PrintFood Photo Gear: Name Your Poison
If you take food photos, what gear do you use? What's your dream gear, if you have any?
My wife and kids gave me a Canon A560 for Father's Day. At less than $200, the thing has a decent macro function and great color. It's finally enabled me to get pics such as this one:
http://frogleg.mvps.org/images/lunapiercook/teq_lime_chckn.jpg
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9 Comments:
I usually use an old Sony DSC-W5. It has a pretty nice macro mode, but not a lot of control over depth of field unless you go into the fully manual mode. I usually have to use a tripod if I am taking picture of food in the evening. But in general, I think it does a nice job.
Otherwise, I like using my boyfriend's D200 with a 50mm f/1.4 lens.
laura dot at 9:39AM on 07/02/07
My father was a freelance photographer/cinematographer for 40+ years. When he found out my mother-in-law was planning to give us a digital camera as a shower gift, he suggested the Cannon A560. For a man who has only recently come around to digital (and a Nikon man) it was a surprise, but he said it was a really good camera. The chicken looks delicious btw.
KDBlue at 9:48AM on 07/02/07
Honestly, I'll use anything I can get my hands on, film or digital. Lately I've been using a Canon 5D and a Hasselblad with a 22-pixel digital Phase One Back. Overkill yes, but ohhhh sooo sweeeeet.
mattbites at 10:00AM on 07/02/07
I use a Canon Rebel XTi + 28mm f/1.8 lens. It's small, light for a dSLR and an aperture of 1.8 + ISO at 1600 allows for good results in dark restaurants.
kathryn at 11:40AM on 07/02/07
DaveFaris, is that the $24,000 or the $26,000 model of the Phase One P25? I can imagine with an image from that thing on a billboard, you can see every last pore on a sesame seed. ;-)
LunaPierCook at 12:17PM on 07/02/07
I have a panasonic TZ1, which goes for about $175 these days. It even has a "food" mode!
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4173/p1020179qs1.jpg
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4048/p1020255ae1.jpg
Cheap and compact.
Vitello Tonnato at 12:56PM on 07/02/07
I use the Canon Rebel XTi with a combination of the macro 60mm f/2.8 lens and the standard 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens (just because I want to do a shot of the entire plate instead of macros and I don't have space to back up - I know the lens suck a bit but it's useful).
My dream gear would be the same as mattbites' dream: the Canon 5D and the Hasselblad...that's what (photo) dreams are made of. Uh-huh...
wanderingeater at 1:21PM on 07/02/07
Oops! Mattbites, not DaveFaris ... Sorry, Matt!
LunaPierCook at 2:13PM on 07/02/07
I use a Canon PowerShot SD 800is. I originally made Ed Levine buy one when he started blogging because it was small and easy to carry around everywhere and takes great pix. I started borrowing his and finally bought my own because it did a much better job than my old Canon Powershot S70.
Adam Kuban at 5:58PM on 07/02/07