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When your out and about and see a fantastic image/subject/composition and you have not taken out your camera..

Today, even worse, I took out my camera on the way to a job, saw a cock pheasant in breeding attire in a frozen plowed field, a buzzard perched in a tree scanning the fields, a black swan in a semi frozen pond.

Brilliant I thought........ pulled over and started to snap the swan .......

No card in the camera, I had forgot to put it back in after uploading an image. :mad:
 
Been there, once at a motoX event I shot for the first 5-10 min without reviewing my images till a lull in the action when I realised I had left my main SD card in the reader at home 50 miles away. Luckily I had my spare in the bag but man did I feel like a numpty:facepalm:
 
LeeRatters said:
That's unfortunate :(

And some people comment on transferring and then charging via USB. At least this situation can never arise.
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The camera gets left beside the reader while transfer's happening unless the card's been swapped out because it's full, in which case there's already a fresh card in the camera. JUST caught a camera when the (sadly departed and much missed) cat pulled the lead and dragged it off the table...
 
RyanB said:
Been there, once at a motoX event I shot for the first 5-10 min without reviewing my images till a lull in the action when I realised I had left my main SD card in the reader at home 50 miles away. Luckily I had my spare in the bag but man did I feel like a numpty:facepalm:
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Set you camera so that it won't fire without a card in it ????????????

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Barney said:
When your out and about and see a fantastic image/subject/composition and you have not taken out your camera..

Today, even worse, I took out my camera on the way to a job, saw a cock pheasant in breeding attire in a frozen plowed field, a buzzard perched in a tree scanning the fields, a black swan in a semi frozen pond.

Brilliant I thought........ pulled over and started to snap the swan .......

No card in the camera, I had forgot to put it back in after uploading an image. :mad:
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Always have a spare in your camera bag, especially with them being so cheap
 
I did a similar thing many years ago but with a film camera.

I knew I had few frames left on a roll and I was going to the shops the following morning so thought I'd get another film then. We were on the Isle of Skye and went to the Stein Inn for a meal. I took a couple of shots outside the pub and we went inside. We were then treated to one of the best sunset I've seen(people were going outside to see it) and I had one shot left.

Dave
 
Willid1 said:
Set you camera so that it won't fire without a card in it ????????????

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It was my first DSLR nearly 15 years ago, I wouldn't have had a clue how to do that then and since my cards never leave my cameras. I doubt if I looked at what I got that day I would be happy with any shots I took anyway. I am much more organised these days.(and less hungover) :LOL:
 
Some weeks ago I was shooting a marsh harrier, only to review the photos and I only took a couple shots......I forgot to switch to continuous shutter:banana:
 
oh it can get much worse. Start videoing and some nice person walks right across in front of you or just stands there
 
I have got into the habit of taking a shot as I leave the house, I also check the settings at the same time.
Too many times forgetting the card, having a flat battery or taking all the pictures at 260000000 ISO :)
 
Ed Sutton said:
If the card is out of the camera the door on the camera is left open as a visual reminder.
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I do this.
ancient_mariner said:
I would be concerned about breaking the door off.
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My Camera is on the computer desk, it is not going to fall off or tip over. as soon as the files are transferred, the card goes back into the camera and the door is closed. takes a couple of minutes at most.
 
I've never shot without a card, did shoot without a roll of film being attached to the wind on spool once though !
 
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ancient_mariner said:
I would be concerned about breaking the door off.
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Another thing I've just realised I do is press the playback button before I start shooting. That tells me if there's a card in the camera or not. I guess it's all about creating habits to avoid silly mistakes. I can make enough of them with a card in a camera!
 
artyman said:
I've never shot without a card, did shoot without a roll of film being attached to the wind on spool once though !
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Wasn't that fairly standard on some clubs' model nights???
 
