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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.