Hello all,
I thought I would share my recent experiences and why backup equipment is so important for a working professional and why cost must be factor in.
I have 4 mishaps in 2-3 months alone....
1. During a newborn session and one of the elder sibling decided to throw basket ball around and my DSLR end up on the floor away from me and the lens just don't work properly.
2. One my my DSLR has done about 200k on the shutter, Shutter has been replaced after 150k but the next thing that goes was the "mirror", I was in a shoot and the mirror just fell off.. think the glue that hold the mirror in-place give way.
3. One of my crew accidentally deleted some images from the primary storage.
4. One of my Macbook Pro just died on me...
Anyway.... in any case, the mishap is unavoidable in my opinion but I always insist on having the backup equipment with me so there isn't much interuption.
There are a few issues here to consider...
1. The time factor... I do mostly portrait, I have contract in place to offer re-shoot if the equipment fail to work, but it is the time that we can't afford.
2. Client's preception... this is very important as your reputation is at stake if your equipment fail to operate and what your client would think about that?
3. Lost of revenue... instead of spending time booking another assignment, you will have to spend time re-do what you have done partly.
4. There are things under very tight schedules, so having a downtime might cause lost of business.
I generally would keep 2 DSLR of the same grade and important focal lenght that I use when I am out shooting and having additional back-up will reduce the issues that I have mentioned....
It is expensive but nonetheless very important to have those, just in case something happen.
For those who doesn't have a backup equipment, or have been putting it off and hoping this wont happen to them might want to re-check their finance to do this...
If you have factor in your backup equipment, a sudden mishap don't throw your finance around and cause you lost of revenue.
As far as business goes, the less downtime, the better... Don't take chances...
Give it a thought guys....
I am sure everyone has their own experiences about different type of mishap when they are in the market long enough.... perhaps, please share them so it benefit others who reads this.
Regards,
Hart
I thought I would share my recent experiences and why backup equipment is so important for a working professional and why cost must be factor in.
I have 4 mishaps in 2-3 months alone....
1. During a newborn session and one of the elder sibling decided to throw basket ball around and my DSLR end up on the floor away from me and the lens just don't work properly.
2. One my my DSLR has done about 200k on the shutter, Shutter has been replaced after 150k but the next thing that goes was the "mirror", I was in a shoot and the mirror just fell off.. think the glue that hold the mirror in-place give way.
3. One of my crew accidentally deleted some images from the primary storage.
4. One of my Macbook Pro just died on me...
Anyway.... in any case, the mishap is unavoidable in my opinion but I always insist on having the backup equipment with me so there isn't much interuption.
There are a few issues here to consider...
1. The time factor... I do mostly portrait, I have contract in place to offer re-shoot if the equipment fail to work, but it is the time that we can't afford.
2. Client's preception... this is very important as your reputation is at stake if your equipment fail to operate and what your client would think about that?
3. Lost of revenue... instead of spending time booking another assignment, you will have to spend time re-do what you have done partly.
4. There are things under very tight schedules, so having a downtime might cause lost of business.
I generally would keep 2 DSLR of the same grade and important focal lenght that I use when I am out shooting and having additional back-up will reduce the issues that I have mentioned....
It is expensive but nonetheless very important to have those, just in case something happen.
For those who doesn't have a backup equipment, or have been putting it off and hoping this wont happen to them might want to re-check their finance to do this...
If you have factor in your backup equipment, a sudden mishap don't throw your finance around and cause you lost of revenue.
As far as business goes, the less downtime, the better... Don't take chances...
Give it a thought guys....
I am sure everyone has their own experiences about different type of mishap when they are in the market long enough.... perhaps, please share them so it benefit others who reads this.
Regards,
Hart
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