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BoomerM3 wrote:
I want to find out how everyone is doing 'in the field' backups. With the Fuji X-T2, there are new options available. At the same time, many of the old options are gone.
I am planning a trip overseas (Japan) for 14 days. The itinerary calls for some street photography; landscape images; and birds in flight. Based on history, I expect to come home with 2000-3000 images. In the past, I have travelled with a dedicated backup device (Hyperdrive HD80) or a laptop. I don't want to carry a laptop this trip. The Hyperdrive is obsolete.
There are very few portable, dedicated backup devices on the market today. Some are the Hyperdrive Colorspace, Flash Porter (which never made it out of Kickstarter), and a couple of very old devices.
Now Fuji offers a camera with backup capability in the 2-slot (X-T2) camera. My questions:
Have you used the second slot as a backup device? What was your experience?
Is there a negative side to using the 2nd slot - speed, battery drain, other?
Is there a better way (not in the camera) to do backups?
Comments appreciated.
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The simplest thing to do in my opinion, is to just take a bunch of smallish SD cards, like 16 gigs. Use the number one card to write RAWs to and jpegs to the number two card.
When the number one card fills up, switch out both cards. By using only 16g cards, you'll not have a ton of photos on them in case something does happen to the camera. Plus, they are cheap.
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