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

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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.

Yes I do know it can be sync by a smart phone. I used to owned one. It's extra hassle to set it up too. Every time you turn it off, you have to set it up. During the entire days, are you going to set it up each and every time along with battery drain to your smart phone and DSLR.

It was so important for you to bragged about you being a pro using one SD card but failed to disclose you even used back up to your smart phone until I call you out on it.

"I've been using the EOS R with single card slot more often than my 5DMIV over the past three months."

I work in a hospital and a medical professional. I can understand if some photographer we hire for fundraising events or head shots had a corrupt SD card. It is not the same thing as corrupting SD card for someone most importance event in their life.

You don't get to define the standard for back up just because of that business model. When you're covering a merger and acquisition event, the announcement, the closing for a multi million dollar deal, that qualifies as once in a lifetime for many of the executives involved.

Lastly don't assume I use my phone as back up all the time. I don't. Hardly, ever. I sync photos almost after every shoot to my phone or laptop for quick sharing. Electronically transferring files I think are safer than physically removing and reinserting cards in the first place. Maybe that's part of the reason I've not had to worry about failing cards. I've also rarely used a back up photographer, only when the clients ask for it.

Oh by the way, it's not your fault to live in a litigious country.

Everyone let's take the advice of someone who doesn't live in the US who mostly shoot landscape from his portfolio http://www.pbase.com/joshcruzphotos

/roll eyes

I'm not sure what back up photographer got to do with second card slot. They are called second photographer.

Every one, not every one shares portfolio of PRIVATE clients, especially in the corporate space and weddings. It's enough that I have shared a few where permitted. I source my clients by word of mouth so my online album does not serve a marketing purpose. Just the same, stop this BS of alleging a professional camera must have two card slots. It is not the camera that makes "it" professional. It is the person using it. Any one regularly paid for output is a professional. You can roll your eyes for all I care, you don't get to define what's professional just because you assume wedding photography is the peak of paid work. Duh. I own a 5DMIV, and have used it extensively. It has two card slots. It is not a more professional camera than any of my cameras will just a single card slot.

No one is forcing you to buy any machine that does not meet your spec. On the same vein, stop making outrageous claims however that such spec is what makes it pro.

Thanks for re-posting my online album. I am not sure that is allowed by the moderators, however.

As to a second photographer, AGAIN - if you cannot afford one where you are, do not assume it is not a good practice or that it is merely for the purpose of having a second photographer and nothing to do with having a robust back up strategy. Just stop this assumption that where you are and how you shoot is THE standard.

I would like to see your website for your professional work.

This is my throwaway account. I don't care about impressing photographers and have a profesional career to protect.

Just look at his landscape and see if it's up to standard to those compared to fstoppers.com

Check out Alex Noriega, Michael Shaeblum, Elia Locardi for the type of works I do. That's only for fun when I travel on vacation. They all have paid tutorials.

I am sorry to him if I was mean spirited. It just rubbed me the wrong way for him to bragged about not using dual card slot.

That's why you come from a place where the biggest joke leads the country.

Are you talking about bringing Politics to this discussion? LOL Do you feel better now?

I didn't vote for him.

Anyway, all the best. Whatever works for you