Comments on: The “No Memory Card” Gotcha

By: Brandon Lunday

Brandon Lunday — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:29:31 +0000

Thanks alot Nikon for something I had no use for unless I was in the store looking at buying your camera. Canons looking pretty good right now except they have the same feature.
I was shooting a patient in a hospital and actually showed them the photos when I was done. Now they will have to come back so I can shoot again. I have never heard of this until now.

By: Oslik

Oslik — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:28:12 +0000

Thanks a lot!

By: Links - December 5, 2008 « Photo Notes: Photography by Patty Hankins and Bill Lawrence

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:10:09 +0000

[...] PhotoWalkPro has a warning about the “No Memory Card” Gotcha. [...]

By: Friday Wraps « Central Illinois Photoblog

Friday Wraps « Central Illinois Photoblog — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:48:14 +0000

[...] ¶One thing you can do with your DSLR (probably) is you can actually fire the shutter without having a memory card in the camera. And you can generally do it over and over thinking you have a card in place. The camera holds the image in its buffer long enough for you to see the image on the back of the camera. Fortunately, most camera makers give you little clues that you don’t have the card in place. Hopefully this will keep you from making a very large mistake. Jeff Revell walks you through the process of locking yourself out if you don’t have a card in place. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:12 +0000

I can’t speak to the other Nikon models, but the D90 ships with the “No Memory Card?” setting at “Release locked” by default – if you want to shoot that camera without a card, you have to go to the effort of setting that up yourself.

By: Photoshop Insider » Friday "Photoshop Insider" News Nuggets

Photoshop Insider » Friday "Photoshop Insider" News Nuggets — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:37:19 +0000

[...] Revell (from PhotoWalkPro.com) did a nice piece recently called “The No Memory Card Gotcha,” and he used photos of both Canon and Nikon cameras in the piece. I remember thinking, “Man, [...]

By: Mike Nelson Pedde

Mike Nelson Pedde — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:36:13 +0000

Reminds me of a day back about 26 years ago when I made some absolutely fantastic images of a white-tailed deer doe, several songbirds, etc. and realized about 3:00 p.m. I was shooting without film in the camera. No warning for that one…

Mike.

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:15 +0000

Thanks Alan,
My lighting setup was pretty basic. I used one Nikon SB-800 shooting through a white Westcott diffusion panel that was placed to the front right of the camera. I used a second flash, an SB600, with a dome modifier that was placed to the front left of the camera being photographed. I controlled the whole thing from the built in flash on a Nikon D300. I had the main flash set to +1 and the fill (SB600) set to -1 1/3. I shot on a white paper surface with a white fabric background. I then took the shots into Lightroom, adjusted the exposure for the camera, opened the image in Photoshop, used Fluid Mask to knock out the camera and put it on a new background. I added a gradient to the background and a little shadow for the camera and presto, a nice little product shot.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:57:44 +0000

This is weird – back when there was actual film in the camera we would look at the top to see the number of exposures left. Now that we’re digital we can’t notice the -E- at the top to let us know that we don’t have a card inserted? (Speaking from a Nikon perspective, I don’t know what Canon does)

I always look for the -E- on my display. If I have anything other than that I can work with it (delete images, shoot jpeg, etc) but if I’m at -E- then I know I’m screwed. It’s a quick check before heading out the door.

How did going to digital change this?

Agreed – change the default setting to make it NOT take a picture and toss in a 128MB (or whatever’s cheaper) for the camera store display models. But, isn’t this the way it was with film? I remember shooting without film… good days.

By: Alan B.

Alan B. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:20:54 +0000

Although basic stuff, I’m this info sure will prove valuable to many of your readers. Let me also mention, great job on the photos showing the camera screens. How many strobes and what kind of modifiers?

Alan B.