I'm not a professional, I take extremely good care of my gear and shoot at least ten thousand photos per year. I only buy my memory cards from trusted places and I have never physically broken a memory card... so I must be the most unlucky photographer in the world because in the last five years I have had both a Lexar and a Sandisk 64g go bad... It all boils down to each individual's tolerance to risk... if you're into playing Russian roulette with your work that's your business... 🤣

@Tren_is_okay

2 жыл бұрын

I had one fail on me a Lexar and iv seen my friend lose wedding video footage with his sandisk… that’s why I’m here trying to figure out if I should rethink my camera

@OCAQelvin

Жыл бұрын

hello. Did both cards fail at the same time?

@PaulBawby

Жыл бұрын

@OCAQ No. I use my cards in same brand pairs. If one card fails, the pair is retired.

“I’ve never been in a car crash so I’m never wearing my seatbelt again.” That’s what I heard. Do you backup your data in multiple places when you return from a shoot or do you just leave that in one place? SD card failures happen. There are so many factors; weather, data corruption, card wasn’t seated properly. This is pretty bad advice. If your SD card failed would you tell your client “sorry, I don’t believe in needing two slots so all of your footage or images that can never be replicated are gone.” I’m happy to be a Sony A7 iii shooter that can record video/images to two slots at a time. I’ve had an expensive SD card fail on me before but I was saved by other one.

@miguelhuerta9873

3 жыл бұрын

I have a sony a7iii and i want to know what memory combo is good, two 64gb or two 128gb or 1 64gb and 1 128gb sd card

@chiefvon3068

2 жыл бұрын

I'm about to get a camera and I'm going for the nikon d610 against the canon 6d(which I actually prefer) cos I'm scared of things like this happening. So I guess I'm going to become a Nikon shooter cos of dual memory slots.

It has happened to me, and trust me, it sucks when it happens. (and no, it wasn't a cheap brand SD card either)

@ejstanley

5 жыл бұрын

How many times you've used that same card, what kind of photoshoot you did that day, please enlighten us if you remember.

@victorvilln

5 жыл бұрын

It was a shoot in Chicago, it was cold.... nothing too bad at all. I wasn't even wearing a jacket just to show you how mild the weather was. It was a brand new 95mb/s 128gb Sandisk extreme sd card. At fist I thought my camera died on me because its was acting all kinds of crazy. But I swapped SD cards and the cam worked fine. This happened on a GX85.

@loganz

5 жыл бұрын

Do you format your card in camera often? I heard that prevents a lot of problems.

@ejstanley

5 жыл бұрын

humm! for some reason... I always do that too.

@ejstanley

5 жыл бұрын

humm! brand new! that's odd! if you did use it for the first time, then that is the company fault. But what I'm scared the most is when in a middle of photoshoot, it failed! So what I could suggest before going to a photoshoot, test that card first and format it too.

If you're a food photographer... Landscape... Etc then that could probably Be true.. but if you're wedding, sports or any kind of event that cannot be replicated, then no.. you do need a dual slot

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

I think this is a really important point. thank you.

@katumus

4 жыл бұрын

So you have your camera on the sidelines of the important sports event, you are covering it and then you got run over by athletes by accident and destroy your camera and both of your cards. How did it help you? So you are in the wedding shoot and you need to take the special moment shot, you drop your camera to ocean.... Yeah, that happens. If you are REALLY COVERING SOMETHING SPECIAL, then YOU ARE NOT ALONE! You do NOT USE DUAL CARDS, YOU USE MULTIPLE PHOTOGRAPHERS! And if you have something critical captured, your first task is to get those files AWAY FROM YOU! Meaning you immediately backup the photos to external hard drive and you move those cards and the drive to two separate locations, away from you! YOU WILL NEVER USE TWO CARD SLOTS FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT! Only idiots does so!

In 13 years of taking photos it never happened to me that an SD card failed. Maybe it also depends on how you treat your cards. If you expose them to heat or humidity there might be a higher chance of failure. I always take good care of my cards and always buy high quality. I don’t buy Lexar or Kingston. Never bought anything else than SanDisk.

@ainjuhl4509

10 ай бұрын

Sony and angelbird are best

With all due respect guys he's not forcing anyone to use only 1 card. He only shared his point of view.

Two memory card slots make sense, although I have never had a card fail in many years of photography.

