Who's a silly girl then?

[Bayla]

On Monday which was a Bank Holiday in the UK, dh and I went out walking and I grabbed my camera, tripod and a spare lens. Took a fair number of pictures, mostly different textures - peeling fences, cracks in the soil, muddy tracks (as per Dave Cross's suggestion in his last video) as well as some great flower images......

but.....I have just found my CF card.......where I left it on Sunday......still in the card reader on my computer desk:o:eek::(

Bayla

[elwoodsusanm]

Put it down to a 'senior moment' - I have them all the time :)

[JulieM]

Bayla,

That must have been maddening!

Does your camera, have a setting to "shoot without CF card"? When mine is set like that, it is possible to shoot without the card but a message appears on the screen saying there is no card inserted. If that option isn't checked (the default, I believe), the camera won't shoot at all without the card. Of course, I can still get out of the house before I discover my card isn't in the camera, but I do keep a smaller back-up in my camera bag. :)

[msbrad]

Oh Bayla!!! Sorry sorry to hear that happened to you.
I've not done that yet, but once attended a paper scrapbooking crop, and left the photographs at home.
m

[vawitt]

Done that......:o:o but my camera will hold a whopping NINE images in internal memory, so ... phew... saved the day (not!)

~Val

[mljrbg]

Bayla, I'm sorry that happened. Sounds like something I might do!! It is so frustrating when you realize what happened. Hopefully you will be able to recreate some of the photos when the memory card is in your camera.

Mary Lou

[kevq]

Bayla,
oh dear, a definite senior moment!! So sorry that it happened:eek:
Kev.

[SharLamb]

Back in the old days of FILM, my mother drove 5 hours to some touristy destination (may have been the Grand Canyon), took pictures galore and couldn't figure out why she never reached the end of her roll. She found out when she got back to the motel. No film in the camera for this once-in-a-lifetime event! aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh

Shar

[kImages]

Oh Bayla! Well, look on the bright side; you now have a reason to take that nice walk again, and practice makes perfect on getting images. :)

[Bayla]

Shar,

You've just reminded me of something that happened nearly 17 years ago when #5 son was born. At the time we had a Yashica SLR (BTW the best film SLR we ever had!) and we duly took it to the hospital where we shot loads of images of our newborn (that was back in the days when to take 36 pictures was a lot & if you were very clever with loading the film you could sometimes manage to coax up to 40 exposures out of a roll of 36)!)....and carried on shooting at home for another THREE weeks, wondering all the time why we weren't reaching the end of the film.

Anyway, you guessed it, someone (it wasn't my job, I was in labour don't forget!) has forgotten to load the film, and so I have no pictures of the first three weeks of my son's life....and at times he thinks this is proof positive that he was adopted!!

Bayla

[SharLamb]

OMG! That's worse than missing out on the Grand Canyon. There are lots of pictures of it you can buy, and it doesn't change much in three weeks! On the other hand, the older I get, and the more grandchildren I accumulate, the more I think all babies look the same if they're in the same general race! You should never have told him...just substituted some pictures of some of his brothers ("OH MY! Doesn't he look like....") LOL :D And I am amazed when I look back on the newborn pictures of my own children...how gorgeous I thought they were, and now, given 29 to 35 years of objectivity, how, hmmm...(how do I say it??)...NOT gorgeous they were! LOL Of course, all of my grandchildren are spectacular! ;) Our first born was born a couple weeks early and we lived across the country from both sets of grandparents. I can only imagine what they thought when they saw pictures of this shriveled up, wrinkly, purple, monkey-looking creature (who we thought, as I mentioned was adorable). :O I'm sure each set of grandparents was blaming the other for the defective gene pool! And they were too far away to come and comfort us! LOL And not that I hold much stock in outward appearances (to me it is the inner person that counts), he turned out handsome in the end...for many years looked a lot like Tom Cruise...but oh dear...what a start. Enough digression. Back to improving photos. ;) Shar

[efarnstrom]

What a lesson to learn the hard way. My first disaster was when I was a teen. Shot three rolls of film and not one picture was developed! All blanks. Thanks to the development of digital that doesn't happen to me any more. Also, my camera will not turn on if the card is missing. Another good thing, I think.

