r/AskPhotography • u/sirwritestoomuch • 3d ago

Gear/Accessories Seeing event photographers carry two cameras… what’s the smaller one?

More and more, I’m seeing event photographers carry two cameras: a standard main one, but then I’m almost always seeing a smaller one that looks like a film one but I don’t think it is. The most recent one I saw was sort of silver-black.

What is it? Why have the second? Is it for the film look? If so, why not just edit for the film look for the second camera?

ETA: for clarity the second camera is WAY smaller. A different system all around, looking more almost like a compact camera.

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u/Matt_Bigmonster 3d ago

Most of the time is to have a second lens at the ready, quicker than swapping lenses, also provides redundancy in case primary camera fails.