Here's my card failure story from about a month ago: I recently was asked to shoot a birthday party for my friend's family, it was his wife's 46th and his daughter's 16th. Super casual, very 'last-second no big deal' kind of vibe, and he wanted to pay me and feed me steak and cake to shoot and edit both photos and a short video for a Sweet 16 thing so he could focus on being present and not worrying about photo/video himself. Cool. I was rockin' a 1DX mk2 that I'd borrowed from a friend (because why shoot on a GH5 when you have that, am i right? Don't answer that, KZread comment section..) but only had a single C-Fast 2 card to write to; very expensive card tho, 256 gb, very nice camera shouldn't be a problem. Did the shoot, no problem. Got home, went to import photos to LR on my macbook (less than a year old, mind you). I do this Import Dance all the time every day, and was shooting redundant cards for 2 years and never needed to use the backup, so this shouldn't be a problem. Started import, and about halfway through my laptop had an existential crisis for no apparent reason and crashed even though it was plugged in. I powered down the computer, put the card back in the camera, Camera and card both work fine - sweet! Went to Playback, and everything from the day was gone. 'Strange. Camera's probably just acting weird, I'm sure when I put the card back in the computer everything will pop up again in LR, and the import will continue from that halfway point where it died.' Power computer back on, open LR.. LR says not a single photo or video was imported at any point that day. 'That's ok, I'm sure the files are somewhere on my harddrive because they popped up once, and I'm sure once I put the card back in everything will pop up and I'll be able to re-import'. Put card back in.. latest content on card was from 2 days prior. Eject card, put back in Camera; same result. Back to computer, same result. 'Oh crap.' Take card reader and card to other computer, plug in, open LR, start Import.. nothing from that day. Back to Macbook, nothing. Back to Camera, nothing. Search harddrive where all my imports go, nothing. 'Oh crap.' The card worked fine, the camera worked fine, the card reader worked fine, the laptop (USUALLY) works fine; this was not a low-budget setup, and there's not much room for User Error in selecting the images you want to import and clicking 'Import'.. BUT strange things happen, and this time it resulted in me losing everything that had been shot during an event that couldn't be re-created, with family that apparently had come in from out of town and cakes that were ordered special for the occasion. My friend wasn't happy. I wasn't happy. With the most expensive kit I've ever shot on, and one of the nicest computers I've ever owned, everything was gone and I found myself wishing for the first time that I'd been writing to 2 cards. Solid video man, though personally, I've convinced myself through my own self-imposed guilt associated to this one force majeure experience that 2 cards is important to me. I can acknowledge that the likelihood of actually needing the redundancy is slim to none, but in the event that something does happen, I wouldn't want to walk that line of potentially losing all of somebody's memories. But then that get's into the context of what you're shooting and this comments long already, so I'm out! Peace and love and internet vibes and whatnot

@OCAQelvin

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. That hurts when you have no backup and card fails. I don't know why they fail. But, card producers should have done better job. I heard that sony tough sd cards are more reliable.

if we delete the pictures in the camera,will it coorupt the sd card . Please let me know

"You DON'T need DUAL MEMORY CARDS to be a PRO!" - until one goes wrong.

@cedricwebb5576

2 жыл бұрын

Say that again brother!!!!!!! Everything is fine until a card fails. Then the photographer would probably wish they had dual slots. I wouldn't wish that on no photographer but it would be a bummer to loose important images. I'm no pro however I see dual slots as insurance.

People are mad because it's just such a basic, simple cheap thing to do. Who makes a 2000 or 3000 dollar camera without a dual card slot? the 1100 dollar X-t2 has two. most if not all mid/high end aps-c/micro 4/3 cameras have two. Who is arguing that having only one is better? What good improvement would that bring to people? Having one slot is ONLY a bad thing, or in your case, does not make a difference. I think canikon did this to give people a reason to stay with their DSLR systems, at least for a few more years until their production shifts, and their old stock is being sold. I get it, they don't want to make a killer camera with killer lenses when that would cannibalize their existing sales. Lot's of people swear by having backups. I do too. I'm an amateur. I've had a card fail, not from physical damage, but from a corrupt chip. I don't want that to happen again.

@easterlingderek34

5 жыл бұрын

NO the 1100 X-T2 has two card slots the X-T1 has only one card slot. Saying that cause i own an X-T1.

@Bornmirri

5 жыл бұрын

sorry, typo. meant X-T2, own X-T2.

i'm really glad you've gotten a quite of a bit of growth. i started taking photography a bit more seriously in my sophomore year and you were really the best teacher for photoshop/lightroom. Thanks for the vids ed! (also never had a corrupt file)

Everyone has their own opinion and experiences... Pro or non-pro it does not matter... What matter is it's your own freaking money... Buy what you want/need and don't listen much to others else you be blaming others for not listening to your heart/head...

I was shooting a short with a single slot Canon DLSR. A short on a budget and with very tight schedule. 25 people total among crew and actors. After 2 hours of shooting a very expensive Sandisk memory card failed and I, (ME) had to tell 24 people that 2 hours worth of work was lost because I was a bum who didn't have a dual slot camera. Now, think how much you want you don't need dual card slots, just be very careful to tell me to my face if you meet me in person :P

@DavidRFIT

5 жыл бұрын

by the way this is your worst and most silly video ever and if your content wasn't as good as it is I would consider unsubscribing for this moronic video alone.