I was at Sandhurst for my nieces passing out parade last summer.
Now it’s a fair walk from the car park to the parade ground. Especially when you have smart shoes and they have rubbed your heels raw on the way to the parade ground.
Got to our seats and as the family designated photographer, thought I should check exposure etc before the parade started.
Found I had left the battery back at the car.
Didn’t really fancy another 3 legs to the car and back again, but had no choice really.
As I set off I noticed a St John’s ambulance behind the stands and managed to get some plasters off them.
On the way I noticed one of the cadets driving an empty golf cart back to the car park and managed to hitch a lift
 
my camera has dual slots, i only ever take out the sd card to transfer pictures to the computer, so even if i forget the CF card is still in the camera, i have a spare sd card and cf card in the little pocket of my sling and one of each in my camera bag...
 
I’ve got into the habit of as soon as i take out the card to download the images i put in a spare
 
It's not happened to me for a few years now, but I've had a spare SD card in my wallet for a while now, just in case.
 
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I went out for a walk on a misty morning a couple of weeks ago, and decided to 'travel light' and take my Tamron 28-75 2.8 as my only lens option. Obviously, that morning there was a beautiful buzzard perched in the most photogenic spot, that stayed there for qiote some time, then moved onto the bare branches of a tree with an immaculate, clean misty background. Ive never missed not having my 200-600 with me as much as I did that day.
 
Nikon_Nick said:
I went out for a walk on a misty morning a couple of weeks ago, and decided to 'travel light' and take my Tamron 28-75 2.8 as my only lens option. Obviously, that morning there was a beautiful buzzard perched in the most photogenic spot, that stayed there for qiote some time, then moved onto the bare branches of a tree with an immaculate, clean misty background. Ive never missed not having my 200-600 with me as much as I did that day.
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This is the problem with FF cameras, large lenses are so heavy. That is why I gave up with Nikon and went over to M43 cameras instead. Shorter lighter lenses being the main reason but twice the mm range
 
Although I have spare cards, I use the camera stays out of the bag until I've put the card back in method. With compacts the camera sits on my computer desk, with DSLR's they "wait" on my sofa whie I download.
I use this method because not all my bags have spare cards in them.
 
At my last concert (Thronehammer) my SD card was full very quickly. Caught me off guard. Had to go backstage to check what was wrong- It turns out I had 32GB cards in both slots. Don't know why I did that :facepalm: Anyway I had bigger cards with me and put those in and carried on. Don't like leaving the stage area mid-set though, never know what you might miss...
 
I have been saved a few times by a card in the secondary slot on cameras. For a while I did try to keep a spare card in camera bags but I use a number of different ones and still ended up getting caught out, on one occasion an interesting plane was flying over the house and I grabbed a camera, took some shots...then had the dreaded no card error when I pressed the playback button.

I now always leave the memory door or slot open when I take the card out so if I go to the camera I can immediately tell the card is out. The camera is usually still sitting in a bag or similar so there's no risk to the door being damaged.

Although I frequently see people advocating for smaller memory cards with the logic the failure of the card means less photos lost, for a long time I've chosen higher capacity cards because I've lost photos on a couple of occasions when taking a large amount of photos/video and run out of space then had to change card. It's surprising how easy it is to burn through memory.

For years my choice of lens was a Nikon 28-300mm and now it's a 28-400mm. I was using a 28-200/100-400mm for a while but I kept finding I wanted the other lens on the camera and missed a shot. While the 28-400mm has a number of flaws it's still good enough and psychologically because it covers a lot of shooting I find I carry it around with me more.

Edit: This is really funny...I went to get the Cfast card out of my Z8 and noticed it was missing which was puzzling, I checked over on the reader and there it was so my open door method has failed me. Thankfully the camera had an SD card in it otherwise I'd have been particularly frustrated, I decided to try taking the Z8 out with me mountain biking last night and there's not many nights where there's so much snow so I would have been upset to have gone to the effort to take it to find there's no memory card. I had wondered why when looking back through images it seemed to be jumping back to some very old ones and should have been obvious that the Cfast card wasn't there.
 
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