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HP Photosmart 850 I'm considering purchasing the HP Photosmart 850 Digital Camera. Would this camera be worth purchasing for wedding photography? Thank you very much your help.
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Maynard McKillen |
Dear Carol: Many digital cameras that do not allow you to physically remove and replace the lens behave in a similar, perhaps undesirable way. Where you push down the shutter button to take the photo, there is a noticeable delay before the shutter actually activates. You may want to find out if the HP 850, which seems to have reflex viewing (You see the subject through the same lens system that takes the photo, instead of looking through a separate, adjacent viewfinder.), suffers from this same problem of delayed shutter release. The consequence of delayed shutter release is that you press the shutter button at the moment of peak action or peak expression, but that moment has already passed by the time the shutter opens. Often wedding photographers like to supplement ambient light with flash. The HP 850's built-in flash may work fine for small groups, but may not be strong enough to work well for large ones. Then, too, wedding photographers frequently work with several flash units at once. "Slave units", flashes that fire by connecting a sensor to them that detects the bright burst from the camera flash, will not work with the built-in flash on the camera. I've tried. The slave flashes will fire, but not soon enough after the camera flash, and not before the camera's shutter closes. Hence the burst of light from the slave flash will not influence the image. Even rigging a slave triggered by a radio-frequency transmitter/receiver system will suffer this similar fault. The HP 850 may work quite well as the "second" camera you use for those candid photos that lend depth to the range of emotions you capture on the wedding day, but may not work as well when used as the primary image capture device. A digital SLR, not prone to delayed shutter release, and capable of triggering slave units in a timely manner, may be the better "first" camera.
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Maynard McKillen |
And another thing! The HP 850 is powered by 4 "AA" batteries, and it can drain them fast! You'd plan to keep several sets of rechargeable NiMH "AA" batteries handy for a long day of wedding photos.
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