Getting Digital Files Home Safely

Professional photographers know that clients accept no excuses. If you don't deliver, you don't get paid, and if you screw up badly enough, your future career can be in jeopardy.
Fine art and amateur photographers going on long and arduous shoots also know that their often not-inconsiderable investments of time and money will be forfeit if they don't come home with the goods.
In the days of shooting film this meant concerns about accidental loss or theft of film, along with X-Ray damage and lab mishaps. Labs are now out of the equation, and X-Rays don't affect memory cards or hard drives. But the potential for loss of images due to memory card and hard disk errors, as well as simple loss and theft of property, remain as serious issues.

The Card Player. Guilin, China. October, 2005
Canon 5D with 24-105mm L IS @ ISO 800
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Safeguarding
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