storage.
May 29, 2018 14:50:05 #
May 29, 2018 14:53:18 #
TriX wrote:
Good question. Now I’m going to have to do some testing (if I can find a bad card to try in one slot).
Use a locked card?
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