@ariannamengucci3405

5 жыл бұрын

I am pretty puzzled about the nature of this video. Downright stupid, it makes no one a favor. It's disinformation at best.

@diegoramonfuentes5584

5 жыл бұрын

RJ Bradbury Photography there are function that do backups as soon as you stop shooting, in some. He would've lost a take, maybe. Not 2 hours. I totally agree with David RF.

@manualmind6384

5 жыл бұрын

I had a sd failures two Times.

@Stories_4_Everyone

5 жыл бұрын

@@diegoramonfuentes5584 i know this comment is old but do you know any dslrs or mirrorless that do that for video?

hii after watching this video I had a thought why is companies like Nikon Canon Fuji sony etc. don't come up with DSLR or mirror less cameras with internal memory ,like 128 or 256 or more like smart phones today . UFS 2.0 provide. faster data rates .I would like you to make videos on it , is it possible or not

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

I really like this as I idea. a camera that shoots to a card an one stores a backup internally. people would probably complain about the internal not being able to backup multiple cards but it would definitely be an option.

@easterlingderek34

5 жыл бұрын

Cool idea only problem that they may have thought of before is internal memory like an NVME SSD can get very hot like 90c hot. I figure some still have issues with heat since no camera has adequate cooling like Computers do. Also if you had a card fail on the job in order to recover you'd have to put down the camera and let a computer pull the files off of the camera before you can continue. On the other hand if you have two cards and one fails you can just pull both cards out and just put fresh cards back in and keep shooting. And if there was more than enough space on the internal storage, usually temps are hotter on the higher capacity drives than those of the lower capacity ones.

Are you based in London if so can I do an apprenticeship with you I did study photography at A level and film at a uni foundation level

There are different types of "pro" A pro fashion photographer has much less need for them than a pro event photographer. A fashion photographer typically shoots tethered so they don't need dual card slots. As a single shooting wedding photographer I have to have backups for everything. I believe it to be irresponsible not to have backups for everything, including backups to every image I take. People can disagree with that if they like. I'm going to take the responsibility to provide my clients with images seriously. You can not say that it is not 100% possible a card can not corrupt. It's up to the "professional" to take that risk. I will definitely disagree that this is a chosen "trend" to say professional cameras don't need dual card slots, when the companies themselves are saying these are not the "professional" cameras and their dslr dual card slot counterparts are their "professional" cameras. When Nikon and Canon come out with their next gen cameras, they will have dual card slots and be more expensive.

@easterlingderek34

5 жыл бұрын

Why would they be more expensive if they had a second Card Slot, repairs of tech will tell you that a SD cage for something like a Nintendo 3DS would cost like $4 to $5 to buy for replacement.

@arthursese6068

5 жыл бұрын

@@easterlingderek34 That's what canon does. The 6d ii vs the 5d miv. One is single card slot (less professional), 5d miv dual card slots (more professional) and more expensive. Why do they do that? Because people buy both for those reasons. The 6d mii people feels as though that's what they deserve for the price, while the 5d miv people feel better about themselves because they spent more money and feel as though they are a higher grade professional. I guarantee the next canon mirrorless will have dual card slots and be over $1000 more. Canon does buisness this way because it works. Because people keep buying it. If you disagree with it, then don't buy it.

@chiefvon3068

2 жыл бұрын

At this point I don't think any camera should have one card slot. FFS I'm going to spend probably more than 1500 bucks for this and there's simply no excuse to just include another card slot.

Just for your peace of your mind using 2 will clear your mind in the project,

I never had a card fail but why wait till it happens ?

I had a card corrupt on me when I brought a new dslr. But because I was testing it in town before going home, I was able to go back to the store and get a new memory card. Its now been over a year and I'm still using the original replacement given to me with no problem at all.

What I want to know is does duel memory cards really protect against corruption? Don't the cards get written to at the same time? So would the same write that corrupts one card corrupt the other?

@dentReviews

3 күн бұрын

this. this is definitely possible. the issue would be if the card itself failed. which does happen. the odds of both failing together is significantly lower that just one. and the camera can write to one if the other fails. as such, i don't even think you "need" two slots in a literal sense. you could use one slot, change cards at specific segments and back things up actively. the point is that you shouldn't only have one card storing sensitive/irreplaceable images and "hope" nothing goes wrong. Could your car explode on the way home after a wedding and you lose everything? sure. but i think most people would understand you couldn't control that. but dropped your camera or the sd card became corrupt? i'd feel bad, but i can't get new wedding photos after the wedding anymore..... :-/

@yaynative

2 күн бұрын

Ah that makes sense. Well that's enough for me to want dual memory cards for important shoots.

