On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Apr 21, 2011, at 14:45, Darren Addy wrote: > >> I did a silly thing yesterday. On the way home from work (about 7 >> miles down the road) I passed a big flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds >> (something you see rarely around here. I think they just migrate >> through in the Spring). So I went around the block, grabbed my K-x put >> on my Pentax-F 70-210 and started firing away as they came and went >> around this small tree. When I paused to look down to see what I had >> captured, I got the dreaded "NO CARD IN CAMERA" message. They were >> both left at the office. Doh. >> > > When I take my card out to download files, I make it a point to leave the > door on the camera open. > > This way, I never pick up an empty camera and assume it's ready to shoot. > > -Charles > Every time I do that, I remember stories I have read here about about the card door being broken off because of some incident during the time the door was left open. And I would rather be caught with no card in the camera (been there, done that!) than to risk damage to the camera.
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