[30DRon]

Back in the old days of FILM, my mother drove 5 hours to some touristy destination (may have been the Grand Canyon), took pictures galore and couldn't figure out why she never reached the end of her roll. She found out when she got back to the motel. No film in the camera for this once-in-a-lifetime event! aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh

Shar


Been there, done that.
Got the T-Shirt, saw the movie, got the hat.

West coast of Vancouver Island, the open Pacific and a beautiful sunset. Memories only. No pictures. Film was in camera, but had not engaged on the take-up spool.

[Ric Cisson]

You know over the decades that I helped tourists at the counter with their photographic experiences, it never ceased to amaze me, in the days of film, how many problems I resolved, when we determined in the dark box that the film was not loaded properly or there was no film in the camera. I would venture to say that on the average of 3 or 4 times a week we would see this situation crop up with a visitor to Sedona, and you talk about the Grand Canyon, so let us say 3 times a week, 52 weeks a year, 25 years in the same location, and let us just say each was a 24 exposure roll of film. That comes in at 93,600 images that were "lost" over the span of 25 years, and that is only the ones we knew about coming into the lab. Now that is alot of images lost forever...think about it. Today we worry about corrupt cards, hard drives crashing, CD/DVD's failing, flash drives failing. Do you sense that the risks are even greater today than they were with film, or are they less or the same? Ah...what a debate we could have, huh?

I can honestly say that, once, yes once in my lifetime I forgot to load a roll of film in the camera, I remember it to this day, I had just turned 18 that day and it was a new Voightlander rangefinder that I had saved my summer earnings to purchase for myself, all $800.00, so excited and I went out to use the new camera, but did not load the film...:o

[Bayla]

once, yes once in my lifetime I forgot to load a roll of film in the camera,

I think it's something that you took care never to repeat!

Bayla

[Inspeqtor]

Back in 1966 my parents, my brother and I drove from Indiana out to Las Vegas to visit my other brother who was living there at the time. He had been stationed at the Air Force base out there (can't remember the name of the base right now, another senior moment!). We also went to the Grand Canyon. I had loaded a roll of film for my father's camera, but alas the film did not catch on the spool. My father took a bunch of pictures that never got on the film. Boy was he mad at me for awhile!! :o

He did finally get over it :)

[TonyW]

Been there, done that and I must admit I also have a bad habit of leaving my card in the card reader. I've had to develop a routine of always pointing the camera out of the window and taking a shot before I leave home just to check everything is working and always glancing at the LCD preview (which I have set on the histogram view) after taking a shot. Still don't always get it right and I've been caught with a dead battery and no spare :o. One reason I like SD cards (you can buy another one almost everywhere) and AA batteries (ditto).

Tony

[NickLewis]

but.....I have just found my CF card.......where I left it on Sunday......still in the card reader on my computer desk:o:eek::(I did this about two months ago - on an unrepeatable visit to Cosmonauts' Alley in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. :(

I've reset my camera custom functions now to prevent it happening again .... I haven't stopped kicking myself yet for enabling it while I was testing some camera control software......

Nick

[Byron Gale]

Thankfully, my D80 has several methods of helping me remember to keep a card in the camera. The status display that shows the number of shots remaining shows a big "-E-", both on the external display and in the viewfinder. In addition, an icon indicating "no card" blinks in the viewfinder. And I have enabled the "no shooting allowed if no card" option.

I bet I still find a way to mess it up, some day!!

[gez]

On Connor's birthday (the actual day of his birth) I was in the hospital within hours of the delivery with my brand new 5D. I snapped away like crazy only to find when I got home there was no CF card in the camera. I went back and reshot, but it just wasn't the same. A painful lesson that won't happen again thanks to "shoot w/o card--OFF"