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Least Expensive SLR with Dual Slots
Sony Alpha DSLR-A390 The Sony Alpha DSLR-A390 is the least expensive DSLR we've seen with multiple storage slots.

Some cameras can take more than one memory card permitting greater storage. Higher end cameras permit different uses of each slot including placing backup copies of each image on the 2nd card, using it for overflow or splitting the storage of JPEG and RAW files. Typically dual card slots are only found in prosumer and professional SLRs, entry level SLRs tend to have a single slot.

Although many professional DSLRS provide dual CF (compact flash) slots the slow movement of SDHC and now SDXC up the chain is changing that. With SDXC 2TB limit and speed improvements expect to see manufacturers take advantage of SDs tiny footprint to get dual slots in much smaller cameras.

SLRs with Dual Card Slots

The following are some of the best DSLRs with dual card slots

Nikon D800
Nikon D800
from $2,999
Low light performance Low noise at high ISO Help
2,853 ISO
Overall image quality Great image quality Help
95.0
True resolution High true resolution Help
36.2 MP

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Nikon D4
Nikon D4
from $5,999
Low light performance Low noise at high ISO Help
2,965 ISO
Overall image quality Great image quality Help
89.0
Color depth Great color depth Help
24.7 bits

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
from $3,499
Low light performance Low noise at high ISO Help
2,293 ISO
Overall image quality Great image quality Help
81.0
Screen size Large screen Help
3.2"

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Nikon D7000
Nikon D7000
from $1,000
Low light performance Low noise at high ISO Help
1,167 ISO
Overall image quality Great image quality Help
80.0
Focus points Many focus points Help
39

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Tom (2:23 AM, January 04, 2012)
Agreed.

For sony you might as well just keep an extra card in your pocket because you can only use one at a time.

Sony should ditch memory stick
 
Peter (1:04 PM, June 05, 2011)
Dual slots are very useful, since you can't lose photos to a bad memory card, but that's not what Sony does. The Sony cameras do have dual slots, but they're useless and degenerate dual slots. You cannot take photos to both cards -- one card is SD, one is MemoryStick, and you pick one or the other in the menu system. The only reason Sony does it is because they refuse to give up on MemoryStick. I would not list this as a feature for the Sonys.