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John Patrick
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p.2 #1 · What is your back up system?

BlueReptile wrote:
In addition to what's been said, I also shoot to both CF slots for T&I and important assignments. Usually 4 or 8GB in slot 1 and 32GB in slot 2.

Yep, two slots for T&I. It's a no-brainer to me, given the amount of money involved. Two slots for all income-critical events like T&I and wedd..., er, other events.

John

May 19, 2011 at 04:44 AM

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p.2 #2 · What is your back up system?

What if your iPhone doesn't have any CF slots? I only ask this because it's looking like my iPhone may be my backup this weekend....

** Edit ** D700 and 1D3 are out for delivery today!! My 1DIII was shipped 3 days before my D700 both with overnight shipping yet they are arriving the same time back to me. The sad part is I'm a gold CPS member and I'm NOT a NPS member yet.

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May 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM

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p.2 #3 · What is your back up system?

Note to self....Don't buy used camera gear or iPhones from Luke.

May 19, 2011 at 01:25 PM

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p.2 #4 · What is your back up system?

BlueReptile wrote:
In addition to what's been said, I also shoot to both CF slots for T&I and important assignments. Usually 4 or 8GB in slot 1 and 32GB in slot 2.

I will do that with the canons CF card as main and back-up to SD cards

May 19, 2011 at 06:26 PM

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p.2 #5 · What is your back up system?

Dang. It must be contagious. One of my D-700's is overexposing by 2 stops and the shop I use had to send it off for further examination. I have a funny feeling something went wrong with the aperture actuating doo-hickey when I hooked it up to a used TC. Now I have to rent a body for a back up over Memorial Day.

Crap...

Marty

May 20, 2011 at 12:25 AM

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p.2 #6 · What is your back up system?

a few 40D's for all my t & i but a carry a couple of M3's as bu. my go to lenses have always been 17-50 tammys or 28-75. This year I have had vb's go up in smoke, pb new gen radio senders die (not a dead batt), one 40d crap out, and a kid hit a 17-50 with his bat on purpose right in the front element with mom watching (I will not go into details here since I ate it with a higher deduc although her home owners insurance should have repaid me.

I shot 36 tball teams today (bushed)and thought at least 10 times when will one of my ab'800s take a direct shot from a ball or bat. Kids at this level practice throwing (if you want to call it that) all around my equipment. Parents just watch and never hardly ever say a word.

I do not leave home without a bu to a bu.

May 22, 2011 at 02:29 AM

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p.2 #7 · What is your back up system?

luketrot wrote:
Regarding Camera's: This is fresh for me.... I have 5 body's and had 4 fail in the past two weeks. Just bad timing unfortunately. Thankfully I was around other Canon shooters (Thanks Jeff!) who let me borrow a camera when I lost my 1DIV and IDIII. (432,000 actuation's and the camera just dies?) The following week my D3s CF door jammed up during a dance competition and my D700 backup died a few hours later. A knife was needed to remove the CF door of the D3s. I actually haven't sent the camera in as it still works despite the gimpy CF door. I also have a feeling they will insist on charging me for a new shutter as that camera is now at 426,000 actuation's as well.

Regarding lenses: Primarly we shoot 70-200 so I keep a 200/2 with me on the Nikon side and a 135/2 and 200/2 on the Canon side. I've had about 4-5 failures of my 70-200's in the past. Either focusing issues or internal screws coming lose to the point the lens became unusable. If I'm shooting portraits I make sure to have a 24mm and 50mm in my bag.

Regarding portraits: We have backup strobes but not always backup PW. If a PW fails then we just unplug it, as long as one strobe is working it will fire off the rest. You can also fire the strobes with a hot shoe flash.

Regarding Data: We have two levels of backup onsite. The first backup is done during the initial import. The second backup is done on the server using a Robocopy script to a portable sata drive. The server also has mirrored HD's.

Bottom line, make sure you have backups and don't buy any used camera gear from me on the buy/sell board.

Damn!

May 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM

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