I had 2 memory cards fail on me. I use to think like him it won't happen to me but after the second time where I lost important photos I will never buy a camera with one card slot.

This is the same logic people use who don't take out kit cover 'because they have never dropped their camera'. If we knew an accident was going to happen it wouldn't be an accident. I am a filmmaker with around 10 years of experience including work for the BBC, Kellogs and Gemporia. I have had a memory card corrupt and I felt sick to my stomach. BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP.

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

That is correct. However pretty much every camera out there can’t tack up video recording anyway. So for video duel card slots won’t help you at all. Unless you are using a digital cinema but then you probably won’t be using as cards anyway.

If it show memory card is write to protected what I do in this situation

I've got 2 sd cards that got corrupted in camera... The xqd never so far....

I've had 2 go bad, neither were physically broken, luckily I WAS shooting on a dual card camera, used both and was able to use the backup and keep on rolling.

Yes I really need a backup card. Last year happend to me. I had a Canon 6D with 1 slot card that corrupts the all data inside and I cannot backup anything even leading to the specific company to fix this issue. After this I chance to MK III with 2 slots.

It's happened to me. Brand new SanDisk top of the line card failed on its first use. A 1000 air show pics lost. I'm not a pro,but I cant imagine an event or wedding photographer taking the risk.

Went 8 years without an SD card failure. I’ve had 3 fail in the past three years (all in a Canon 5D mi II or Canon 60D). In one case I only managed to recover 20% of my shots. It was not a good day.

Yes, it happend to me with Kingston 64gb SD...twice. Now I only use SanDisk extreme pros. They work like a charm.

That's so short sighted for a working pro. Better to have the backup & never need it, rather than be sued by your client for loss of images.

This is a put on right?

I had 3 cards fail on me in less than 5 years. I can't afford to lose my client work. Agree not all pro or non profit need two cards, but for those that redundancy is a most or you better ( most wedding photography) not having a back up can be painful if something happens. Is that never did, is if it those what would you tell your client. My 3 cents

I've only used one. My backup is transferring the images onto my computer afterwards and then a copy to an external drive and mediafire (cloud storage) later

I love having two memory card slots because of this reason. On card slot one I just take pictures, on slot two it's dedicated for video only. When I edit I already know which card to take out when I'm looking for a specific file. I never had a card fail on my short 3 years of shotting. However if I was a wedding photographer I would love that security of truly knowing they are backed up.

That’s like saying I have never been in an auto accident so I don’t need a seat belt or airbags in my car. It’s there for worse case outcomes and is only needed when it is, but to have when needed you need it all the time. Explain to that bride who doesn’t have pictures of her wedding that, well, it never happened before. A professional should shoot with backups to protect their clients. Oh, and wear your seatbelt.

Your argument assumes the second slot is only used for backup. I have a Lumix G9 and I use one slot for photographs and the second for video; it's great! Mike in Oz

Tony and Chelsea Northrup are probably cringing assuming they saw this video lol.

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

I bet they are. I live there content.

I think a larger concern is the huge storage capacity on today’s cards. You rely on one. You lose it or physically damage it and that’s a lot of files gone down! I still try to go for the for the “smaller” capacity cards. Seems like yesterday, that 4Gb was the norm!😱

i use a Nikon d3200 and a D750 and work on an iMac and PC and so far I've lost data from three SD cards. Switching between the OS formats is the culprit i think, rather than the camera side. But yes, I've lost images and cards have refused to work in the camera that work in the computers perfectly well

I’ve never had a card go corrupt on me. Like you, one broke on me, but didn’t go corrupt. I’ve also had to recover photos that I accidentally deleted. Recovered all of them no problem. I agree, it’s convenient to have 2 card slots, but not everyone needs the redundancy...

@mixxinmel

5 жыл бұрын

If your not getting paid for the job. And shooting for fun. Then 1 card slot is fine. But in this day and age 2 card slots is a must if shooting for MONEY PERIOD.

wait until they eliminate the card slot completely and go with an internal memory; that ought to really piss them all off.

I know I’m not the only enthusiast to use the first card for .jpgs to load on an iPad and the second card for raw files to load on a PC and use with Lightroom. Only 1 card slot, umm?

Would you shoot a wedding with one camera, no back up? I wouldn't! neither would i want to shoot a wedding with one card, no back up, but that said i wouldn't use the canon or nikon mirrorless cameras to shoot a wedding anyway, i think for a hobby camera they might ok but why not just get the Sony A7iii and problem solved all together!

I have had 2 SanDisk cards go corrupt on me. Lost some moments that were extremely important to me. I never shoot with just one card anymore.

