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My experience of doing this a while ago (too many to count, not enough to claim a business) you want equipment you can happily carry for 10 hours.
Depends on the service setup if you can photograph during proceedings. For them you want zoom and stabilisation. You need to be out the way.
For the big group shots, yes, the bigger camera says something but the image quality is more important.
Forget the prime 50, you won’t have time to mess about changing unless you use it specifically and then swap. If you had a wide then that would be swapped on before the group work.
Realistically, carry the small camera and use it for all the candid milling about work. Keep the 6D or whatever for the formal work. Dump the 6D in the bag as soon as you have group work out the way and be a pap with the small one while you’re expected to be some kind of fly on the wall for the next 8 hours.
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I've got to shoot a wedding for friends next month. I'm not a professional photographer nor are they paying me a professional photographers fee so whilst I'm guessing that they aren't expecting premium images, id still like to do a good job. I've got a canon 6d with the 24-105 L and a 50mm 1.4. the 50mm is a bit soft and misses on autofocus quite a lot. It's a bit of a dud one as I've had the same lens before which was sharp and spot on.
I've also got a Fuji XT20 with the 27mm pancake and a small zoom lens, I forget which one. They like the filmy images I've taken with this.
My thinking is that the Fuji is a little small, whether or not it's fine for the job, big camera says "listen to my direction, I know what I'm doing" and the bigger files and low light performance of the canon would be better.
I'll take both but wondering what equipment I could need to do a better job. Thinking of maybe trying to get another 50 1.4 and hoping it's a better example or maybe a longer prime. Would I be better off just getting a prime for the fuji and doing the whole thing a bit more incognito? I'll also pick up a flash for the Fuji for the evening do I think