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We are excited to announce our first ever photo walk. We will be meeting in City Park in Appleton at 10:00 am. We have a couple of interesting locations to shoot at. One of the things we are most excited about is the sharing of knowledge. So even if you don’t know anything about photography you should be there. Camera brands don’t matter. We hope this will be the first of many photo walks.

We currently have 3 Sony Z7 cameras, which shoot in HD and SD.  They record to Compact Flash cards, as well as tape.  We have been recording to the cards as well as the tape.  We find that the tapes offer us an easy backup solution.  We rarely have to go back and use anything from the tapes, but it is nice to know they are filed away.  Once the files are copied from the cards, the cards are re-formatted, so it can be a bit scary if you don’t have some kind of backup of the files.  We do copy the files to 2 different hard drives though.  The cameras have been awesome for us.  We did have to learn to shoot everything in the manual mode and that took some time.  They are also a bit heavier than our old cameras and bigger.  Very solid cameras.

We also have a Canon 5d Mark II DSLR camera.  We use this camera to get the pre ceremony, some of the exterior, pre reception and some of the dancing at the reception.  It is a very exciting camera to use and mixes very well with our Z7′s.  This camera takes beautiful video as well as 21 megapixel still photographs.  I wish we could use this camera for everything, but at this time it is just used for some of the special shots.