You mean the wrong tool that screwed up shooting a sailboat race when a A7rIII got splashed aboard our boat? Or do you mean the wrong tool when my friend's Sony fried on a hot day? The same guy also had a Canon go south, so wrong tool again. No cards went bad, so clearly avoiding Canon and Sony is the key to responsible shooting
I can find gazillions of threads in this forum alone where people narrates their misfortunes with a
Nikon camera that got damaged by water. As for the Sony it should have shut down before becoming too hot. So it had a defect. Again I can find tons of threads about
Nikon cameras which turned out defective.
I know EXACTLY what happened to the Sony now. But I'm not a troll and I'll just say I'm not EVER buying a A7rIII. It's well documented that the Nikon pro bodies are better sealed and tougher than Sony's, so what are you on about now?
A very few anecdotal stories prove nothing. They don't prove that Sony or Canon are less or more prone to failures. The fact is all manufacturers have failures. Goggle blinking green light of death and see how many cameras failed with that very same catastrophic failure and … oh,wait … these were all Nikon cameras. It was so bad that Nikon had to issue a service advisory for the D70.
Yeah, you should sell your Nikon stuff. It's really much worse than Sony!
You like to draw a false equivalency between your berating cameras and buyers and my optimistic views on a camera NONE OF US HAVE SEEN TESTED.
Someone just posted a clip showing how a Z body does video. Looks pretty dang amazing. If the card issue is so huge for your "pro" work, then don't buy it. But what's your end-game in bothering pros who can make profitable use of it? How is that an issue for you?
It's hilarious, all this hysteria. I was recently on a set and some guy with a Canon is trying to explain to me how I might like Canon better. Meanwhile my day rate is 10 times what he makes. I think you'd be well served by letting people work the way THEY WANT. You're in no position to do otherwise.
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You can scream hysterically about two cards for the rest of your life, dude. I don't care. Most people who do care, only care because of the hysteria,
You only call it hysteria because it is a negative comment about a Nikon camera. If the Sony cameras were the one without the dual card slot you'd be writing pros will never use a Sony camera because it does not have that feature.
Sorry, but go find my 500 complaints about Sony card slots. BZZZZZZT! You lose again. My main complaint for Sony has been the same...lousy handling and build. They're excellent cameras that I don't care for. Do you see me posting about it in the Canon forums? NO. Do we have Sony people here bashing Nikon? Yup. Kinda obvious what the deal is.
not from any real knowledge or experience.
I take no offense: everybody who disagrees with you - is, in your words, "hysteric", and has "no real knowledge and experience". That's easily 90% of the members of this forum so at least I am in good company
No amount of liability insurance would make for the loss. And negligence in handling a customer's images is negligence, regardless of the insurance.
Good lord. Such drama. My friends have shot thousands of events. No one's lost images or even film...what are you ON about?
There are enough reports of XQD failures - as others have shown you - therefore there is
no reason to take the chance of losing data by using a camera without the dual slot feature. Failures are not common but not rare either, just like everything with electronics.
Okay, so you can buy into that and avoid all single slot cameras. Great! So....BYE!
BTW, I'm about to start working on my film shortly...using Arri cameras. No backup on those either.
And you would not consider another camera if a competitor offered a back up feature ? If so you have questionable work practices.
LOL. Here we go again. My "questionable work practices" allow me to be currently shopping for a new Beneteau Oceanis 38.1 sailing yacht. I'll pay cash.
Don't you think that I've done okay? Let me know when those double slots pay off for you. And by the way....with a D850 and Z6 in my bag, I'll have a backup camera AND an extra slot!
But you know that. Indeed you're saying it yourself: you have two back-up photogs (not just one!) if something goes wrong. So in fact you do take precautions against the remote chance of lost data. Does it matter if the images you give to the customer comes from your memory card or from your assistant. No, of course, it does not, as long as you don't come to that customer empty handed.
I don't shoot weddings. But my friends hire for COVERAGE, not backup. So silly. My friend recently shot a wedding that was on three floors of a building and required a lot of coverage. In spite of the blind terror of imminent card failure, it went pretty well.
Even when the risks are small they is no reason to take a chance. Many wedding photographers have not had a camera failure and yet they take precautions, including bringing with them a back-up camera. That's because anecdotical stories like the story you tell above proves nothing.
You really have me shaking in my boots, dude! My stories prove nothing. Your stories prove everything.
So...what's your end-game in bothering pros who can make profitable use of it? How is that an issue for you? Why not leave happy Nikon shooters and successful pros alone???
Hmmmm?
Wanna see the new yacht? It has TWO wheels! ;-)
Rob
