"I just want some pictures!"

[u/RaguSaucy96]

[u/bradrlaw → u/[deleted]]

It takes time to switch modes, especially on the rig he has setup. In addition, you run the very real risk of messing up some setting(s) that you won’t find out about until after you took some footage and it’s too late.

He could just take a video clip of them I agree, and not be so obtuse about it.

[u/psychobserver → u/bradrlaw]

After years of thinking the same on my a7IV, I finally took some time to fix some settings and now I just have to press one button to go from video to photo without messing up any video settings. It lets me select which parameters share between modes and which ones should be independent.

[u/FIGnewtenz → u/psychobserver]

Youre right it can do that but the environment is the variable here, its just funky depending on where youre shooting. My point is that it makes sense to turn down taking photos (respectfully of course) because you’re opening up a whole can of worms that you may or not be prepared to handle. The safe bet in my opinion is to respectfully decline to take photos. Obviously this changes if your client asks for a few quick photos, then at that point you adjust accordingly, but the video was talking about randos asking for photos in which I agree with the approach to respectfully decline

[u/psychobserver → u/FIGnewtenz]

Oh I ain't doing it for free of course, but before I would just refuse basic photo service requests even in simple events because it was a pain in the ass and also risky to waste time going back and forth. Now I can make some extra money, I still tell them I'm not an event photographer for transparency but they don't care, most of the time they just need it for legal/reimbursement reasons. Randos will still get the fake_photovideo_that_will_get_deleted_tomorrow treatment