karinaandjelic

Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful answers. They have provided me with lots of great information and food for thought. I have fibromyalgia which sometimes makes it hard for me to use my hands (not the best in our profession). It's fine - I work around it, and just make sure I am rested before a shoot, but it does mean that I don't use my real gear as much as I would like when I'm off duty (I do have guilt for not using it more with my own kids when I use all the gear for other people's kids), but I would also rather be present with them, and just use the gear occasionally. There's some great options and suggestions above. I shall enjoy looking through them. Thank you so much and have a great rest of your week / weekend all! Karina :-)

Hi there, I haven't been on here for about a decade (life got super busy with kids, and had to put all my photography energy into shooting and my photography business - no time for the web sadly). I missed it. A quick question. What is your light weight go to photography option for when you are wrangling kids or on the run? I love my 5D Mark 1V, but I can't carry it in my handbag to have on hand when I am wrangling my three kids, or put it in my back pocket to use on the run. I bought an iPhone 12 Pro for this purpose, but sadly had it stolen last night, and probably won't get it back (yes find my iPhone worked briefly but police couldn't find it). So now I have to work out whether to buy another 12 Pro (whilst I pay off the other one for three years - eek), or just use an old phone and get a compact mirrorless or good quality point and shoot. What do you use for this purpose - a phone, mirrorless or point and shoot? Obviously as pros we want quality and especially great handling of low light... But also I need something small and portable. Will an actual camera be as handy as a phone? Am I going to use it as much? Will it perhaps be a good chance to stop taking photos on my phone and use something small but more professional? Or is this just not workable for the purpose... Interested in your thoughts, experiences and choices. Thanks for having me back!