Well after 7 great years of having my little side photo biz my wife and I have talked and will be closing up shop at the end of 2012. Have 2 young kids and a new job it's just becoming too hard to manage all the pieces.
I love my 5D II but it's too big to take on family trips and after some research I have turned my eyes to the Sony NEX-5n, great LITTLE camera. My big issue with it is that it doesn't have a hot shoe which means I won't be able to use my studio setup for friends and family when I close shop.
Really don't want to keep the 5D II around for just the rare time I need to do a quick shoot in the studio for a friend, (rather take that money and do some family stuff).
Started looking at continuous lighting and think this will be a perfect option for me when I want to do some studio shots or bring some lights out on location for a family shoot.
I have no clue what I should be looking at for a continuous lighting setup and was hoping to get some feedback here.
BabiesNBellies wrote:
Started looking at continuous lighting and think this will be a perfect option for me when I want to do some studio shots or bring some lights out on location for a family shoot.
Jeff
Jeff,
What does "bring some lights out on location for a family shoot" mean? Are you talking outside? You know that most continuous lighting is tungsten balanced (3200K). Daylight balanced continuous light with any significant output is usually expensive.
Is the driving force the Sony's lack of a hot shoe? It's a nice camera, but there are similar cameras roughly the same size that have hot shoes.
Also, I'm getting mixed messages. It sounds like you're wanting to downsize. Why go to a smaller camera only to break out or haul around lighting equipment? In addition, I can't imagine giving up a FF camera with large aperture lenses for doing portraiture. Instead of buying equipment to accomodate your friends (I assume for free), why not point them to J.C. Penny?
