Short story. Starring R-D1.

[isorgb]

Today I took some beautiful pictures with my R-D1.
Beautiful light, great frame, plenty of emotion in every picture. Really, I was in a trance so that every shot was just perfect. I experienced incredible moments...
but...
there was not SD Card ;-)

What you had cases with R-D1?

Cheers!

 

[Jim-st]

Thanks for sharing this. You make me feel better about my chimping habit, so often denigrated hereabouts.
Tough on you though! My sympathy is real

 

[filmfan]

The images exist in this situation just as much as they do if you had an SD card... shoot film and your images actually exist! (I am a shallow, tangible-based believer...)

 

[dacookieman]

The images exist in this situation just as much as they do if you had an SD card... shoot film and your images actually exist! (I am a shallow, tangible-based believer...)

I believe in this case, some have actually forgotten to put film in camera thinking that they did. Or that the film was not properly in the spool.

I hate to have that happen to me, *touch wood*.

 

[isorgb]

I don't watch every shot on LCD and R-D1 can "take picture" without SDcard.
Film or SD card in this case is the same.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

"Am there! Doing that!"

Though in my case it was only for five minutes and I didn't come across any scenes that were important enough to save for posterity. ...things like UFOs, Big Foots (or is that Big Feet in plural?) 😉

 

[DRabbit]

Today I took some beautiful pictures with my R-D1.
Beautiful light, great frame, plenty of emotion in every picture. Really, I was in a trance so that every shot was just perfect. I experienced incredible moments...
but...
there was not SD Card ;-)

What you had cases with R-D1?

Cheers!

Don't feel too bad... happened to me today with the M8!
I went down to one of my favorite beach during sunset, was getting some good shots (so I thought) and then noticed "5d" flashing in the viewfinder. Perplexed, I kept wondering if it was some strange error code letting me know the shutter was about to fail or something.

Then I realized - not "5d" stupid... "sd"... as in SD Card!

Crap.

 

[monkeypainter]

We should start a thread:

"Post your best shots with lens cap on/ No SD Card /No film"

 

[Johnmcd]

The images exist in this situation just as much as they do if you had an SD card... shoot film and your images actually exist! (I am a shallow, tangible-based believer...)

So the majority of professional photographers get paid good money for taking non-existent photos?

 

[Mr_Flibble]

A bit like "The best bands are the ones nobody has ever heard" ?

 

[filmat]

Happened once. I went with my friends and their families to spend a day in a forest near town. Everyone was so happy that I was taking great photos of their kids until I discovered at the end that there was no sd card. I was shocked and could only reveal this news painfully the second day 🙂 The only time when I hated the r-d1

The second worse story starring the r-d1: i was no longer able to take pix on a great journey in the mountains. The shutter would not fire. I thought it was jammed. Only to discover later that the SD card that I inserted was locked. A simple message on the lcd would have done but... that's the r-d1, its other side 🙂

 

[porktaco]

 

[wayneb]

I realize this could some day happen to me, what I've been doing so far is to always leave the SD door open when there is no SD card, so I can't pick it up and not notice.

I assume this is the most common tip, but if anyone has others, I'd like to know.

 

[wgerrard]

It's a Zen thing.

PortTaco: That looks remarkably like a famous guitar player.

 

[porktaco]

that's exactly who it is

 

[morgan]

That's awesome. Maybe he's too busy contemplating getting Cream back together.

 

[djonesii]

I don't have mine here at work, but as I recall, there is a flashing light somewhere in the viewfinder that clues you into this, and a warning on the screen when you first turn it on.

Dave

 

[SteveM_NJ]

porktaco - very nice capture.
"Guitar Playing"-a natural master,
"Rangefinder Photography"- a mortal, just like the rest of us.

 

[-doomed-]

I believe in this case, some have actually forgotten to put film in camera thinking that they did. Or that the film was not properly in the spool.

I hate to have that happen to me, *touch wood*.

Forgetting to load film , isnt that something that happened with a photographer who took plenty of pictures of Marylin Monroe only to realize in his excitement to get these shots he forgot the film and had to return the next day to do it all over again.

 

[swoop]

My M8, D2x and even my P&S let me know when there's no card in the camera. There has to be a setting somewhere in the menu.

I've also never miss loaded film. It's easily noticeable when you wind the lever. If there's no film it gives too easily. That and the rewind should turn with each frame.