Minolta & weddings

eye-spy said:

i shot these on a dimage 7i and 5600hsd

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

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The image has a nasty blue cast, it is soft, & you have blown out the white dress.

eye-spy said:

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

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(you said it, not me!)

If you're trying to prove what I consider to be a VERY VALID point, try to post some decent pics to prove it.

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JF

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'earthbound or not, he's still a troll.'

I've shot a wedding as the main photographer in the last month on an A2. with a battery pack and flash you look like a pro and for me- the powerful flash was a godsend.

One thing though - I did this as a favour using two cameras - also had my Dynax & as a backup. It worked well and the couple were chuffed to bits but I certainly knew it was harder work with the A2 as

Focus is generally slower
shots were tough in low light &
I didn't move over 100 ISO because of noise

So why the A2 you may ask. Well:
1) I am not a pro - just a brave soul who came out lucky and
2) with digital- at least you have a fair idea that the shot is in the bag.

You may be interested to know that I produced 287 contact pictures for the couple. Of those, 3 came from negatives as back up where the focus fauiled me. They weren't so good as the digital mainly because of low power, or no fill in flash.

Perhaps the D7 will be the answer!!!!!!!!

I'll post some images up in the next week or two when i update my website and will post on here in case anyone is still reading the thread.

Les

Joseph_Farrugia said:

eye-spy said:

i shot these on a dimage 7i and 5600hsd

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

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The image has a nasty blue cast, it is soft, & you have blown out
the white dress.

Joseph_Farrugia said:

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

Click to expand...

(you said it, not me!)

If you're trying to prove what I consider to be a VERY VALID point,
try to post some decent pics to prove it.

--
JF

--
'earthbound or not, he's still a troll.'

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is this any better?

You what will happen if you use a little A2 for Weddings..!!

What a crack up!

CRaig

eye-spy said:

Joseph_Farrugia said:

eye-spy said:

i shot these on a dimage 7i and 5600hsd

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

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The image has a nasty blue cast, it is soft, & you have blown out
the white dress.

eye-spy said:

a camera is only as good as the person holding it.

Click to expand...

(you said it, not me!)

If you're trying to prove what I consider to be a VERY VALID point,
try to post some decent pics to prove it.

--
JF

--
'earthbound or not, he's still a troll.'

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is this any better?

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Joseph_Farrugia said:

Joseph_Farrugia said:

Oh yes, I think you answered my question on the other forum too. I
was there stupid enough to step on your real professionals toes.

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I beg your pardon...? Time to take that chip off your shoulder,
methinks...

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Joseph_Farrugia said:

Joseph_Farrugia said:

I'm very sorry, I regret it and I won't write there ever again.
Again: I'm sorry. Forgive me.

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What are you talking about? Did I try to slam any post of yours, or
ask you not to write "here" or "there"?

Somebosy else might have done that, but then again, I'm not
somebody else.

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(As noticed, I did clip-clip here and there.)

I'll comment a couple of thing s what it comes to this. Then I leave it.

1. I didn't mean stepping on your toes, I ment professionals "overall". That much irritated the response was.

2. No, you didn't slam my post or nothing else. But, however, you nodded when I was told that there isn't any hope of taking (good) photographs if I don't buy gear with 6k$ at first.

Case closed what it comes to me.

Don,
Do you resize (batch via Windows or ?) to a small size file for your Web site?
Thanks - Jean Ricket

Also gives me a

Don Dement said:

no-work, fast display on my Website for the clients and parents to
make choices. I can look for blown highlights on a satin dress,
too, and fix it onsite.

It's all positive for me - except for some shutter slowness, and
I'm working on beating that one by zone focusing. Good subject to
discuss.

Don D
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PekkaT said:

Joseph_Farrugia said:

PekkaT said:

Oh yes, I think you answered my question on the other forum too. I
was there stupid enough to step on your real professionals toes.

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I beg your pardon...? Time to take that chip off your shoulder,
methinks...

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PekkaT said:

PekkaT said:

I'm very sorry, I regret it and I won't write there ever again.
Again: I'm sorry. Forgive me.

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What are you talking about? Did I try to slam any post of yours, or
ask you not to write "here" or "there"?

Somebosy else might have done that, but then again, I'm not
somebody else.

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(As noticed, I did clip-clip here and there.)

I'll comment a couple of thing s what it comes to this. Then I
leave it.

1. I didn't mean stepping on your toes, I ment professionals
"overall". That much irritated the response was.

2. No, you didn't slam my post or nothing else. But, however, you
nodded when I was told that there isn't any hope of taking (good)
photographs if I don't buy gear with 6k$ at first.

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Nope. Didn't do that. Read again!

PekkaT said:

Case closed what it comes to me.

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Good idea. You were running out of arguments here.

Lets get back to photography... & our beloved Minoltas!

--
JF

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'earthbound or not, he's still a troll.'

In fact...
... if I'm right, Minolta will release DSLR during this year.

I think I wait comments for it and think again...

Pekka

PekkaT said:

Kind of long story short:

How many of you have used Minolta A-2 (or A-1) to shoot weddings?
Opinions?

Thanks in advance,
Pekka

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Yes - really have to. There's no point at all in posting 2 MB files because they're made smaller or pixels ignored in the viewer.

I use ThumbsPlus for an organizer/data base, and it does my batch work with just a few clicks. I tell it to resize to 800x600 and place the new files in a child directory that I call "smaller for Web" and it's done, files stored under the named primary directory. I then tell it to email all these files, and it makes a zipped file. I then ignore the email client that pops up and instead upload that zip file to pbase.com where I can show the images to current and future customers. Least expensive way I know (to also avoid ads that can annoy customers and me). It's a routine now.

If you don't have T+ then use Irfanview, free - does much the same thing. Great program and fast.

Don D
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Jean Ricket said:

Also gives me a

Jean Ricket said:

no-work, fast display on my Website for the clients and parents to
make choices. I can look for blown highlights on a satin dress,
too, and fix it onsite.

It's all positive for me - except for some shutter slowness, and
I'm working on beating that one by zone focusing. Good subject to
discuss.

Don D
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I've found that you can't have the subject too far away or there isn't enough light from the built-in flash to trip the remote flashes. That seems to translate into needing to be within 10-12 ft from my brief experience.

dzeanah said:

+) The wireless flash is WONDERFUL. It's not instant, and seems to
have more lag than the 1/30s my Hasselblads used to have, so might
create some issues with "blinky" brides, but 3 5600 flashes would
ROCK for portable wedding lighting. Really -- don't underestimate
this.

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The manual suggests you be within 5m of the subject, and the flashes also be within 5m of the subject. I think I'd tend to turn the body to point toward the camera with the flash head pointing at the subject anyway though.

Gary Berg said:

dzeanah said:

+) The wireless flash is WONDERFUL. It's not instant, and seems to
have more lag than the 1/30s my Hasselblads used to have, so might
create some issues with "blinky" brides, but 3 5600 flashes would
ROCK for portable wedding lighting. Really -- don't underestimate
this.

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nice shots, regardless of of the fact that they are not technically perfect.

joseph misses the point that these images captures a "moment" that in less

hectic days, these people can sit back an enjoy. It does for me and i wasnt even there.