My advice to a friend who is scheduled to shoot her first wedding in June 2013...

[bentcountershaft]

My wedding was shot with a D2Hs. He probably would have killed to have D7000 back then.

 

[jwbryson1]

Okay, then it seems a DX body will work. Besides the 2 bodies and several lenses, do the wedding pros always bring soft boxes, umbrellas, etc, or something else to shoot groups?

 

[amolitor]

Heck, I'm not crazy, I don't shoot weddings For all I know the shallow DoF available on an FX body is critical for some specific set of shots that every bride wants these days.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Okay, then it seems a DX body will work. Besides the 2 bodies and several lenses, do the wedding pros always bring soft boxes, umbrellas, etc, or something else to shoot groups?

I would consider that a must. Maybe not a lot of it, but yeah, they need to have something that will evenly light ten or twelve people I would think.

 

[pixmedic]

I'm gonna stick with the lawyer's interpretation on this one

Smart choice.

Your strong advocacy of an FX body struck me as odd, though. Is this actually part of the TPF zeitgeist on wedding photography? If so, why? Not start a big argument, but if someone has a short bullet list on that specific point, I'd like to see it.

Not at all. That's why I posted my response and made clear that I'm not a pro. If you think a DX body like the D7000 or D7100 would suffice, then I'm all ears. I just know most of the people I know who shoot full-time use an FX body, and I hear on this forum that FX is the best because of the ISO performance.

just because you use a DX camera, doesnt mean you need to jack the ISO up. to combat low light at weddings, we use..
fast glass. f/2.8 zooms, and primes in a wide range of lengths.
flashes. a bunch of them wherever and whenever we can. on camera and off camera.
shoot raw. just for the little bit of extra help.

even our old D200 makes a perfectly fine wedding and portrait camera when used properly.
ideally? yea. a D600, 700, or 800 would be wonderful. eventually we will probably migrate over to FF, but I dont see it as "necessary".

 

[pixmedic]

Okay, then it seems a DX body will work. Besides the 2 bodies and several lenses, do the wedding pros always bring soft boxes, umbrellas, etc, or something else to shoot groups?

yes! we bring multiple flashes all with stands and umbrellas/softboxes.

 

[jwbryson1]

Is there a thread on here comparing the D7000 to the D600? My search function does not work very well...

 

[bentcountershaft]

Also consider that I'm just as medicated now as I was earlier when I mixed my words up. In fact I'm due for a dose in fifteen minutes or so if I'm going to chime in on anything important, the sooner the better.

 

[Rwsphotos]

Tri pod, extra batteries a must as well ad your battery charger better safe than sorry. If I listed every thing I carry fir a wedding you friend may have a heartattack. Lol

 

[snowbear]

Is there a thread on here comparing the D7000 to the D600? My search function does not work very well...

If you can't find a thread, try this site for side-by-side specs: Side-by-side camera comparison: Digital Photography Review