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Rebel xt memory use I was wondering, all you digital rebel xt users. I justed purchased this camera and there is a feature to shoot without card, but you can't view the images, Why don't this camera have a built in memory like the little cheap point & shoot? I've read the manual, but it don't go in to details about shooting without a card, but the camera has this feature. Please respond
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Bob Chance |
Not trying to be sarcastic, but the reason it doesn't have internal memory is because it's NOT a "cheap point & shoot" camera. DSLR's are already expensive enough compared to P&S, and adding internal memory would only increase the price of the camera. My 20D also allows you to shoot without a card. Agin, the manual gives no real explanation for why anyone would not want to shoot that way seeing there is no memory to store even a single shot for preview. But I will try to take a stab in the dark for a couple of reason why one might want to shoot that way. First reason might be simply to check the cameras function without taking pictures. You can tell if a lot from the sights and sounds of the camera. Is the aperature stopping down? Is the shutter opening and closing as it should? Secondly, if you are using a remote on the camera and multiple flashes, it would give you a means of metering the flash output from the subject without haveing actually taking pictures that you would only have to go back and delete anyway. And thirdly, some pros, when working with new, nervous models, would actually take a lot of shots of the model, without ever putting film in the camera. They do this to get the model use to posing in front of the camera and give them time to get over thier nervousness or anxiety without wasting film on them. Once the photographer feels the model is relaxed enough, then he'll load film in the camera and take pictures. Shooting without a card allows a photographer to do this, without having to take time to delete all the worthless shots or change the CF card. Beyond that, I can't think of any other reaons why one would shoot without a card if you can't at least view your results. Perhaps someone else has something else to point out to us.
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Brendan Knell |
I don't know if this is completely wrong, but I'll say it anyway. Could this be for you to shoot with your camera connected to your computer, so it saves it directly to the computer? I think this is called having your camera tethered. I know the new Hasselblad digitals can do this, becase their images are so big. Again, I don't have the XT, so this is just a shot in the dark.
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Bob Chance |
Not neccessarily! I'm not familiar with Canons program for captureing images from the computer, but another manufacturers program that I have used, Remote Pro, gives you the option of saving the image either to your cameras card, the computer or both. I would imagine most of the other programs would allow you the same. I don't know for certain if there are programs out there that would only save an image to the computer if the camera didn't have a card. Good question though!
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Andrew Laverghetta |
my bet is going to go for the functionality check. You can set it to not shoot unless there's a card in there if you tend to forget, but otherwise, in my 20D I can shoot without a card and if I have the reply set, I can view a least a thumbnail of the image as it passed through the buffer and into nothingness. I think some people call this a "playback camera" because it lets you shoot without a card like that. I think it would be irritating if you were just messing around sometimes and you just wanted to hear it make a sound haha, or mess around with certain functions without having to format the memory card each time. Say you're trying to learn how to do something or use a custom function and the photos won't be of any value to you. It lets you go through with the action as it would normally be, but it just doesn't save the file. I think it'd be depressing if you can't just shoot a camera to shoot it. I think in archery terms this is called dry-firing? Or at least it has a similar idea. Also, the camera doesn't have an internal memory drive because it would be a waste of space. If you use this camera, you will probably have a hefty card since even the largest internal memory in point and shoot cameras would hold maybe 5 photos which wouldn't do you much good.
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Bob Chance |
Thanks for the input Andrew. I hardly ever use the auto preview function as it's just one of those little things that can drain a battery quickly. So I never thought about the idea that by using the auto preview, one could see an image shot without the card. But like you said, it would only be breifly before going into oblivion. Would really tick me off if it looked like a really great shot and there was no way to save it. Especially if it was one of those kinds of shots that you could never reproduce. LOL!!! That would be just my luck. Best to leave the card in place.
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anonymous |
Ha ha ha ha ha ha "like the little cheap point & shoot?"
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