If you are a pro, do you use two card slots for backup? Locked

360iViews wrote:

Rock and Rollei wrote:

As a pro, I use 2 cards when the camera has the facility, but don't get too hung up on it.

I always use the biggest cards I can, though, as the greatest risk is when changing cards - I try to make sure I only ever have to do it under controlled conditions, when I can back it up immediately; I'm also seriously worried about physically losing cards.

This.

As another full time working pro (100% of my income is photography), the fact that a camera has two card slots is like, I dunno, not in the top 5 of things I look for in a camera. It just isn't. Fact is, when I was shooting back in the film days, there were far more problems with image loss. Remember those days? Anyone? Anyone? No?

Also, this debate as to whether the R is a "pro camera" is ridiculous. The majority of us who are working pros (not the occasional print seller) have enough $ense to understand that a camera is a tool. We choose our tools based upon our needs, be it functionality or price. Just because some keyboard pounder or vlogger (who doesn't understand the business of photography) has deemed a camera unworthy, does not make it so. Stick a Rebel, an AE-1, a Graflex or a Brownie in our hands, and our results would still be the same - we will make money in this profession because we get the formula to being a professional photographer, which 90% business and 10% photography.

Absolutely agree. I have 40 years of commercial photography - film and digital -and  I have had more issues with gear failures  other than cards than with cards. Call me ancient ( its probably true and  don't care) but where it matters I use two cameras, not one and alternate them by shot all Job. Two 6ds (which cost the same as a 5dIV) are safer than the 2 card 5d - or a single D750.

Gosh i hope i don't have to go back to making money with a brownie....