Most people see someone wearing an expensive SLR camera at weddings and immediately struck by a sense of awe and respect, getting out of their way to let them take pictures of everything they wanted. SLR cameras have a distinctive look, large barrel, the popup flash. They look like they mean business, as opposed to a slim point and shoot cameras that are designed to fit as much capacity as possible in your pocket.
and I own SLR and point and shoot. Personally, I find that a good enough point and shoot camera, the knowledge of how to use manual settings is what we really need to produce a picture as good as one taken with a SLR. In some cases, even a photo can turn out better, because my point and shoot auto-focus and anti-shake technology is built in a limited ability to change the shutter speed and aperture manually, and even helps, because it refuses to allow me to use the settings that will create too dim or too bright images.
Together, this means that you can focus on creating the best framework and composition of each image, without worrying about whether it will turn out blurry, too dark or too bright. With my SLR, I find myself taking the same picture over and over, adjusting settings every time minutely. Of course, given enough time and a tripod, say a landscape scene can be adjusted until it produces absolutely beautiful pictures. However, in a wedding, where every moment is special and occurs only for a moment, I simply can not afford the time to adjust your settings between each shot. It is a balance between letting the camera in one setting and hope it works for every shot I take, and risking to miss something important as I adjust the shutter speed and aperture. With a point and shoot camera, let the camera worry about the default setting, believing that to adjust the light for me, and focus on capturing the event on the best part of what I can.
In addition, I would believe that most brides would care more about the photographer catching the absolute joy on their faces as they say "yes ", but rather about how exactly the balance of light in the background, while not completely wrong. point and shoot cameras can not guarantee that my background will always look good.
So why do so many camera companies to sell the idea that the SLR is better than point and shoot? In that case, why I own both? Well, as I said, when taking photos of things that are not going to change significantly over the next 5 minutes, such as flowers or even models of the photoshoot, I can spend time fiddling with the settings and produce a National Geographic-worthy photos. It is also much better when I want to take artistic shots, or play with the focal length and perspective, because I can force the camera settings, point and shoot will never allow it, creating all kinds of interesting and unusual pictures. Every once in awhile one of these photos will be beautiful and artistic. But in the case where every moment is different, but important, I prefer to use my point and shoot for the reasons I stated above.
The camera companies are not entirely wrong to say SLR is better than point and shoot. SLR has the potential to produce amazing picture quality, perspective and skill to point and shoot just to be able to emulate. But that is all that is potential. What it comes down to the photographer's ability to maximize the ability of his camera. In the hands of someone who knows exactly what settings to use for every shot, every possible scenario, every possible balance of light and shadow, point and shoot can produce better pictures than I can, stumbling around with my SLR.
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