> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:10:48 -0400 > From: "Frank Knapik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: *ist D or DS & AF500FTZ for Weddings? > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello. I recently got into digital photography. I bought an Olympus C-8080. > Great camera, but the EVF would not work for me to shoot people events such > as weddings. Until I purchased this camera I have always used Pentax > equipment. PZ-1p, LX, MX,AF500FTZ,AF280,AF 50/1.4,Af28-105(pz),A24/2.8 and > more. I have to turn down "digital" wedding requests because I do not have a > digital camera that I could comfortably use for weddings. So the question I > have is, does anyone have any wedding experience using an *istD or DS with > the above flashes and lenses. I do realize I will need a wider lens. Any > digital specific zoom recommendations? Thanks. > > Francis >
Francis, I guess you will receive response from several people who are experts in wedding photography with the digital SLR. I was faced with the necessity to shoot a wedding of my relative just 2 months ago. I was using *ist DS that was purchased shortly before that with AF500FTZ and all the lenses that I had and used before with ZX5n. So, here are my impressions, regrets, etc. 1. I was struggling with burned areas coming from bride's white dress and white shirts of the groom and other men. As they wanted to have some photos taken at the sea shore and it was a bright day, some burned areas came from the sky. This was for the shots where people were under a shed. I admit, I haven't had too much experience with this type of shots (although I had some). However, there was something in the combination of DS and AF500FTZ that was not behaving the way I wanted it to behave. I am not sure if it was entirely my fault or indeed, a) this flash does not work as well with the DS as it does with ZX5n as a fill-in flash; b) the sensitivity dynamic range of the digital sensor is not as wide that of the film. Again, it might have been my inexperience with the DS. I should note, that a digital Elph used at the same time by my wife did a much better job with respect to the exposure, while being set to a forced (fill-in) flash. 2. With respect to lenses - because of the 1.5 crop factor, you have adjust your practice and habbits. Bill Robb warned me about this, specifically for the wide end, but I had to adjust much more in the focal range of 70-120, as I had 28-70 and 70-300 zooms, and the boundary between the two effectively shifted from where I used to find it. Luckily, I had a second body, - so that I could avoid too much of lens switching. 3. RAW was my savior! Raw pluging for Photoshop CS2 is also very handy for streamlining the conversion and adjustments. Even despite the slowness (on startup) of the Adobe Bridge. I hope this would be somewhat helpful. Igor
