Will FF replace APSc? I hope not. It’s about choice - having the right tool for the task at hand.
My daughter was married last summer outdoors overlooking the Mississippi River at an historic house property. She kept asking me whether the cameras the photographers she was interviewing were good. I told her to itake a step back, ignore the gear and look at the online sample portfolios. Only two potential shooters she culled got through a 15 minute phone call without blathering about 5DMkll’s or L lenses.
She had me sit quietly for the interviews at the site. Shooting the event would be quite challenging. The winning pair
asked her what she wanted, which was the requisite formal shots with what she called ‘focused people and blurred, backgrounds’, ‘some shots of the beautiful landscape with people in them’ and ‘lots of pictures of people having fun’ - but “don’t be in the way.” They asked about the time of the event. Dressing started at 9:30am. Formals were to be indoors in the historic house and less formal wedding party shots outdoors in front of blooming flowers around 11:30am-01:30pm. (A different photographer did B&W studio portraits of my daughter).Guests arrived by bus at 3:00pm. The ceremony was to be in full sun at 4:00pm, dinner was under a tent, cocktails went through Blue Hour and into full dusk and dancing was under LED colored stage lights, all outdoors. Light changed constantly. Settings and goals changed constantly.
When they started rapid-fire talking to each other about dynamic range, Depth of Field, switching from 5d’s to 7d’s and back, is 24-70 wide enough? Is 70-200 long enough?, looking at positions, talking lenses and lights, sun and shadow, white balance under the tent - my daughter turned to me and asked, “Dad, what are they talking about?” I said, “They’re talking about using the right cameras and lenses to give you the photos you want.” They stopped talking mid-sentence and looked at me . . . . and I asked, “Can you do what she wants?”
Later we talked about the K-1 and FA43 I pulled out from under the side table.
Last edited by monochrome; 03-24-2018 at 09:28 AM.