I got the opportunity to shoot a small wedding a couple of weeks ago. Being my first wedding I hit google to find out what and how I should approach this. So ignoring the suggestions of buying a 5Dmk2 or D700 I pulled out my MZ-7 as my Pentax FF
. I know the question about shooting a wedding comes up a fair bit so I though I'd put down a few things that I learnt from my first time (shooting a wedding...). A lot of the information I got was from other users post on this forum was the most useful I found on the net.
To start with, the gear I used was
- K20D with an old 35-80mm (35mm format) sigma
- MZ-7 with FA-50 f1.4 and AF-360 flash
- Also swapped out DA 10-17mm at times.
In my googling on what gear I needed, one thing that kept coming up was Pentax slow AF while is workable, would be an issue. I found no issue with the AF on either the MZ-7 or K20D. All the shoots I wanted, including moving ones all focused correctly as quickly as I needed them too.
Additional gear I would have like to have had is another flash unit for the other camera and a faster lens covering the 15 to 50mm focal length.
The other thing is to make sure the bride and groom will work with you. The problem I face was they kept turn away from the camera regardless of what position I took.
So with all that aside and working with what i had, the end result for myself was that I gotten some pretty good photos. I'm happy with my first go. (o yeah, the couple were very happy also well
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