Best Camera for professional Photography

balloo_2

A debate has arisen with a few of my friends as to what is the best and reasonably priced Camera for Wedding and Canvas printing. The printer for the canvas is going to be Fuji we think. Can anyone give advice please. :beer:

Trinitrotoluene

Canon 1d. Depends on price range and lenses

lucylucky

Had a play with the Nikon D300s the other week and it is a very nice camera.

I am a fan of both Nikon and Canon but all depends on your budget and what you want lens wise (as mentioned above)

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Choose between Nikon and Canon.. then figure out which model matches your budget. Make sure you budget for flashes, lenses, spare body, spare batteries ect...

Links to camera pricing : http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/

I don't think I'd start doing wedding photography without at least a 2K budget for equipment.

Chimpofdoom

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Choose between Nikon and Canon.. then figure out which model matches your budget. Make sure you budget for flashes, lenses, spare body, spare batteries ect...

Links to camera pricing : http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/

I don't think I'd start doing wedding photography without at least a 2K budget for equipment.

Indeed, my gf's brother-in-law just spend £2.5k on camera gear recently. He's still learning, shadowing other photographers (he doesn't get paid for this) and occasionally getting work, whilst working full time at his normal job (until his photography business really takes off).

Lot of work, but it can be rewarding...

totalsolutions

Running along the lines of Canon and Nikon. And Photoshop CS5

pulliptears

Canon everytime, and as total says Photoshop CS5 is a must.

moonrakerz

As soon as you start charging people ........... don't forget the most important thing of all - insurance ! For you, your car, your house, your equipment, etc, etc, etc

hc25036

I'm a keen amateur and wouldn't 'do' a wedding for anything due to the potential fall outs! However, I do talk and think a lot about kit. To do the best possible job, it will come down to Canon or Nikon as others have said. Look for the best camera/lenses in your budget that will be 'fast' enough deal with low-light situations (ie max aperture on the lens as large as possible and low noise at high ISO on the bodies). Think what lenses you will need - a couple of zooms may look like enough, but in the church for instance a wideish prime lens at f2.8 or less could be invaluable. The kit should also be weatherproof at least - not all weddings are held in glorious sunshine!

Remember to budget for at least 2 bodies so that you can have access to two different lenses all the time, powerful flashgun(s) with good battery packs, extra batteries for the cameras, plenty of storage cards, lens hoods, tough bags. You'll also need backups in case kit fails on the day or is off for repair.

If it was me, I'd be thinking as a minimum Canon 5D (or two) and a 40D as backup with a 70-200 f2.8, 24-104 f4 (or 17-55 f2.8 EFS), 50mm f1.4, 28mm or 35mm f1.4 and a couple of Speedlight 580s with an external battery pack and at least 4 batteries for each camera and a dozen assorted CF cards. Oh - and some good professional indemnity insurance.....

1984ReturnsForReal_2

I dont think you can brand this one.

It depends on the model & the lens.....

Lirin

When I do weddings, I usually have two 5d's, a good film camera (my T90 cant be beaten!), and a varied choice of lenses- usualy 17-40, 70-200, fixed 50mm prime, maybe a couple of others for the T90. I do have an MPE-65, but that's detailed dedicated macro- good for very nice detail shots of the rings, decoration etc if I get a chance.
I always have two charged sets of batteries, spare AA's as reserve for the camera, and some for the flash. Use only one flash as I'm not a huge fan of flash for wedding photography, but some situations demand it.

Plenty of memory cards, etc as well.

I test the cameras prior to every wedding, and give them a clean down. Personally, by what I use now, 2.k is not much to budget with... however, I did my first wedding for free, and for use of their photos as advertising, with a £45 replica of a Ricoh KR2. It can be done, and I'd recommend being upfront with the first couple you shoot- they can be fairly understanding when you're starting.

Plenty of cameras are available second-hand, so that's worth lookig at. Just fully test before you buy- 2nd lenses can often have front element problems from taking a hard knock, and cameras can be compromised with no sign of obvious damage, so do test!