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

bokehmon22 wrote:

Noogy wrote:

pedz wrote:

I don't want to start the debate if the EOS R is a pro body or not. I'm fine declaring that it is not. But one of the nits against it is it has only one card slot and "no pro would ever use it" is stated emphatically very often. So, I'm curious.

I'm an avid amateur that might make a few dollars here and there on my photography and I have a nice job to pay for my toys. The few professional photographers I've known tended to be on an extremely tight budget and had consumer grade bodies that were a few years old. I've also got this hint from some YouTube videos.

I'm curious if you use a body with dual card slots and you have it set up to copy each image to both cards.

I think if I was really worried, I would cycle through a lot of small cards and, if I could afford it, have a pocket PC that could backup the cards as they got full to safer storage rather than trusting the camera to do the backup. The camera doing the backup still has a single point of failure and a firmware glitch in the camera seems more likely than today's cards having the glitch. To rephrase, it seems like both copies the camera is making are going to get damaged more often than just one copy.

I've done both paid and probono gigs. I've been using the EOS R with single card slot more often than my 5DMIV over the past three months.

That's like saying I haven't been wearing a seat belt and never got into an accident for the last 3 months.

It also depends on the type of paid jobs. If it's a family, engagement, HS senior, family session, portrait, birthday, I have no problem using EOS R.

It can be redo. I will even give them discount for the troubles if my SD card is corrupted.

Elaborate wedding and especially one that's 50-100K for one wedding, I wouldn't want to test how lucky I am or deal with lawsuits.

Do you even know the EOS R can sync all photos real time to my smartphone? And therefore I have a back up copy of all photos in another digital media, without having to use two memory cards?

By paid gigs I'm talking engagement with Fortune 500 companies, doctors of a top hospital with almost a thousand beds, etc. A lot of them make wedding photography look like anemic in terms of fees. It is an illusion to assume wedding photography is the summit of paid engagement in the first place, therefore for some of them to suggest they should be the more demanding ones is only true in the swollen heads of such photographers.