Dave_Anderson
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Ideally, yes. If you're not writing to both at the same time it's only going to slow you down. That's what I was trying to say in my earlier comment.Wouldn't the dual card camera have a split channel?
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Ideally, yes. If you're not writing to both at the same time it's only going to slow you down. That's what I was trying to say in my earlier comment.Wouldn't the dual card camera have a split channel?
Yeah, a very funny and clownish comment ... unless you actually lost a wedding at the film lab ... or worse yet, a dead CF card. Then it's not even slightly funny ... especially not funny to the Bride.During film days, I used to have a custom made camera that shot on 2 films simultaneously. That way I used to give the lab the first set of films, and if he screwed the processing, I would give him the second set. But sometimes, the lab screwed both sets, so I had to make a camera that shoots to 3 films simultaneously.
I heard Canon is working on the 1Ds4 to shoot to 4 cards, just in case.
Your comments are starting to be more appropriate at DPR. :thumbdown:Yeah, a very funny and clownish comment ... unless you actually lost a wedding at the film lab ... or worse yet, a dead CF card. Then it's not even slightly funny ... especially not funny to the Bride.
Leaving aside film, have you ever lost images that were not recoverable?......unless you actually lost a wedding at the film lab ... or worse yet, a dead CF card. Then it's not even slightly funny ... especially not funny to the Bride.
Yes. I have lost images to a faulty card more than once. One was a total loss of a 2 gig of unknown reason, the other due to a corrupt file and the card was partially recoverable. One of my shooting associates lost an entire 8 gig card of images for reasons we could not figure out. Lexar couldn't recover it either, and had no answers as to why the failure happened. It was all the images of the actual ceremony and was not repeatable.Leaving aside film, have you ever lost images that were not recoverable?.
Just wondering if it's fear or practical experience, if so was it hardware failure or user error?.
What did you expect sir? In an effort to be publicly clever, you made inappropriately snide, sarcastic and disingenuous remarks obviously ridiculing what is clearly a serious issue for some of us ... including the original poster of this thread. :thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:Your comments are starting to be more appropriate at DPR. :thumbdown:
And I apologize for snapping at you ... I'm in a particularly focused mood on this subject since my second shooter lost some 5D images to a faulty reader for a wedding we shot Sunday. We recovered most of them, but the reader is history.Wow, I didn't even imagine that my post will be considered as clownish, snide, sarcastic and disingenuous.
I apologize for my totally tasteless and offensive post.
Next time I will think twice before trying to be funny
I'd second that - changed to Kingston 266X 8GB and no further problems.FWIW, A900 shooters may want to stay away from the 133x (and slow) Transcend 16GB card. I used it with no issue on the A700, but every once in a while it locks up on the A900. I've heard of a couple of others have the same issue.
Yeah, not all MS cards are created equal in terms of speed:When in Iceland last week I lost a full MS card. Not clear if it was user error or camera error but bought the software to recover the 213 images and did get them back.
Using CF and filled it. Was in a rush so switched to MS. Ran out of space on the MS. Changed CF and reformatted the new card. When I got back my two CF cards were good but the MS didn't have images. I can't be sure that the camera didn't do the format on the MS but it was really pretty strange. Glad I was able to recover everything. Glad I'm not a wedding shooter but life would be better for you guys if both cards were mirroring the images.
Just an FYI a fast CF card is much faster than the fastest MS card. I never fill the buffer with CF and with MS I have to wait after 5 quick shots.
Hi thereI take my hat off to you wedding photographers, it's a tough call.