are pictures saved?

[Lori1]

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

[Waddizzle]

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

[diverhank]

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@Lori1 wrote:

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

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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)

[jrhoffman75]

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.