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[Sean Setters]

There were benefits to the move, though. I have a brand new (and much larger) studio to work with. :-)

[Kayaker72]

Mike, any impressions or pictures from your trip to Glacier?

So after using the 5DSR I found myself digi zooming quite a bit. If the 24-35 is sharp enough for this I would see a wedding person getting the 24-50 effective range perhaps have to push the stop a bit but, with a tiny bit of fill/ambient flash.....

I suspect this already happens with 18/22 MP cameras, so the ability would only be enhanced with a 50 MP body. In fact, this is one of the most tempting aspects of the 5DsR to me. It could essentially combine the benefits (reach) of a crop sensor, sacrificing fps, with the noise performance of a FF sensor.

But, as for actual pro wedding photographers, I would see this doing two things, first, the memory/transfer time for 2,000-4,000 shot events would be pretty significant. The second, I would expect Pros, especially on low margin work, to be about saving time (as time = $$). So, cropping a larger number of photos would be adding a good amount of time to post. The benefit of the zoom is hopefully they'd actually crop less than, say, if they just used a 24 mm prime. But they could still crop to give a FOV of 50 or 70 mm. In the link to the wedding pro earlier, he was using the 24-35 f/2 on a 5Ds R and a 100 mm L macro on a 5DIII. I can see that being a very useful combination for a wedding.

BTW, I saw yesterday Bryan posted his initial IQ of the 24-35 mm f/2 A. Not on the 5Ds R (yet??), but scrolling through those are very consistent with what I saw in other reviews. It looks like an interesting option. Not sure it will ever fall into my bag, but I can understand why it would for others.

It might. Then again, all of that would require significant effort (selling used gear) and shelling out the up-front costs for the new gear. I just moved from my boyhood home to a new place, and my bank account is feeling the effects of the move (the moving van cost twice as much as we were originally quoted because of unavailability at a specific retailer and other various moving-in expenses have exceeded my estimates).

As such, right now my gear is what it is. I'm not changing anything for the time being. :-)

Ouch....what's the saying, anything with a house, 4x longer and 2x more expensive than you think?

There were benefits to the move, though. I have a brand new (and much larger) studio to work with. :-)

See, all worth it.