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Exactly my thought as well. Two cards, sometimes with two different formats, would make my life so much easier, not to speak about safer. Nikon knows what they're doing by reserving a feature like that for the top models.My main application for these type bodies is shooting high resolution images to two CF cards at once. One single failure of a CF card anywhere in the image chain could cost me the equivlant of a pile of D3Xs.
Seems from this report that the perfect 2 camera system would be a D3X for high resolution work up to ISO 640/800, and a D700 for low light candid work from ISO 500 and up.
When you look at the scores for dynamic range, the D3X gets a 13.7 while the S5 Pro gets a 13.5. Yet, when you look at the actual graphs, the EV range for the S5 Pro is 13.7 EV to 7.09 EV while the EV range for the D3X is 12.84 to 7.43.