DPReview reviews the D810... two years after release

[jrista]

My advice to couples is to not hire Nikon shooters who don't bring lighting gear and carry lots of primes.

You really advise couples about which wedding photographer to hire based on brand?

If that's how you want to misread it, then sure.


I advise friends and couples to be married to avoid the "natural light" wedding photographers. Of which, are comprised by about 99% Nikon shooters in my experience. Entry level "pros" ..the types that like to use the term photojournalistic too much, and who deliver too many B&W photos to clients because of the bad color and tone of botched exposures...I have yet to come across a natural light Canon equipped wedding photographer. It isn't the lack of primes, after all, Canon has the 1.2's ...and a very nice 35mm 1.4 II. Maybe it is the lack of an Exmor? Or better yet, they tend to not be the lowest budget entrepreneurs avoiding having to buy lighting or, worse *gasp* ...LEARN to use lighting. I don't see any novices running Canon with a nifty fifty and no lighting trying to shoot weddings. Can't say the same about Nikon...

This is the biggest load of crap I've ever read. And talk about wild stereotyping here. If there was racism for photographers, this is it. Gearism. WOW.

I know several Nikon wedding photographers who do mostly natural light, but are certainly not afraid to use a flash and bounce or even some setup lighting if necessary or if asked. Some people prefer natural lighting to artificial lighting, and I know a wedding photographer who still uses an old 5DC for both natural light and flash in her work.

Anyone who blames the use of black and white conversion on poor color quality of Nikon cameras hasn't used enough Nikon cameras. Their color quality is excellent, and certainly holds up far deeper into the shadows than any Canon camera I've ever used.

This is the kind of wacko illogical fanatical hyper brand-loyalist crap that keeps me off this site.

 

[privatebydesign]

My advice to couples is to not hire Nikon shooters who don't bring lighting gear and carry lots of primes.

You really advise couples about which wedding photographer to hire based on brand?

If that's how you want to misread it, then sure.


I advise friends and couples to be married to avoid the "natural light" wedding photographers. Of which, are comprised by about 99% Nikon shooters in my experience. Entry level "pros" ..the types that like to use the term photojournalistic too much, and who deliver too many B&W photos to clients because of the bad color and tone of botched exposures...I have yet to come across a natural light Canon equipped wedding photographer. It isn't the lack of primes, after all, Canon has the 1.2's ...and a very nice 35mm 1.4 II. Maybe it is the lack of an Exmor? Or better yet, they tend to not be the lowest budget entrepreneurs avoiding having to buy lighting or, worse *gasp* ...LEARN to use lighting. I don't see any novices running Canon with a nifty fifty and no lighting trying to shoot weddings. Can't say the same about Nikon...

Hmm.

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/ambassadors/jeff_ascough/blogs/blog19.do

 

[3kramd5]

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By the time my kids get married, Nikon and Canon will have long gone bankrupt ...

unless they have moved to making hi-rez hi-ISO surveillance cameras which will be so ubiquitous, that you don't need to hire any image makers any longer to get a wedding fully covered on stills and moving images from every possible angle. ;D

Might be true now, only us civilians can't access the footage.

Sure we can, just gotta sneak a USB stick into the Secretary of State's house.