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doing wedding pictures

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March 30, 2001

This should get you started in how to best use the polaroid in the club. You should be able to use your DC215 for some of this too, depending on how you want to use the digital images.

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Your question sounds like you want to use the DC215 Zoom for professional wedding, magazine photojournalism, and album cover work. Not certain your DC215 will work that well if you intend to make and sell professional photographs with it for other than web use. This is strictly my opinion: it doesn't have enough resolution for making the very high quality prints required for the pro wedding, studio and on-location work you describe. Kodak states it can produce 5x7's. I think this is a stretch; they'd be about 150 dpi. About 200 dpi is at the edge of what the human eye can detect, and this would be a 4x6 print at the highest possible resolution a DC215 can deliver.

If you're interested in doing wedding, studio and on-location professional work, there are a variety of good books on these topics in most large libraries. You'll find it requires specialized lighting techniques and equipment. Some of this can be done with top end 35mm gear, excellent lenses and the right films. However, many pros also use medium format cameras for at least some of these kinds of photographs. The usable area of medium format film is about three times that of 35mm film taking potential image quality to another level well beyond what any digital (or 35mm camera) can do.

-- John

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March 31, 2001