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Mikehit wrote:
Negligent? No. Its all about assessing risk and no two professionals assess risk the same way.For a professional, do you put cashflow at risk by buying a more expensive body simply for 2 card slots?
Negligence would be hard for me to apply to this situation because it implies some level of deliberateness. I suppose that could be the case but I would think that to be really rare.
Regarding the cash flow argument of buying a more or less expensive body that either does or does not feature two card slots. Well in 2017 there are all kinds of dual card slot bodies in just about any price range. Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sony and Olympus all make them now and you have either your choice of FF or cropped bodies. As an example, Nikon offers the D600, D610, D750, D800, D810, D3, D3s, D4, D4s, D5, D7100, D7200 to name just a few. So I don't think that is really an argument any more, maybe when the very first two card bodies came out, ... maybe. But a pretty weak argument either way when you are talking about protecting the interests of your client.
Mikehit wrote:
When turning professional do you buy into a new and unfamiliar system (or one whose ergonomics you are uncomfortable with) simply to have 2 card slots at the same price point? I would say both of those are a greater risk and more likely to lead to missed shots.
Missing a few shots on the day of the wedding due to unfamiliar ergonomics is much different than loosing everything you have on a card that covers several hours or the entire day of the wedding.
Additionally, if you are going out to shoot a wedding with new gear that you are not familiar with or comfortable with then I would say that you are unprofessional and unfair to your clients before we even get to the topic of single or dual cards.
If necessary, yes. Buy the equipment to be and run a business professionally. If you can't afford it then wait to either you can afford it or get a loan. I think it is a very unprofessional thing to shoot a wedding and charge clients for our services when we do not have the reasonably approbate gear to protect their interests. I.E. - multiple dual card bodies, multiple lenses, multiple flashes, business insurance etc.
Mikehit wrote:
As a professional you should have the best possible chance of getting the highest quality raw data to give you more options to crop/allow for errors etc. So why do not all professionals shoot medium format? Because they assess the risks.
Sorry but creative cropping due to having a larger size file is not the same argument as a single or dual card body that protects the client's interests. What we are talking about here is doing the reasonable thing to protect the interests of our clients. Today it does not cost any more to have a dual card body than it does a single card body but it offers your clients protection, or insurance as someone else called it.
Mikehit wrote:
It is patronising and ignorant to make a sweeping statement like 'negligent' or 'unprofessional'
As I mentioned above I would be hard pressed to call it negligence but I have no problem calling it unprofessional in this day and age and I will stand by that.
I'll ask again, what possible professional reason can you come up with for not having a dual card body?
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