SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

My setup also.

zcarxrg Loc: Corpus Christi

[quote=baygolf]I was just wondering how people use their camera with dual card slots. Now I understand for paid jobs you would use one for backup (option #2), but for just shooting around, e.g., vacation, parties, general shooting, etc. What configuration do you use:

1. Auto switch (when one card gets full switches to next card)
2. Record to multiple cards
3. Only record to the selected card[/quote

I always use one card for raw ( CF card in my Canon cameras) and the other (SD) for Jpeg. The SD card with jpegs allows for a backup, a jpeg that can be viewed on in any computer with an SD slot and allows me to keep shots on the SD in camera for quite awhile in case I have a reason to show a shot from the recent past while "in the field".
I use a 128gb card for raw and usually a 64gb card for the jpeg images. If I had a limitation with my cards I would save raw only because my workflow never requires immediate image transfer. My birds and wildlife do not care when (or if) their images are seen.

juan_uy Loc: Uruguay

Looks like I am the only until now that will answer this:
I shoot RAW+JPEG to both slots.

Why?
- Cause I am a newbie
- Cause I don't need burst
- Cause memory is cheap enough and there is time to delete
- I haven't find a reason to do it differently

(Edit: corrected spelling mistake know-now)

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

I think we’re doing the exact same thing.
Except that not all of my shoots need to be publication ready. Only in shoots where I don’t control the content get a Jpeg copy so they can be immediately posted if necessary.
ALL of my fine art shoots(for my own portfolio) get a Raw copy.
No way in the world will I work from a stunted Jpeg, no matter how good the Jpeg is, when I can work from a raw. I can always convert if I was dying to work from a Jpeg!!!
By now we all know what works best for each of us and Jpegs SUCK!!! LoL
SS

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I did that for many years. Nothing wrong with doing it that way. It's a personal choice.
Mark

dickwilber Loc: Indiana (currently)

I shot for decades without a backup on film; then I went digital and shot without a backup (one card slot). During that period, I went from rank amateur to advanced amateur, to pro, shooting sports, social events and weddings. I always carried a second camera as a back-up, but made only one recording of an image at a time! Shooting digital, I shot primarily jpg's as I always had to turn the images over quickly, and use as little post processing as possible--- get it right in the camera! When, after having been retired for a couple of years, I bought a D800, I suddenly had two slots and the ability to record a backup image. I immediately set up to record one jpg and one raw, which has worked very well for me. My jpg's are properly exposed and composed and are all I need for the vast majority of the images I take. The raw images are there whenever I have less than an optimum image to work with, or need to create a larger than usual print, or do something more creative in post processing. This is the best of all possible worlds.

During the years while shooting many thousands, perhaps millions, of digital images recorded on CF cards, I only had two images I knew that I did I shoot (out of several hundred shot that event) not show up when I down-loaded the card. I never figured out what happened so I retired that card and the problem never recurred. I find that there is no reason to record duplicates on a second card to protect against card failure! (I use Sandisk cards exclusively and swear by them.)

drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

I use the second slot just for that reason and because I have had cards fail when taking from camera to computer. Which is why I have not upgraded from the Nikon D7200 to the D7500. They left out a slot and gave you a tilt view screen. Was not the bonus I was looking for in an upgrade model. Sorry it cost you so much to get the drive data. The rule ever since computers came out is always have a second copy. It's been that way all the way back to the 8086 computer and even earlier when data was capture on tape machines.