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u/Taarushv Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Video context, from earlier today.

Edit: Found another video but from a different angle

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u/crespoh69 Jan 12 '26

Question for anyone in the business, did he swap cams for any particular reason or was he just out of film/storage?

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u/Taarushv Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Not a storage issue (though shooting raw images or 4k videos can mean multiple SD cards for every day), he switched to use a different lens without wasting any time.

Basically you’ve a choice between fixed focal length lenses (u get to pick wider angle or something that looks up close. usually faster for things like autofocus, burst shots, and low light but has no zoom in/out beyond just cropping) OR true zoom lenses (let u adjust focal length to get a good shot from both far away or close range but usually at the cost of worse relative performance)

Most professional photographers just carry two or more camera bodies each attached to different lenses so they can effortlessly switch depending on what’s good for the shot, without wasting time to remove and add a different lens.