The only time I ever lost a card in 13 years was when I took it out the camera and put it in / pulled it out of the computer. It didn't fail. I broke it. Managed to rip one of the connecting prongs off. That was about 8 years ago I am NOT a professional but very serious about photography. I just upload the photos directly from the camera to the computer. No problems since then.

Happened to me 3 times in the past 15 years. BUT, there were signs -- slower write speeds, and the "not formatted" error iirc -- I backed up and used them again because it was not an important shoot. It failed same day. 2nd was the same. 3rd stopped writing. I could still read so I backed up the files. I used branded cards. I'm just unlucky with memory. Even my hard drives fail a lot.

Hi Ed..... I had a bit of trouble once with a compact flash card.... ended up being my fault as i hadn't formatted a used card in camera. It had a Nikon directory still written on it and I popped it in my Canon 7d and started shooting. Got home and could not view the images. Eventually managed to find someone who restored the files. Never had a card just fail on me. The only reason i can see a card failing is moisture ingress or physical abuse. All the best....... regards

I'm not a pro user, but I did have an CF card fail during my holiday. It happened during a shoot. It was a 128GB so I while the card was only half full, it did cost me a few days of holiday photo's. A true bummer. So while in many cases, one card will be fine. Cards do fail and can fail. It's up to you whether you can live with the risk of that happening. In most cases, probably, but in some... Well until we can go back in time to re-live those moments, I'd say, better be save then sorry.

Never had a card fail. Lost files because a computer crashed, but never through card failure. Smashing intro!!

I've just had a card corrupt while importing into Lightroom - very scary. I'm now pulling out all stops to salvage wedding photos. I've never had this happen and it's my newest, best card. I have managed to extract some though wifi on the camera - so there is hope. But I'm obviously now looking into new cards and dual slots.

@jacob_stanley

5 жыл бұрын

Just to follow-up, i have now extracted the images on another computer. It looks like the card isnt corrupt but the laptop thought it was - a problem in importing on the laptop's end.

Back in the film days I would shoot with 4 cameras....dual card slots really make it nice for that extra security if needed.

Good for you. I'm not a pro and the last 5 years. I had 2 SD (sandisk extreme pro ) card and 4 micro samsung evo, sony,and a data. Hope why take a chance. If there's such tech with 2 card slots. Why not.

２cards slots are nice to have. Would love to separate my video and photo files on 2 separate cards on my Sony A7Sii

On a wedding day, I wouldn’t trust one card to hold everything. Especially user error. I’m super careful but what if I dropped it, I took it out and deleted it, card got lost, fell behind my desk without me seeing it, gear gets stolen on the way home from the wedding...I always have a cf card and an sd with everything on it and keep the cf card in my pocket, because I had my gear stolen once with the card case as well. Too many variables to go with just 1 if there is an option to have an immediate backup. “It’s never happened to me” is not really a good reason haha

I'm an amateur and never had a card fail on me in the last 10 years, but i had once the hard drive and it suck at that time. Now i have dual card on my sony but i don't use it for backup, i use it to have more space.

I’ve only had a sandisk card corrupt on me once, I don’t know why it happened, luckily the photos weren’t important & could be retaken 👍🏻

I am not a pro, but I had a card fail to read after shooting on vacation. All on that card lost. If I was shooting a wedding I would want backups.

did you ever experienced a traffic accident? if answer is no, then don't use the safety belt. your opinion is totally wrong.

@trailsofenzoenzo225

5 жыл бұрын

precisely

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

I have to dissagree. if there is a seatbelt then use it. but if cars were made safe enough not to were them and they weren't available then cars would still be completely usable. we just had to wait for the technology to get there.

@stephenpolwart2094

5 жыл бұрын

No one is going to die from memory card failure. I agree if you're a working pro then these probably won't be your main cameras. What percentage of Nikon and Canons sales are to working pros? I suspect most of their customers are amateurs. Are Nikon and Canon that stupid? lets wait and see!

@mlmediaservices

5 жыл бұрын

I think this there is to much dogma in this discussion. Really. Everybody has to come down a bit. Safety belts are a matter of live and death and a totally different risk assessment. Fellow photographer Stephan Wiesner said in one of his recent videos that he never suffered from broken cards but twice from stolen equipment. He's a travel and landscape photographer. So he's changing his cards on a regular basis to split the risk; dual card slots are of no advantage for him in this scenario.

@ocubex

5 жыл бұрын

@@clearlyed But thats the thing, cars are not safe and no card is currupt proof. Ask and company that makes they will all tell you it will eventually fail, its a matter of when... the thing is most of us replace them before they fail.

I haven't had a card fail. I've been using single card on the a7r2 for 2 years and haven't had any issues. I've been using sd cards that are about 4 years old.

