Q1. I’m dying to know the logistics of bringing in gear to a wedding. I have my first shoot next month. Do you take everything in with the Nova 200 and then transfer applicable lenses to the shoot sac? How do you keep gear from getting in the shot? What do you carry monopods and sliders in?
most of our shoots require air travel and for that we often pack our cameras and lenses into a hard pelican case (like the one shown in this iphone photo) so it is protected during transit; monopods and sliders travel in either a tripod bad or in our suitcase on flights. on the wedding day we have lenses in our shootsac, our camera with one lens on the monopod and any other camera support nearby as needed. depending on the nature of the shoot we may bring a slider into the room and leave it tucked away in a corner so it’s easily accessible but not an eye sore. tripods and steadicams are always left in the car (unpacked and ready to go) until needed so we are not slowed down by lugging around extra gear. that also means we are keeping as small a footprint as possible so that people don’t feel like it’s a production.
Q2. I currently have the 5D II, 7D, Mark IV and FS100. I was looking at purchasing the C300, and selling the FS100/7D, but it is still very expensive for what it is. We are doing more corporate work this year, but its all web based, and while I am hoping to branch more into commercial, I’m not sure if its worth going for something like C300 now or stick with the DSLRS. I read your review on the 5D Mark III, and I was curious on your thoughts on switching to that. For me, less moire would be so helpful. If you have time, I would love to hear your thoughts!
if you are looking to get more into commercial work i would ALWAYS have a non-DSLR option. there can be a ton of value for having high quality audio on board, more robust codecs, more monitoring options to get every shot perfect and so on. many like the look of DSLRs but…
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