Fuji Digital vs NIKON

[hummingbird]

A couple asked my husband to photograph their wedding last saturday. I offered to let my husband take my digital along with him just for luck. He said that people pay professional photographers because they have professional equipment. What the h***. Do any of you think that too? And why is it impossible to do weddings wtih digital cameras? To me it's the person behind the camera that makes the difference not the equipment.

Well after the wedding he asks me to photoshop a few of the pictures for him. Well I said. "What happened to that NIKON that is so great of yours."

Why is it that some people are so stuck oh their 35 mm and won't consider a digital camera not a toy? I sure paid a lot for my "toy".

[Vallie]

DSLRs are what the pros use these days. I thought most wedding photographers used digital now, my sons fiancee's parents are pro photographers and have all Nikon DSLRs. I guess there would be some using large format cameras too.

[jamie]

There are lots of professional photographers that refuse to believe they can get the same quality from digital, I'm not sure why, but I've read a few articles on the subject (just didn't retain much from them lol)

I can tell you that there is a HUGE difference between regular digital cameras and DSLRs, however. Especially since you can control the settings more on a DSLR. :-)

[Emma]

hmmm, I haven't been to a wedding in awhile where the photographer wasn't digital (except one where a guest who was also a pro remarked, "She's using FILM!" and rolled her eyes a little).

Definite pros and cons, but most of the pros are using digital now! In fact, the Fuji is called the "wedding photgrapher" camera because it has the best in-camera filters so the straight-from-camera shots need a lot less retouching. Great for doing a lot of shots!

[diturpin]

First, let me say I"m not a pro, but I was at a wedding Saturday where the photographer used digital...and two big huge umbrellas with remotely synced flash that went off all throughout the ceremony...to me, that was a tad bit too much. I know I'm probably old school, but it was very distracting to me. I love technology, but learning to take a good picture in ambient lighting (digital or film) would have really added to this girls bag of tricks.

[cherebus]

My husband is a wedding photographer and he's been using digital 4 years now. It's much easier on his workflow and also less expensive for our costs on every wedding he shoots. Most of the top wedding photographers shoot almost exclusively digital.

He started shooting digital with a Fuji S-2 because he was able to use all his nikon lenses from his film cameras. He now uses a Nikon D-200. I got his Nikon D-70 as a hand me down. At this point I can say I don't really miss film.

[hummingbird]

So you can relate to my story. I even get more disturbed when my mother went out and bought herself a good digital camer. Now she just takes her disc down to the store to get prints. Her pictures never see her computer! I though this had alreayd been decided on. But there are those that are still staying in the dark ages. My mom's a great photographer, she's won several photo contests over the years.

[Lauren]

Well I can also relate to your mother in a way - although I dont get my prints printed - I really do wish I would get around to printing out more of mine - Ive even been tempted to pick up one of those 6x4 printers so that I will make myself print some just to put in a regular old sleeve photo album - I know call me weird but I love my scrapbooks - and then I also love to look through my heaps of albums of 6x4s - many of which I will never scrap - but I can share easily with the older generation of relative.

[hummingbird]

I know what you mean. I have one of the best Scrapbooking store close by. I have found the cutest 6 X 6 and 8 X 8 scrapbooks. I put them on my coffee table. I have one with photos from around this state (Arizona) and the other of our famiy over the years. Those sizes are easy for me to print on my HP all-in-one machine. I know it's not really one of the best photo printer, but I do get great prints from it. I love the nice leather ones with the ancient looking clasps on it. It just fits my decor.

[Karen]

A couple asked my husband to photograph their wedding last saturday. I offered to let my husband take my digital along with him just for luck. He said that people pay professional photographers because they have professional equipment. What the h***. Do any of you think that too? And why is it impossible to do weddings wtih digital cameras? To me it's the person behind the camera that makes the difference not the equipment.

Well after the wedding he asks me to photoshop a few of the pictures for him. Well I said. "What happened to that NIKON that is so great of yours."

Why is it that some people are so stuck oh their 35 mm and won't consider a digital camera not a toy? I sure paid a lot for my "toy".


LOL I think that to find prophotographers that are still using film is a rarity now
most of the top pros are digital.
I shoot weddings and have been all digital for quite a number of years and you're right its not so much the gear as the person behind it :)

[Karen]

First, let me say I"m not a pro, but I was at a wedding Saturday where the photographer used digital...and two big huge umbrellas with remotely synced flash that went off all throughout the ceremony...to me, that was a tad bit too much. I know I'm probably old school, but it was very distracting to me. I love technology, but learning to take a good picture in ambient lighting (digital or film) would have really added to this girls bag of tricks.

Have to disagree with you here :) Using the lighting would have been done wether the photographer was film or digital, I also think that there is a time and place for ambient light photos and maybe at something as important as a wedding ceremony she was making sure all her subjects were well lit, ambient light is good if you can control the setting but with something like a wedding you work according to the miniter, couple and the surroundings :) mind you I don't cart my studio lights to wedding ceremonies but I do use diffused flash :)

[Jennifer]

Film is still better in some respects, and for weddings it just still might be (but on such a small margin it's just makes more sense to go digital.) Emma, the Fuji is considered the 'wedding camera' because the dynamic range (from black to white) is better on the Fuji. It's very difficult to learn to finesse your digital camera to expose for skin and not blow out the white wedding dress. Fuji handles this remarkably well. Film has a larger latitude for error than digital and doesn't crap out on white like digital does/can.

All that being said, anyone who snarks at a digital wedding photographer is just plain uninformed and silly. I'd venture to say that probably digital out numbers film today with 75%+ being digital. This is all just my personal opinion here so take it as such :)