Human errors are bound to happen. I had a couple of instances. Once one card got full during the shooting , then the second card took over, and the second instance was simply I forgot to place the primary card in the camera, went out, did the shooting, came back home to find out that actually I used only the secondary card without even noticing it. The dual slots got me covered.

I love the Sandisk extreme cards, they are not expensive and fast and the quality is really good

It’s the paranoia of the “well it could happen, so why take the chance”. I completely agree with you that dual card slot paranoia because of the possibility of losing photos is simply that: paranoia. Z6 user, never had a corrupt photo, been using the same two memory cards I bought with the camera brand new - over 450,000+ clicks ago - and it’s still working perfectly! I’ve even made the mistake of accidentally washing one of my memory cards in the laundry - and the XQD card still works perfectly! Do what makes you comfortable and I get the ‘I’m going to do this so at least that’s one less risk I’m not worried about’ mentality. How about stop cutting corners by buying cheap memory cards, and get higher quality cards for your high quality camera. This is also coming from someone that has been primary and second photographer at 20 weddings, and also do dance competition photography - with a single memory card slot!

I'm primarily a video shooter and some cameras that have dual slots won't backup video anyway (they'll only work sequentially with video). I have had a Lexar Professional (64GB) get corrupted by my Sony, and I've also had a Sandisk card for a very important wedding get corrupted during a data transfer to a computer's external drive. A data recovery company got the images off the Sandisk, and I used Stellar Phoenix to save what was on the Lexar. Although I've never lost data in any of these cases, dual slots would of been nice.

Bro... I could not have said it any better. And I wish that we lived in the same city so we could grab a beer.

You should backup your clients' data. Some of the high quality SD cards that I have had have died in cameras before but I usually have backups of everything. Dual slot cameras are great. They even make waterproof cards these days. Within the past 2 months 2 of my 4TB drives have also failed but I have backups of all the data. One drive had been running for 5 years and the other was running for about 6 years. On one of the drives lots of files were unreadable/uncopyable but I could easily just get the data from other places as the data was backed up. If you have important files back them up as soon as you can.

My D750 used to produce 3-4 corrupted RAW files for for every 1000 image, when I was shooting very long events and 3-4000 shots per day. It was quite scary, but luckily I always had way more than enough files to deliver. But it only happened to my D750 and only when I went above 1000 images. On a Kingston card, and NOT on a Sandisk Pro. I never had a problem on my Canon 6Dii, not my Sony A7ii, ever.

It's horses for courses. I shoot RAW to card slot 1 and jpeg to card slot 2. I load the images from the memory card from card slot 2 onto my iPad to see if everything is as it should be then delete them. Loading up jpegs instead of RAW saves loads of space so it's not just about cards failing.

Wrong, I had a Sandisk Extreme Pro 64gb corrupt, it is not just cheap cards. It might not have not often, once you have been burned once you want the safety of a backup. I have never had an SSD hard drive fail, but I still backup my drive. I had a PNY card (not used in my camera but digital picture frame) where something happened that caused a small bubble to form in the SD Card plastic from the heat of something burning out.

I had a card corrupt during a shoot and lost every image on the card. It corrupted in the middle of the shoot so I had to tell the model (fortunately it was a tfp shoot) that I lost half of the shoot. Worst feeling in the world and taught me the value of a redundant card slot. As the old adage goes, it is better to have and not need than to need and not have.

I had a high quality sandisk card physically split in half on me but it was before I went out to shoot. I was curious if there were images on it could I get them back so I super glued it together and it worked fine actually. So even if I did have images on it I could have gotten them off. I threw the card out still and sandisk sent me a free 128gb card even when the original was only 16gb. Personally I don’t care if I only have 1 slot. I feel like a card failing is the least likely thing that could happen. I think you are more likely to totally lose a card or drop your camera in the ocean or something.

I agree. Neither I have a single memory card fail over me.Nor I have lost files from a shoot. Backing up quickly and in multiple locations or shooting tethered is what I do. That said, I am not even owner of a high end camera. A modest Canon EOS 60D(for past seven years) which relies on SD cards. Having dual card slots is great but not an absolute must for me.

I also think we never need two balls in our pants. Right? We never need two, one will work.

Sandisk pro never fails but I'm always using two memories because you never know, and what about if u' need to keep shooting an event, 1 memory card it's not for me

I m used currently CF Card, I don't like SD card & note experience of XQD card.

During my last travel in south Asia my camera has been stolen while I was not in the hostel room at night ( and it was a room with 2 bed, me and my friend ) I was not sad because of the lost of my camera ( it was a Canon 100D ) but because of all the pictures from a 5 weeks travel that I could never remplace, so trust me, for my next camera I'll have 2 slot on it ( and ofc the wireless connection to copy the picture on my phone ) and I will ALWAYS take the sd back-up on me if I have to leave my camera in a hotel room or somewhere else where I think it's not fully safe

My favorite is when tony Northrops memory card failed at the Canon release. But yeah, it's not a big deal.

