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

Started Feb 3, 2019 | Polls thread
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Astrophotographer 10 Forum Pro • Posts: 13,911
Re: If you are a pro, do you use two card slots for backup?

Oh dear, this is a touchy subject!

A bit like reading a thread on the Fuji film about X cameras worms in landscape effect!

I think its safe to say many are divided on this issue. Some would not consider a camera for paid work without a back up and those who feel safe without it.

I think its also safe to say Canon would have been smarter to include dual cards of the EOS R than leave it off. Same with Nikon where there is a similar storm of disagreement.

I am not a pro but I did have a card corrupt on me once. It was not my card either and I was borrowing it from my daughter in law. She had some photos on it she wanted to save.

As I put the CF card in a reader I could see on the computer the directory name wrote itself in a weird way and you could no longer get photos off the card.

I took it to a data retrieval specialist and $120 later he managed to get I think it was either all or the vast majority of the photos back.

That was in the handling of the card not in the camera at the time and it was using an external card reader.

Greg.

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