Using the R and R7 for shooting a conference

R2D2 wrote:

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

Yes. I've taken pictures in many different rooms on campus here, and, so far, only one has lighting that caused banding with e-shutter (just switched back to mechanical for that one).

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.

That would be a really cool lens. I don't think I'll get it though, for a couple of reasons. One, it's huge and heavy. But more importantly there's the expense. This isn't a paid job for me. I take pictures at events here on campus as a favor to my department, and because I like to have a record of the events I organize to share with the participants. There isn't a lot of money in academia, especially the non-STEM fields. I run my conference every year on a shoestring budget, even though it's the largest annual international ethics conference in the world. No-one goes into philosophy for the money. If I were photographing corporate events for money, I'd absolutely consider the 28-70. But I don't think I'd ever want to do that.

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.