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Question of the Day: Do you carry a spare camera with you on your shoots?12506

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DanSmigrod private msg quote post Address this user
Hi All,

The WGAN Forum Question of the Day for Wednesday, 15 July 2020:

Do you carry a spare camera with you on your shoots?

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Dan

This WGAN Question of the Day was inspired by WGAN Member @lilnitsch that posted to the following to this WGAN Forum discussion ...

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Originally Posted by @lilnitsch
I like redundancy.

I have gotten busy enough where I now send a family member a second direction on certain shoots.

My policy it to carry an heir & a spare for all equipment on a shoot. So, each shooter carries two DSLR’s, a Z1 & a V or sc2 for Zillow’s 3D home tours (v or sc2 are just in case) and a Pro2 w/a Pro1 back up.

I never want to show up to a property unable to perform due to some sort of hardware issues
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rzphotoman private msg quote post Address this user
I carry 1 Matterport Pro 2 and 2 drones. Haven't crashed a Pro 2 yet.
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EaglePrecision private msg quote post Address this user
I carry: 3 drones (one is non-DJI), 3 cameras (2 DSLRs & an InstaOne R), at least three batteries for each, at least one battery charger for each plus one battery backup inverter, one monopod and one tripod.
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Expertise private msg quote post Address this user
No. We've done approximately 9000 shoots, we have had exactly 2 camera failures, shutters broke (worn out). Total time lost was probably 2 hours labor.


To have backups for everything we use would cost like $30k or something crazy like that.
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