Attached is a link to the pod cast my Mark Wallace who is currently traveling the world doing pod casts for Adorama Learning Center. 3 reasons why he switched to the Leica Rangefinder M10 from his Canon 5DM3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKnPTLxBXI

Hi Sandra. Mark Wallace does Pod Casts on Adorama.com website. This particular 12 minute session was called "Why I switched from a DSLR to a Rangefinder" and was done on January 7th, 2015. Mark is an accomplished phtographer from Phoenix and decided last year to "take a few years to photograph the world". He is currently down in South America. I will try to find the link but checkout Adorama Learning Center for all their videos pod casts as they are great. I have leaned a lot form the team there. :thumbup:

Mark Wallace (Adorama TV) is currently traveling the world and has a recent segment on why he is now using a Leica M ve his 5d3. Weight, size, and not getting mugged. Three good reasons. Check out his video.

Make that the 70-200 2.8.....

The 80-200 2.8 is a good choice. The range keeps you out of the action which is helpful as it is in the first dance at a wedding reception. If you have a flash, have it on TTL and bounce some additional light into the inside shots.

Disregard those that have nothing more productive to do than criticize. If they don't like the question, they can always move to the next. Best of luck to you and have fun!

Love it!

It is your fabulous use of light that made the shot. Well done!

Beautiful shots! Thanks for sharing them!

Amazing Pic Mike! Another world lives inside a macro lens! Absolutely beautiful!

Another fun setting I found on my Nikon D600 was the "Color Outline" in the retouch menu. Below is a shot from a balcony in Nice. The affects the camera provides are amazing.

Another fun setting

The "color sketch" option is found on the Nikon "Retouch Menu" on the second page. After you take a picture, Raw or JPEG, you just go into the retouch menu and hit "color sketch". The original pic is kept and the camera just duplicates the pic in the sketch format. It works best with shots with a lot of color variety.

If you really want to get creative, the option above that one says "color outline" which looks like a ink drawing.

Attached is another of small, colorful fishing boats in the Port of Nice.

I was in Ville Franche in the south of France last fall and discovered the "sketch" setting on my Nikon D600. I took the below shot on the coast and then converted it in camera to a sketch format. I was amazed at the affect. Has anyone else tried out this in camera rendering setting?

Ville Franche

I also found having a heavy DSLR having on my neck to be a pain. (Pun intened). I switched to a Black Rapid strap 3 years ago and love it. When I shoot events, I use the dual stop set up so to have my 24-70 and 70-200 at my side ready to get the shot.

I shoot weddings and find that auto ISO will give me a lower ISO than if I set manually. With aperture priority, no auto ISO, the camera will can move to a low shutter speed when conditions are changing quickly. Camera shake. With Auto ISO, you set the minimum acceptable shutter speed and maximum ISO. The camera will then ONLY raise the ISO off of 100, if the minimum shutter speed will not give a correct exposure. In this manner, I leave the ISO at 100 and let the camera raise as necessary. No camera shake and the lowest possible ISO on each shot.

Manual with auto ISO work well also but I would rather have my camera raise the shutter speed as needed as things brighten up. If you are already at 100 ISO in manual, you will over expose if you don't catch it in the view finder and raise your aperture or shutter speed.
Inside with flash? All manual.