Took pictures without my memory card on a canon rebel xs. Can I still get them back?

[Spiderwing]

I was rushing to an event due to bad weather and ended up forgetting my SD card in my card reader -_- Couldn't go back and get it because the first part of the event was well under way by the time I got there.

Though I eventually got my SD card back between the break, are the pictures I took lost forever of the first part of the event? or does The Rebel XS have an internal memory that I can access with some program?

Hope you can answer me please !

 

[Aaron801]

I don't know that camera specifically, but I doubt it. Any digital camera that I've seen is either designed with no internal memory at all or is just able to save a single "sample" photo.
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[Oly Canikon]

Sorry, bad news. They are lost. There is a menu setting that will not allow it to take pictures with no card. That will stop you from accidentally taking pictures with no card.

 

[Boomanbb]

The first menu item I change on a new camera is to switch off the ability to take pictures without a memory card inserted. Has saved my butt several times.

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[T3]

I was rushing to an event due to bad weather and ended up forgetting my SD card in my card reader -_- Couldn't go back and get it because the first part of the event was well under way by the time I got there.
Though I eventually got my SD card back between the break, are the pictures I took lost forever of the first part of the event? or does The Rebel XS have an internal memory that I can access with some program?

Hope you can answer me please !

No Canon DSLRs have internal memory. I don't know of any DSLR that has internal memory. That means there's no way of retrieving any of your images, because they were never recorded.

This is why I always carry a spare SD card in my wallet. SD cards are so thin, it's good insurance to carry an extra SD card in your wallet. Plus, SD cards are so cheap these days, I keep them everywhere. I have one in my wallet, a couple in my car, a couple in my messenger bag, one in every camera I own, etc. If an SD card comes out of my camera (like when I'm downloading from it), another one immediately goes into the camera. You may not want to go to such extremes, but you should at least have a spare!

 

[tkbslc]

Just adding to the consensus - pictures were never recorded anywhere. They are gone.

 

[Mark B.]

I was rushing to an event due to bad weather and ended up forgetting my SD card in my card reader -_- Couldn't go back and get it because the first part of the event was well under way by the time I got there.
Though I eventually got my SD card back between the break, are the pictures I took lost forever of the first part of the event? or does The Rebel XS have an internal memory that I can access with some program?

Hope you can answer me please !

I'm afraid you are out of luck. There is no internal memory on Canon DSLRs. Although it may well show a preview of the image you just captures, unless there is a card in the camera there is nowhere to save it.

That's a hard lesson to learn. Always have more than 1 card available, and keep the extras in a memory card holder with the camera. Immediately after copying from the card to your computer (and doing a backup!), remove the card from the reader and format it in the camera so you're ready for the next shoot right away.


Mark

 

[Leonard Migliore]

I strongly suspect that the default setting for this is that the camera won't "take a picture" without a memory card; I'm not even sure when it's appropriate to do this.

Edit:

Hah! I just looked at my D300 manual and, strangely enough, Nikon's default is to enable shutter release with no memory card. This seems counterintuitive to me. I don't know Canon's default here.

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[Corkcampbell]

You didn't have an extra card with you? Duh...I always have one on me in my wallet, as another poster mentioned. Even if I don't have a camera with me, I always have the spare card. If I have a camera with me, I have several cards. I carry as a daily habit a small Sony RX100M3 in a felt bag and there are a couple of extra cards in that bag as well as an extra battery.

 

[Mark B.]

I strongly suspect that the default setting for this is that the camera won't "take a picture" without a memory card; I'm not even sure when it's appropriate to do this.

Edit:

Hah! I just looked at my D300 manual and, strangely enough, Nikon's default is to enable shutter release with no memory card. This seems counterintuitive to me. I don't know Canon's default here.

 

[donaldsc]

You only own 1 card? I own a whole bunch and when I take one card out of the camera for whatever reason, I put a new empty one into the camera.

This is just an obvious good habit to get into.