Originally posted by Flugelbinder Joe Buissink, Jerry Ghionis, Ryan Brenizer... Want me to keep mentioning them? Sue Brice, Bambi Cantrell...
I guess you didn't see what I posted. No one said there were no top professional photographers shooting Full Frame, after all, it has definite advantages for some types of shooters.
Check out this list..
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/38-photographic-technique/203024-who-took...hotograph.html
There are some Full Frame shooters on there, but the top 2, Gursky shoots 5x7 film and scans it, and Peter Lik shoots MF and now owns a Pentax 645. Now without going through everyone you've named, the first two are wedding photogrpahers. My cousin used to have a very successful wedding photography business. He shot with Hasleblads, looked down his nose at 35mm like you wouldn't believe, but i have to say, in selecting only wedding photographers, you're really narrowed your range of "top professionals". While I have every bit of respect for wedding professionals, I would say, theirs is a very specialized business, and requires very specialized gear. It would be insane for most people to tailor their camera gear using wedding professionals as an example. Most people would be invoking un-necessary expense going that route.
That would be like me saying "top professionals" own 600mm ƒ4 lenses, so everyone should. After all, how are you going to take pictures of the little birds without that? Those little birds are as important to some as weddings are to others.
As a general rule, people shouldn't buy their gear based on what wedding professionals use,unless they plan to shoot weddings.
Ive found a host of wedding professionals that use APS_c on line, they seem to get work too.
Is that enough or should I keep slapping?