I shoot with a D500 and love, love, LOVE the XQD card. It is strong and doesn't fail. That said, whenever I do not have a "need for speed", and do not mind the slow down, I do shoot in back-up mode to the secondary SD card. It isn't so much that I fear failure by the XQD card as I know myself and like having back-ups on a separate physical disc in case I am tired or distracted one night and accidentally mess up the files on the XQD somehow. Card failure = not so much of a chance. User failure = sooner or later for me.

I’ve always used only one SD card in the faster (Sony A7rIII) slot. The camera is faster this way. I do studio and location but mostly personal projects that can be rather complex. In studio I tether so it’s not an issue. So.... last week I had a 64GB Lexar 2000x fail. I pressed preview to chimp while the card was still writing and everything locked up then the card would no longer work in the camera at all. Oddly, the card worked fine in my computer except the one photo that was “corrupted”. I retired the card. I have no problems taking the risk of one card unless the photos can’t be retaken. So two cards for events and weddings or if the shoot that can’t be redone. Give me to fast card slots and I’ll use 2 cards all the time.

I had a card fail on me. I bought a 32gb what I thought was a scandisk, anyway I could not delete the images from the card, I could not format the card useing the camera or a card reader in a PC. It looks like a genuine card when when I looked it actually has no name or brand on it at al just the info ect. The card is no good as the images on it won't come off no matter what.. Cheap crap copy I've learned a lesson, and no more 32 cards I would rather have smaller ones.. But this is the only card that has ever failed on me.. This was in a nikon d300s with two card slots.

I'm a professional, and would prefer FOUR card slots (separate cards for stills & video, plus internal back-up of both).

I suspect the unstated reason Nikon and Canon have moved away from dual cards is camera performance. It uses up computing and memory to copy the files onto a second card, while photogs are concerned with how many fps they can shoot. Like you I also have not heard of a card becoming corrupted during appropriate use.

Never had a card fail yet, shooting digital since 2005 with one card slot, only recently purchased a new body in 2017 with two and I do not always utilize them. Its personal preference and opinion. I don't think any more or any less for someone not having two slots. When digital started, they only had one card slot and it did not seem to matter back then. We abandoned our 36 exposure film and picked up a single slot digital.

@jonathanthomas5928

5 жыл бұрын

I understand what you are saying, I've been shooting Sony from the start. I had a big budget wedding, but after finishing the engagement portraits my sandisc failed, lost all images. After informing the client they backed out of the contract. Never again. Picked up a D850 an 24-70 for super important things. Since A7R3 the 850 is again sold.

First, I love watching your lightroom tutorials. Just needed to thank you for that. Now, I like you had a card break. Taped it and took the files to my harddrive. Easy. Buuuuuuuut, when you go pro like any other business and turn up you daily use, repitition, different staff handling, in and out of vehicles, heating and cooling, your "failure day" is coming my friend. I have a prediction for you to ponder.You will have a situation, or one of you staff will, where thru time constraints or equip age/stress a failure will occur that cannot be reshot. Not unlike shooting a wedding, you will be dealing with an "angry bride". As you have requested to hear of all our card failures via our comments, I hope you can make a video telling us your feelings on single/dual card usage at that time. Thanks, B.McP. P.s. hope I havent cursed you.......

I mostly agree with you. But I have lost client video due to card corruption. It was early on my pro career (shooting on a canon 60d, was a sandisk card) and felt awful and wasn't sure what to do about it. Kept me up for a few nights and when I finally told the client, they just said... "eh we got a lot of other good stuff on that shoot, so we'll be alright!". (also this was because I had to use a bunch of small SD cards instead of 1 big one for price reasons). Anyway, yeah it's a risk but hopefully, one that a pro will know how to properly mitigate! I think many pros shoot tethered... and many pros shoot with multiple cameras at a time... so each photographer needs to decide their own risk tolerance. Right now I lead a video team that shoots hundreds of videos a year... and mostly on SD cards in cameras with dual card slots. But we generally don't bother with shooting onto two cards because we havent' had issues.

What if it's the second time he is shooting this video because that broken card is the one that failed

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha. I love this comment.

@TheLegalizeBro

5 жыл бұрын

Hey! Go check Tony & Chelsea Northrup new video, it does happen man :\ even though i disagree with your video this time, i love your stuff! keep it up

nice intro ed.

