RustyBug wrote: Red Marx wrote:
I don't shoot weddings. If I did shoot weddings I would expect to generate income. Why would one shoot weddings with an entry-level FF camera? Unless it's your very first paid wedding you should have the capital to by a camera with dual card slots.
Regarding this center-point sensitivity issue, when was this -3EV, which doesn't count in servo, -2EV, which does count in servo, specification equalled or surpassed by any other camera? Did the D4S have effective -3EV focussing on AF-C? D810? 1D Mark III? 5D Mark II? How about -2EV?
I know focus assist mechanisms can be annoying at the least, but with one I can focus in darkness. Then again, I don't shoot weddings.
And if one is shooting weddings for income ... yup, they probably should choose a dual card body, as well as have a second camera for backup gear.
Granted, there will always be those (been there, done that) who will tackle things with lesser tools, and still manage to pull it off just fine. But, if you're gonna stake your livelihood on it ... probably a bit more sage to go with a different tool. In addition to the dual card issue ... I'd want the 1/250 sync speed for certain with wedding work. It's been 20+ years (film era) since I shot weddings. That said .. I'm sure there are / will be plenty of folks shooting events with a single card that never get "bit" by it.
Although, that kinda makes me wonder how we ever got by with just one roll of film in the camera ... oh yeah, we shot multiple rolls of film across multiple bodies.
+1 for almost everything you wrote.
The differences:
I never shot film so I have no experience. Lol.
I want 1/250th x-sync as well, but it brings up a question in my mind. How is -3EV focusing a limitation (-2EV in servo so I've heard) for weddings. Are these "available-light only" weddings? I don't frequent the wedding forum on FM, but I do a lot of reading in regards to strobes/flash. It seems from the strobe/flash reading that most of the participants are wedding & portrait photographers. Modeling lights? AF assist on the hotshot trigger? AF assist light on the camera? (Please not the strobe thing that Canon does though, that is not a solution IMO.) Sometimes I think there is more trolling on here than many of us would like.
Oh, I'm one of the 1/8000th max SS requesters. I do have 72mm ND filters for my 85L II, but it's easier to just have one more stop of SS for me. If I knew of a technical reason for the minor limitations on this camera I wouldn't complain. It seems like it's protectionism on Canon's part though. I guess every major camera company is doing it. If not to protect higher-line models, then to protect the same manufacturer's cinema line. (Sony, Canon, Fuji, not Nikon obviously.)
All will be well with the 6D Mark II. Limitations will be worked around successfully. 😊
Jul 05, 2017 at 07:37 PM
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