Two Card Slots (Page 2): :sm24: 2nd card/slot is no different than backup camera, flash.

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Haydon wrote:

Media redundancy is a requirement for many event & wedding photographers. Removing features like this can ruin your reputation if you can't deliver images for paid venues.

2nd card/slot is no different than backup camera, flash.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

Haydon wrote:

Media redundancy is a requirement for many event & wedding photographers. Removing features like this can ruin your reputation if you can't deliver images for paid venues.

Lordy. What was done when we shot film? It seems many either never experienced or forgot about those days. Thank the lord I no longer shoot weddings.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Haydon wrote:

Media redundancy is a requirement for many event & wedding photographers. Removing features like this can ruin your reputation if you can't deliver images for paid venues.

"Back in the day" An F3 was the weapon of choice with an FE back up. It seems to me a back up camera is still a wiser choice for shoots like weddings, than 2 card slots.

Haydon

cjc2 wrote:

Lordy. What was done when we shot film? It seems many either never experienced or forgot about those days. Thank the lord I no longer shoot weddings.

And I suppose you still drive a Model T and you only shoot 36 frames on your media card. :)

Bill_de Loc: US

cjc2 wrote:

Lordy. What was done when we shot film? It seems many either never experienced or forgot about those days. Thank the lord I no longer shoot weddings.

During the film days most everybody I knew carried at least two bodies. Sometimes it was three bodies as you needed/wanted one for color, one for B&W, and a backup. You had a pretty good idea after every 36 shots if things were going OK.

Today, Canon and Nikon remember those days and by using one card slot they hope everyone will go back to at least 2 bodies.
It wasn't an oversight.

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Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Bill_de wrote:

During the film days most everybody I knew carried... (show quote)

Now that's a stretch!

The dual card slot grumble is akin to the no built in flash grumbles. Up until recently cameras had neither built in flash or dual card slots. How did pro photogs ever get their jobs done before modern "sales hooks"?

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Much ado about not much!

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Fotomacher wrote:

I was just thinking that one of the big reasons that professional photographers never used any of the F series film cameras and stayed away from the D1 and D2 digital bodies was they had only one roll of film or one memory card slot.
My F5 is almost impossible to use now since it doesn’t even have a way to check the image right after I press the shutter!!

I shot for 50 years with one slot, never bothered me in the slightest.
If I had to know, I used Polaroid.
Today I chimp!
SS

Bill_de Loc: US

Rich1939 wrote:

Now that's a stretch!

The dual card slot grumble is akin to the no built in flash grumbles. Up until recently cameras had neither built in flash or dual card slots. How did pro photogs ever get their jobs done before modern "sales hooks"?

Did you notice my ending? "

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Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Bill_de wrote:

Did you notice my ending? "

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I did but it gave me an opportunity to 'pontificate'

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

cjc2 wrote:

Lordy. What was done when we shot film? It seems many either never experienced or forgot about those days. Thank the lord I no longer shoot weddings.

I can’t speak for others, but when I shot weddings on film, I shot the important group shots with both a medium format (for IQ) and 35mm (for backup). Saved me once when I forgot to rotate the back of my RB67 after taking the landscape-oriented large group shots and took the tops off everyone’s heads in the following shots (which should have been in “portrait “ orientation) - somehow, in the heat of the moment, I missed the red boundary lines in the view finder. Again, I’m sure true professionals never make a mistake like this, but I knew I was fallible and took steps to mitigate potential mistakes.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

TriX wrote:

I can’t speak for others, but when I shot weddings... (show quote)

One of those times when chimping would be advantageous!

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

MT Shooter wrote:

One of those times when chimping would be advantageous!

Yes indeed! One of those things that weren’t an option with film at the time... One of the advantages of the “digital world”.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Fotomacher wrote:

I was just thinking that one of the big reasons that professional photographers never used any of the F series film cameras and stayed away from the D1 and D2 digital bodies was they had only one roll of film or one memory card slot.
My F5 is almost impossible to use now since it doesn’t even have a way to check the image right after I press the shutter!!

That's not a reason to not use that camera, I almost never check an image after I take a shot!

Archiefamous Loc: Manhattan

Redundancy is carrying two cameras. Like seasoned photojournalists