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InSanE wrote:
Come on pipl, sure new cameras must be better. How much better and is it relevant to wedding photography is another question.
Its not like decent wedding photography did not exist prior to late 2017. or pics were not in focus and well exposed.
Did you ever shoot weddings on film, medium format? Your comment certainly makes me question that. First of all, very few photos back in the day of wedding film photography were action shots. By far they were posed, look in the camera shots. Even walking down the isle at a church were either zone focused and shot at f8, f11 etc or the couples were told where to stop in the aisle so that the photographer could focus and be assured that his subject were tack sharp. To this very day I still get bridesmaids who want to stop during the procession so that we can take their photo. So yeah, back then photos were sharp, photographers were not doing crazy reception dancing photos or other kinds of action shots like we are today. The equipment was manual focus and it simply was to easy, if not impossible to shoot those kinds of images. Wedding photography had an entirely different look to the images than they do today.
35mm dSLR have allowed for new styles and new ways of shooting that just were not possible back then. So yeah, most of us here are looking for gear that will focus in near no light situations and snag focus reliably frame after frame. That IS important to us so I personally am looking for any advantage that I can get in the AF department. If I was still shooting like photographers did 25-30 years it would not be a big deal but it is to me now.
Then regarding your comment about being exposed properly. Hahaha, film made photographers look like they were nailing exposure because they were shooting neg film and the labs were fixing everything for them. True story. Back in that day the labs were saving the necks of every other wedding photographer because they could not consistently nail exposure but their proofs looked good. But if you ever worked in a film lab or talked with a film tech you would know better.
InSanE wrote:
Stop pushing new gear as something even remotely important to our trade because it is NOT.
Couldn't disagree with you more.
InSanE wrote:
Same as lens sharpness. Why the fuck would you want a razor sharp prime lens to photograph people? So you can take extra time bluring their faces in PS and print it 10x15 300dpi at your local grocery?
I will give you that about lenses. I stopped buying some time ago all the super fast, super expensive f1.2, 1.4 lenses because I don't need them for weddings and portraits. Clients just want their photos in focus they don't care about the softest bokeh possible. But they do want them in focus and the fewer photos that I can throw away because of missed focus the happier I am. So yes new gear that can achieve more accurate focus consistently is something that I look at with each succeeding model.
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