On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Boris Liberman wrote: > Why on Earth one would want to take a 6MP DSLR to be a backup of yet > another 6MP DSLR?! > > Bringing many batteries or memory cards or even lenses <wink> makes > sense. But why would one want to bring another body?! > > I am discounting things such as splash of wine one the wedding or > clumsy assistant or even clumsy photog himself (me e.g.), but > seriously?!
Body failure is a very valid reason. A friend who was travelling in France last year had to drop back to a P&S digital camera when the mirror assembly on his Canon D30 failed. I can't use my *ist D right now because it is off at Pentax getting a new CF door, but that doesn't mean that I don't have anything that I want to shoot. I wouldn't mind having another body for the occasional events where I need to shoot often and quickly. I don't shoot weddings but could see loading one up with a moderate wide angle lens (28mm or so) for group shots and keeping another with a moderate telephoto lens (75mm) for portraits and head shots. Sure, a zoom can handle both of these ranges, but primes are generally sharper, have better bokeh, and are faster. Film can work in these cases, but honestly I don't really want to shoot film these days. alex
