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EM1 or D600, for Weddings?

Started May 6, 2014 | Discussions thread
Toccata47 Senior Member • Posts: 2,800
Re: EM1 or D600, for Weddings?
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Liqu wrote:

If you are planning to shoot weddings for a living, or get paid to do it, remember this: you are shooting for their most important day in their lives. Don't mess about and compromise image quality with a MFT, when you and me both know FF still gets the best results no matter how you look at it.

Yikes. The best results I've seen come from medium format.

The reality is that most photographers greatly overshoot clients expectations with respect to image quality. Wedding clients care about content not grain, noise and what have you. Nail that and they are usually happy.

Client's that book you without first seeing your work don't care about the result, they just want the job done. For people that do care (everyone) they can decide if what you have to offer matches their needs, expectations, etc.

While one person may need a FF system to provide the results they need, not everyone is similarly constrained and not everyone shoot the same way, in the same venue, etc.

Most importantly, there are people doing it…and successfully.

Yes, the MFT is a great system and I'm completely in love with it. But it has its compromises, MFT hasn't matured enough yet to be shooting in low-light and if the couple asks for shots in low light or something, you need to have a FF camera ready.

I'm not saying it's impossible to shoot weddings with the MFT, but be responsible and always have a FF camera with you. I know there are quite a few wedding photographers out there using MFT cameras, but I can asure you they always have a FF camera as a backup, just incase.

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