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>1 - you need moar card slots
You don't need 2 cards slots. You need to learn card management. Cards fail due to excessive write cycles and data fragmentation. Never cull on camera. Fill your card entirely before wiping it. If you are working for someone, use a fresh card. They're thirty fucking bucks. Problem solved. Ignore this advice and enjoy having your dual cards fail anyways.
I have never experienced a card failure since the days of 1gb primitive SD cards that would 100% be filled at least 20 times in a week. I have always used single cards. You are more likely to need a full sized HDMI port than a second card slot.
>2 - ETTR is an essential skill
You do not need to ETTR or protect all the highlights. Even in 25 stop DR human vision some areas are pure black and pure white. As long as the areas transitioning to these don't hard clip in one or two channels the photo will look good. Expose for the subject, not for the bokeh balls and lightbulbs.
>3 - flash looks bad
Your cheap diffuser, poor understanding of shadow and contrast, and inability to use gels to match flash to ambient light looks bad. Skill issue.
>4 - "equivalence" and dynamic range charts are useful
Use your eyeballs and the shadow and highlight sliders and observe how your results will always beat the charts and be noncongruent with equivalence theories because the way cameras work on real images is actually a bit more sophisticated. Real dynamic range testing is a lost art among photographers. DXO scores were invented to be easily cheated review metrics, not anything relevant to IRL photography. Just ignore them, most every camera handles DR better than you need it to unless its micro four thirds.
>5 - lens sharpness is a bar graph
It is certainly not. Most often these bar graph tests are actually field curvature at 5 meters test. Lens performance varies between MFD and infinity and so does the shape of the depth of field.
>6 - color science is in your camera
It's actually in your lens.
You don't need 2 cards slots. You need to learn card management. Cards fail due to excessive write cycles and data fragmentation. Never cull on camera. Fill your card entirely before wiping it. If you are working for someone, use a fresh card. They're thirty fucking bucks. Problem solved. Ignore this advice and enjoy having your dual cards fail anyways.
I have never experienced a card failure since the days of 1gb primitive SD cards that would 100% be filled at least 20 times in a week. I have always used single cards. You are more likely to need a full sized HDMI port than a second card slot.
>2 - ETTR is an essential skill
You do not need to ETTR or protect all the highlights. Even in 25 stop DR human vision some areas are pure black and pure white. As long as the areas transitioning to these don't hard clip in one or two channels the photo will look good. Expose for the subject, not for the bokeh balls and lightbulbs.
>3 - flash looks bad
Your cheap diffuser, poor understanding of shadow and contrast, and inability to use gels to match flash to ambient light looks bad. Skill issue.
>4 - "equivalence" and dynamic range charts are useful
Use your eyeballs and the shadow and highlight sliders and observe how your results will always beat the charts and be noncongruent with equivalence theories because the way cameras work on real images is actually a bit more sophisticated. Real dynamic range testing is a lost art among photographers. DXO scores were invented to be easily cheated review metrics, not anything relevant to IRL photography. Just ignore them, most every camera handles DR better than you need it to unless its micro four thirds.
>5 - lens sharpness is a bar graph
It is certainly not. Most often these bar graph tests are actually field curvature at 5 meters test. Lens performance varies between MFD and infinity and so does the shape of the depth of field.
>6 - color science is in your camera
It's actually in your lens.
