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Buy R5 or R6 mark II and wait for R5 mark II

Started 2 months ago | Questions thread
MarshallG
MarshallG Veteran Member • Posts: 8,951
Re: Buy R5 or R6 mark II and wait for R5 mark II

“I’m a professional portrait photographer who shoots in low light”

No camera is going to fix that problem.  In my book, if you aren’t a lighting professional, then you aren’t a professional portrait photographer, you’re a guy with an expensive money hustling people into thinking you’ll deliver professional results.  I’m being blunt because you are taking people’s money, and you shouldn’t

You can get as offended as you want, but I bet you haven’t read any books on professional portraiture, have you? Taken classes? Because the books talk about lighting and the instructors teach you about lighting.

What I think is study lighting, but the lighting equipment and use it a LOT on a model until you master it. Then you can worry about a camera and a lens. The most important equipment in portraiture is:

1) Lighting

2) Lens

3) Camera

For a lens, look at a Canon 85mm f/1.4 or f/1.2.  There are several and they’re all amazing and none of them are cheap.  For an amazing portrait body cheap, the 5Dsr. Otherwise, any of the R5 or R6 bodies; their eye autofocus is great with the razor-thin DoF of the fast 85mm lenses.

 MarshallG's gear list:MarshallG's gear list
Canon EOS R5 Canon EF 50mm F1.4 USM Canon EF 85mm F1.8 USM Canon EF 16-35mm F2.8L II USM Canon Extender EF 1.4x II +4 more
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