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<blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 677689" data-attributes="member: 7240">Do cards really fail so often? Nikon's first camera with two card slots was D3, before that millions of professionals happily shot billions of photographs with Nikon gear.Before that people shot film without possibility of a second roll. Happily. Films failed too, and developer machines failed. But not that often.I have about 60-70 CF cards and even my very first 0.5 GB and 1 GB Lexar cards still work happily, despite that the printing on the labels has faded. I still use them on my D1H and D1X (2BG max card size).I have yet to have one card fail at me, and I have shot millions of digital images in 20 years using 20+ Nikon DSLRs. I have had a few shutters fail on me after they have been worn out, but not a single CF card. Sure, this is but a single data point and a singular anecdote, but still very true.I strongly believe XQD is of much higher quality than CF.And yes cards do fail, that's inevitable, but I believe the hysteria is way out of proportion. I have many cameras with 2 slots but I only use them in overflow mode.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pforsell, post: 677689, member: 7240"] Do cards really fail so often? Nikon's first camera with two card slots was D3, before that millions of professionals happily shot billions of photographs with Nikon gear. Before that people shot film without possibility of a second roll. Happily. Films failed too, and developer machines failed. But not that often. I have about 60-70 CF cards and even my very first 0.5 GB and 1 GB Lexar cards still work happily, despite that the printing on the labels has faded. I still use them on my D1H and D1X (2BG max card size). I have yet to have one card fail at me, and I have shot millions of digital images in 20 years using 20+ Nikon DSLRs. I have had a few shutters fail on me after they have been worn out, but not a single CF card. Sure, this is but a single data point and a singular anecdote, but still very true. I strongly believe XQD is of much higher quality than CF. And yes cards do fail, that's inevitable, but I believe the hysteria is way out of proportion. I have many cameras with 2 slots but I only use them in overflow mode. [/QUOTE]

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