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ShotByTom wrote:
In 17 years of shooting digital, I have never had a memory card fail while shooting and have never known anyone who has. In fact, I have only had one memory card become un-readable. I know, you'll say it happens all the time...but, in reality, it doesn't. We have 285 cameras in operation with our city agencies and have thousands of SD and CF cards in use, and we have millions of images stored. I don't know of any memory cards that simply stopped working while shooting. We've had some that were damaged, but not fail.
However, for weddings, If a memory card does fail, I would know after a few shots simply by checking images on the camera, which I do regularly. If it fails, I would simply use the other 6D that is hanging on my neck.
Not everyone makes $10,000 for shooting a wedding, many of us use less expensive equipment to manage costs and profits.
It is my opinion that I prefer the image quality and ISO performance of the 6D over the 5D II (current cameras at the time I moved to 6Ds.). So I have a plan in place to help minimize loss if lightning does strike.
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Do you not wear a seat belt because it's unlikely you'll get into a car accident? I'm not trying to be snarky, but any number of similar analogies would apply. If that card fails with hundreds of images on it, yeah you'll know pretty quick, but you might have lost hundreds of images, maybe even the bride & groom kissing or some other absolutely critical moment. You only need to lose a few shots to completely ruin the job. Just not worth the risk. If someone is shooting weddings for a living, the cost between a 6D and 5DM4 or similar is nothing, and probably even a tax write off. Anyways, thinking that something isn't going to happen because it hasn't happened to you yet is a very risky approach - that is what everyone who anything bad happens to thinks up until it does.
When I get asked by friends and colleagues for wedding shooter recommendations, one of the things I tell them to ask about is what their back up solutions and redundancies are. If their strategy is to just not worry about it because it hasn't been a problem for them yet, I would never use that particular photographer. It's one of the easiest things to do, so IMHO there is no good excuse for choosing not to protect the shots from a once in a lifetime event that you're being paid to cover.
I had a card fail on me and I lost about half of my photos form a Whale Shark diving tour. After a 4 hour boat ride I got extremely sick on, and the very small season in which something like that an even be done in a couple remote parts of the world, I will almost certainly never do it again. Just one example of where I wish I had a camera with backup slots for an important event - if I was getting paid for that day I might have been sued.
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