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Using the R and R7 for shooting a conference

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
Rock and Rollei Senior Member • Posts: 2,899
Re: Using the R and R7 for shooting a conference

R2D2 wrote:

Very nicely done! You definitely got lucky indeed with the (non-banding) lighting.

I was wondering if you have the RF 28-70 on your roadmap at all. It allows for a significantly higher amount of compositional flexibility vs swapping out a number of primes.

No it won’t take the place of the beautiful new f/1.2 primes shot wide open, but for event shooting it’s been a real game changer for me. A perfect complement to the 70-200/2.8.

R2

ps. R&R I’d put the same question to you too.

If it wasn't for COVID, I would almost certainly have it now. I'm still not shooting as many conferences as I was before, and I'm quite enjoying semi retirement, of I'm honest.

But if I do get the numbers back up, it's a no-brainer. A stop saving over the f2.8 means a stop lower ISO, and if that means I can get away without using Deep Prime, that's potentially a decent time saving, with a pure Lightroom workflow. I'll typically shoot around 2000 shots, and aim to deliver 400 to the client, so it could be a decent time saving, even taking into account that the focal length range would only suit about a third of the images. And that's without considering the shooting flexibility of only really needing 2 lenses.

For event photography - well I can't imagine a more useful lens.

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