topic Re: are pictures saved? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

are pictures saved?

Lori1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:34:26 GMT

I have a Canon SL1. Took some photos without the SD card installed. Are those photos saved somewhere? Thanks!

Re: are pictures saved?

Waddizzle — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:53:01 GMT

Negative. I fear your photos have not been saved anywhere.

Re: are pictures saved?

diverhank — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:44:12 GMT

@Lori1 wrote:
I have a Canon SL1. Took some photos without the SD card installed. Are those photos saved somewhere? Thanks!

Like Waddizzle had stated, those pictures are gone forever. I recommend turning that option off (not allowing taking pictures without card).

Once I had stumbled upon a beautiful fly (yes I know I'm weird) that really cooperated with me, setting up my camera for a long macro session where I took several hundred pictures and they looked gorgeous on the LCD (I could see the lenses on its eyes). Much to my chagrine, I did not have any memory card and my could-ve-been-great pictures were non-existent. Still beat myself up over that incident (happened 4 years ago)

Re: are pictures saved?

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:18:16 GMT

You need to go into Menu and disable the option that allows taking photos without card.

I dont understand why Canon sets the default as Enable on consumer level cameras that will likely be used by beginners.