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SLR Camera advice needed.

  • 23-03-2009 11:39pm
    #1
    Sammag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭


    Hi, hoping for a bit of advice...

    I need to buy my first Digital SLR camera.

    Apart from a good all-rounder, I am looking for something which will serve very well in particular for someone who is hoping to get involved in professional product and food photography.
    I am starting an intensive course in this area in 2 months and I need a camera.

    Budget is pretty much open-ended at the mo.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Sammag wrote: »
    Hi, hoping for a bit of advice...

    I need to buy my first Digital SLR camera.

    Apart from a good all-rounder, I am looking for something which will serve very well in particular for someone who is hoping to get involved in professional product and food photography.
    I am starting an intensive course in this area in 2 months and I need a camera.

    Budget is pretty much open-ended at the mo.

    Cheers

    any dslr should be grand... its the lens you need to focus on at the end of the day when getting specific... budget?


  • #3
    Sammag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Sammag


    melekalikimaka wrote: »
    any dslr should be grand... its the lens you need to focus on at the end of the day when getting specific... budget?

    Thanks, once I get the camera, I'd like to experiment a bit with some ideas I have before I start this course. I am a total newbie to the photography side of this business so know little or nothing about additional lens attachments I could use - all that learning is ahead of me etc. My career strengths to-date are in the design/styling side of things. (I wish now I'd only listened more in my Photography class in my design degree 11 years ago :()

    I love this guys style of photography, esp. the food photos: http://www.conpoulos.com/home.php
    I understand a lot of what makes a 'decent food shot' is all in the lighting, photo technique and styling etc.., but would additional lenses help me achieve this sort of look and feel easier?


  • #4
    bmcgrath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭bmcgrath


    Canon, Nikon are the big ones.

    Pentax, Sony, Olympus etc are pretty decent too. Have a search of the forums as there is plenty of information on here. :)


  • #5
    shawnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    I have being doing quite a lot of reserarch into buying an slr recently. I had a minolta one but not digital. The advice given to me by quite a number of photographers is that if I buy Nikon go for at least d80 or d90 if I can afford same. :p Also make sure that you are getting a decent lens.


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