Not only is the setting stupid, the default is even stupider. I did that once and found the setting and turn it to not letting me shoot without a card in.
I bet most of us have learned the hard way. -- Bruce Saturday, April 16, 2005, 7:21:56 PM, you wrote: DS> Because of the greater speed I started using a card reader DS> last week instead of the ist-D's USB cable. DS> I just came back in from shooting the sunset to find that DS> my CF card was still in the reader! DS> I just turned off the "shutter release w/o CF" custom function. DS> This is set to ON by default, what a stupid default setting. DS> The camera does warn you breifly on the LCD, but if you DS> don't notice it you can just go on shooting all day. DOH! DS> Don
