I thought the K-5 had a menu option to switch the dry fire on and off. Perhaps not. In any case, I make a habit of checking the histrogram on the first frame I shoot, so I'm immediately alerted to a missing card. I would think that very few shooters fire off a bunch of shots without even looking at the review image or histogram. Paul On Apr 23, 2012, at 6:09 AM, David Mann wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2012, at 7:53 PM, John Francis wrote: > >> The *ist-D had a setting that would prevent shutter tripping without a >> card in the camera, but that may well have been the only Pentax DSLR to >> have this function. > > Maybe they want people to be able to dry-fire the camera in the shop without > getting confused? Just a wild guess. > > I'd suggest the camera should at least beep when you take a photo without a > card. > > Not that I'd suffer from this because I leave the card in the camera and > download using the USB cable. > > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
