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Somehow I used to manage to do weddings, and do it well enough to continue to receive bookings, shooting manual pack/head strobe systems and film, so you didn't even get the luxury of chimping to guess the exposure, we used a light meter lol
Modern ETTL on Canikon works well, though Fuji's balanced fill flash on the X100 series works darn good too, but nothing is fool-proof, and one really should at least have the ability to work with a manual system, and the logic behind it.
Even when I was shooting Canon, and then Nikon, I actually often still worked with manual flash. As good as the systems were, my favorite was using a Q-Flash, which I had an assistant carry around. It had the battery power to recycle fast, I could throw a pretty big modifier on it, or I could use it bare-bulb which had some unique looks.
Just a little verbal exchange with the assistant to change the power if needed, though we got pretty good with him just knowing where to position himself for a given output level.
I ironically then moved into shooting weddings with a Leica M9, 100% ambient, and that camera, while a classic, had high ISO worse than anything on the market these days.
One can certainly have a preferred system, and they do have different strengths, but there really is no reason quality work can't be done with Fuji, Olympus, Sony, CaNikon, Panasonic etc.
Maybe a set of Sigma DP Merrill's would prove a little frustrating but really anything else on the market is pretty much a dream compared to what we used to work with
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