Jenn M
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Nov 5, 2006, 11:11 PM
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Re: [Toogy] Why it's important to have backup equipment.
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HI Jeff,
I agree. We bought a backup right away. Even though we didn't have any official jobs yet... I knew if I was going to offer the service to anyone, I would need a backup. We know our luck too well.
Well, sure enough, at one of our first engagment shoots, the same exact thing happened to our 20D - it basically froze. We THINK the issue was the battery - Brian popped it out and put it back in - when he did this he said it seemed as though when he removed it, it was kind of loose - as if it hadn't snapped in, so perhaps the terminals weren't completely in contact with one another.
We now have 3 SLRs, just in case.
I worked with a photographer back in June - a seasoned photog who has been doing this for over 15 years. She didn't have a working backup. She brought one of her old film SLRs but no film. Okay, what good does that do? Anyway, she had something on her sensor and a black dot appeared on all the images. She discovered this during the prep formals and we lost soooo much time waiting for her to try to fix it - she was freaking out (hyper by nature), removing the lens, blowing air on it, replacing the lens, shooting a test image, then reapeating the procees several times. If she had brought a working backup, she could have set the dirty SLR aside and fixed it during downtime, instead of while everyone was standing around waiting for her. argggg
So, like I said, I knew right away - gotta have a backup.
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