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Accroding to the data sheet and every review I've read for the Folio 9470m it's supposed to have an SD card reader between the RJ-45 jack and the VGA adapter. On my computer there is a large slot there, but it's not an SD card slot. What is it and why doesn't this computer have an SD card slot? It's one of the reasons I chose this model, so it's a bit disappointing.
I hear it's not safe to risk it, at least not as the primary shooter. If that's true, should I just save up for a body with a dual card slots, like the R6MII for example? What kind of gigs are safe to do with a single card slot?
It's always best to have dual card slots for crucial events. Though it will be more important to have a solid data plan in place. i.e. how soon after the event is over, will you back up those cards? Do you have redundant storage either locally and/or the cloud?
1. Always have a second body and lens with you for any critical event. Either/both can fail unexpectedly. Having a second body also allows you to take shots with both using different focal length glass which gives you both separate presentations of the same scenes AND it provides a very robust form of backup.
2. After you do that low level format in the camera, move the menu setting to a different non-destructive menu choice so an unintended button push or jostling a camera left powered up doesn't result in formatting your card.
Redundant cards aren't a bad idea BUT there are a lot of sources of failure that dual cards don't address (like a camera board failure that writes destructive data to both your cards) or theft of the camera before you have the data in a safe place.
I shoot primarily sports and although I wouldn't want to lose a play it wouldn't be as critical losing part of a wedding ceremony. I use only Canon 1 series for sports and these all have dual card slots but I never have both written simultaneously. In nearly 2 decades of use and shooting hundreds of events, I have never had a data/card issue with these bodies.
I spent much of my career working with enterprise risk management; having a card fail is only one of many potential things that can happen resulting in you not capturing/losing images from a critical event. So don't focus on dual cards to the exclusion of all of the other risks that need to be managed.
Since your question assumedly indicates that you are pretty new to wedding photography, I would suggest you consider how you will shoot the wedding to get the best results for you and the celebrants' parties and guests.
In that respect, I recommend looking on You Tube for Vanessa Joy, who is a wedding and events specialist. She has quite a few videos you may find useful on what to shoot and how to do it. You can contact her to ask specific questions too, I believe.
Also, be aware that emotions can run high during a wedding, and there can be a lot of PR efforts required to get people where you need them to be, and to not ruffle any feathers.
One thing to discuss with the bridal party is cell phones. A lot of guests will bring them to the event wanting to get their own shots. This can be very problematic if you are providing the 'official' images - for example, as the happy couple go down the isle and you line up to get those classical images, it's a killer when guests step out with arms extended to shoot with a phone in front of you. Quite a few wedding photographers ask the organizers to tell people to NOT take photos and videos of their own at certain parts of the nuptials.
If you are planning to do this on a paying client basis, you will need a contract that clearly lays out what you will provide and in what form, and for what price. Even if it is as a volunteer, you need to know what they expect and some kind of memorandum may be of use instead.
So I'm pretty sure that maybe the hardware was the problem. So I ask here for some guide to disassemble on how to disassemble or open the front panel of the router but to no avail, no one responds to my thread.
I'm starting to get frustrated since it's only 2 years since I bought this device, meanwhile my old modem which was supposed to be the predecessor of my mr600 was still working since 2015. It's also the most expensive modem I bought.
I already lose hope and think the modem is now for disposal but I just go YOLO and give it another try. I opened up my unit, damaging the case slightly in the process (couple of broken tabs and bent plastic grey thing in the front.
Without proper assessment, I just assume that maybe... the problem was with the sim card slot, I read a couple of times here that they need to press harder even put a paper at the top of the sim just to make the sim card read.
Tried searching on the internet for the replacement of the sim card slot. Fortunately, I found some international store that sells it for 4$ ( it was for mr6400 but I think they are using the same slot for all tp-link LTE modems). Bought a piece and takes a week to receive the item.
I asked my friend who is a phone/gadget technician to replace the sim card slot since I don't have the tools to replace it. He was baffled since It's so rare especially for a modem to have a broken sim card slot. He advises that the usual culprit for that problem is the IC chip for the sim card. He decides to proceed with the replacement without assurance of fixing it.
Fortunately, the modem works, NOW ITS PERFECTLY FINE. I'm really not sure how the sim card slot of my modem broke since I rarely remove the sim card from the modem. Maybe tp-link can take a note of this.
You hardly ever need a backup, so i find RAW and JPEG the best option. Should the card containing RAW files fail anyway, you still have backup, albeit in JPEG format. Acceptable, for those may-never-happen occasions.
So it depends on what you do. I find that those fast-delivery JPEGs are not needed very often, and do prefer to deliver processed (by me) files instead of camera processed JPEGs. So i might almost as well just use just the one card (or put RAW on both - two cards = more moneyvand more archival storage. So maybe just one?)
Theoretically, RAW / jpeg should clear the buffer the fastest (of options that save both), but depends on camera. As jpeg files are smaller, you could either use unequal sized cards (64/32), or equal size and switch to putting everything on card 2 should you fill card 1 and have no spares / time to switch.
For serious work as in once-in-a-lifetime or paid work I would always use a second card for back-up. I am normally fine with RAW+JPG, but that is because in the few cases I have done critical stuff I was only expected to dump the JPGs to the client post shoot and no further processing was expected on my part - RAW was just my insurance in case Auto WB or something misbehaved. If post processing is required, I would do RAW+RAW in case of card failure.
The only decision is whether to separate Raw from Jpeg to increase storage capacity - slightly. Although since JPEGs are much smaller than Raw files, I'm not convinced there's a heap of benefit there.
Personally, I'd store Raw+Jpeg, mirrored on both cards. But it depends how heavily you rely on Raw, and how paranoid you are about losing one file type over the other. But then a Raw file will always be able to generate a Jpeg, not vice-versa.
Most of my shooting is recreational, in parks, during travel, etc. Many times I shoot bracketd exposures which triples the usage. It makes sense for me to shoot to one card with automatic transfer to the second card when the first is full.
For a paid job, it makes sense to duplicate shots, or split cards between RAW and JPEG. JPEG is useful when speed of delivery is important, for example, news coverage. For an important one-time event (e.g., a wedding), RAW + RAW would be my choice. There's no scientific explanation, but a card dropped on a boat dock will fall cleanly between the boards into the water, or into a crack between rocks.
Shooting video uses a lot of card space, so serial storage makes sense. While I usually use an external recorder, in-camera storage provides an effective backup. My Sony cameras let me do both simultaneously, at different resolutions or bandwidth if necessary. For recreational use, with a mix of stills and video, reserving the second card for video helps organize your work. Most of the time I record both to the same card and sort it out in post.
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