I know my opinion would not mether much but I started 4 years ago with 6d with just one card and still am going strong. one time I lost 2 or 3 files when numbers went from 99999 to 00000. I still use my 6d but hope to have one day a camera with 2 slots, inaf sd cards to write double the trouble and to have more hard drives just for backups. Love the videos with different opinions - this was is a risky one, but at​ least it's​ not someones else​ - tx

I have lost data from one COmpact Flash Lexar professional card. only once. that card is very well built and Lexar provides restoration tool so I was able to restore most of the photos. so to summarize it i lost about 5 photos maybe in total. and I am shooting Nikon D3s which has dual slot but I do not setup to clone the data to the second one. waste of time I think. So I also think that the whole world is going crazy for no real reason.

I don’t get why cameras don’t have internal flash memory + one SD card slot. Memory are so cheap right now, there is no reason to not have built in memory and it would save a lot of space. SD card would be used for fast transfer but if it fails, you would still have a backup with the built in memory.

I am totally fed up with the one or two slot argument. All sorts of non-photographic use come into the debate, does this help? I work professionally, for many years, mainly at weddings and events. The camera of choice is Leica and with both units, I use have only one slot. What I do is every new assignment, new memory cards are used, I only use cards more than once are for personal use, never for a paid assignment. I always purchase cards from reputable places never from Supermarkets, Local shops, cheap shops around the corner, Fleabay. Over the years I have been lucky enough to earn a living with photography, I have not had one card fail, and I never use the card again because that is a part of my backup system. People who always re-use a memory card are asking for trouble. So this video, I totally agree with the message.

Ive never had a card fail, ib saying that I would never shoot with one card.

I’m not a “professional” at all. But I have been paid for my work. And I made it a point to get to a place where I could get a camera with dual card slots as fast as possible. Not that having dual cards defines you as a pro. Just that having the redundancy in place protects you from a failure that could define you as unprofessional.

I disagree with both. We don't need 2 card slots. We don't even need 1 card slot. We simply need to take photos so amazing, so well composed that they will imediatly turn into ether and forever be available in the space time continuum.

So you tell me Canon have more technology like Sony, I don't think so, the duo memory don't make you more professional but stuff happen in the world we leave right now I prefer have to 2 no one.

Well I never put two rolls of film in my camera either. (Just in case) So many offended flounces making a song and dance about something and nothing.

I use a brand new card every gig. They're so cheap now and with lossless compression I can take more than 1000 images. These are class 10 v30 cards.

Food for thoughts: For decennia we shot film, where we even couldn't see the image before development, and look what it brought us, wonderful shots, great wedding reportages and now .. we can't do that anymore cause we only have 1 card slot .................................

@Scuderia_Fan

5 жыл бұрын

It's not about the quality of the photo's we take. Film, digital or even Polaroid, great photos can be made with with any of them in the right hands. This, has only to do with risk. Sure, most of us never will experience a card fail, but some do. Mostly on cheap cards, but even the pro cards fail. It just happens. And yes, back in the day, cameras could only load one film, so there was no backup as well in case something failed. But we live in an age now where technology gives us the option of using dual cards. So the big question is why wouldn't you want to use an extra safety net if one is provided? It doesn't take any extra effort to use an extra card. Of course there will be drawbacks in terms of speed and buffering, but for most of us, an extra bit of safety gives us more piece of mind. After all, some moments happen only once. Better be save then sorry as far as I am concerned. So while new cameras have a lot of new features, better quality and so on, it's a bit of a shame that given the technology availability, cameras are now being made with a single card slot. One can always decide to use only one of them, the other way around wouldn't be possible.

@RS-Amsterdam

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody said anything about quality, it's about quantity. In the past (film) there was no redundancy on a camera and nobody complained. Since there is , people complain. Other thing for comparison: In the past only 3 and 4 engine planes could cross the oceans just to be safe. Since then engines became better , more reliable and more output so now 3 and 4 engine planes are almost gone for passenger flights (in USA e.g. only for freights) . As Ed said, the chance of having a quality card give up does not justify the crying of a sing card slot anymore. And that is the step forward and safety net due to the improvement of technology you are talking about, it's not about more, but better !!

I've never had a card fail either

@clearlyed

5 жыл бұрын

I just think people are going a little nutty over this :) I think Nikon and canon got it right.

@mertkaracayil

5 жыл бұрын

True

@suckslip

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@thorstenwestheiderphotogra7722

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. I think a card failure is just as likely as dropping your camera accidentally. It happens, but rarely.

@mixxinmel

5 жыл бұрын

@@thorstenwestheiderphotogra7722 but when it do happen you will surely wish you had a backup. I know it has happened to me. Sony A7iii on the way as we speak.

Not to be rude but this reminds me of highschool kids who don't backup their files and loose all their big projects they have been working on. "I dont think harddrives fail often because it never happened to me." As an it professional I find claims about not having to backup always very puzzling.