Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would agree 100% with Mark on this. I shoot a lot of weddings and always used to shoot square and the lab would crop to oblong for whatever you wanted, you shot with that in mind. In those days the camera was on a tripod and (in the UK) you shot around 95% formals. The tripod gave you a status and people knew who you were and what you were there for. Today the market has turned on its head and I have been faced with people who video the wedding on their mobile phones. Everybody has a camera that sits in their handbag/pocket and sales of prints to guests has dropped right off. Today the approach is far less formal with the return of b&w reportage, all of which is ideally suited to the digital cameras with most digital SLRs capable of producing any print you may want. Whilst full frame is good for many reasons, one of them is not that it shoots better wedding shots because it simply is not needed. Gerry On 25/09/2007, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Funny, used to shoot FF all the time with film for weddings. Are you > > saying > > switching to APS format would have been an upgrade? > > > > Chris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Rabiner" > > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Nikon D3 wedding photographer tests > > > > > >> This full frame stuff for weddings is all about what people think they > >> need > >> to keep up with the Jones from what they hear on the internet. > >> The blind leading the blind. > >> Lemmings in Audis. > >> Very much the wedding mentality of the past couple of decades. > >> > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> rabinergroup.com > > > > My output was 8x10's mainly black and white. > A half frame camera can make ok 8x10's I could have used my Pen Ft. > > But the Hassy camera with its interchangeable backs and the square formant > just seems to work well for such stuff. It was overkill but it was handing > and had authority. > And people felt comfortable around it in such situations. > Those days it was THE wedding camera and I think for good reason. > > I used to shoot them with Nikons and just use the Hassy for the formal > shots. > But I found that just to use them for everything was the way to go for me. > > > I see Dennis Reggie thought of as the numero uno wedding guy who used the > square format in the film era uses a 1.3 crop EOS-1D now. > There's no need for full frame digital for a wedding. > > Mark William Rabiner > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Gerry Walden LRPS Web: www.gwpics.com Stock: www.stockuk.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 3076 Skype: gerry.walden (uk)