Panic Attack

I have a four different mirrorless bodies and a bunch of lenses to choose from. I bought Nikon Z7 when it was their top pro model and ended up with two so I could have everything (buttons, dials, functions) all in the same place on both cameras. I got a Z6 which is the same exact camera but half the megapixels. All of the buttons and dials are still in the same place, but I usually give this to second shooter or use it for video.

My primary body is my Z9 and I use a Z7 with a different lens, usually a 70-200 because I’m not working as fast with that lens and frankly the camera isn’t as fast to focus and lock on to subjects as the Z9. I just can’t keep up with moving subjects on the older Z7 like I can on the Z9. I use multiple cameras as a backup. If one camera totally fails, or a battery dies during a key event, I still have some photos to deliver to the client.

My cameras have different filenames so if there is ever a problem with my photos, I can narrow it down to which camera just by looking at the file names. This system just seems to make sense to me.

I got home from the last wedding and was sorting photos based on filenames and I was missing ALL of the photos from one of my cameras. The bride would never know because I still had over 6000 photos from her wedding, but I was really wondering what photos I lost. I was literally heartbroken.

Then going through the photos, I saw myself in an image. It was at that point I realized that I didnt lose any pictures. I can copy and paste settings across my cameras and I had done that not long before the wedding. I had just forgotten to change the filename back to indicate that the cameras were different bodies. Turns out my panic when I got home was actually not an issue.