Food blogging camera. What do you use?
I want to take pics of my thanksgiving feast. Even been entertaining throwing my hat into the food blog community and not just as a lurker.
Looking for a better (using good better best) camera but good would work.
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9 Comments:
I use my Fuji Finepix F30. Bought the thing specifically for its great handling of low-light photos. (My kitchen is pretty dark.) It's very flexible and can do all kinds of neat stuff. Colors are very true, as you'd expect from Fuji.
hereandthe at 12:06PM on 11/09/07
I'm not a food blogger, but the Digital Rebel is a great camera to start out with if you truly want control of your pics.
Chaoss at 1:27PM on 11/09/07
I use a Canon PowerShot SD400 but I'm not always thrilled with how the pictures come out. I think part of it is my lack of knowledge of how to best use it though. For a sample of pictures taken with this camera (some having slight adjustments) visit Chew on That blog.
Hillary
Chew on That at 2:00PM on 11/09/07
I use a Canon SD500 point and shoot. There's no image stabilization (IS), so one key is to have a steady hand or prop the camera on a solid platform. I often use a gorrillapod to take shots. All the pictures on my food blog, Sunday Nite Dinner , are taken with the SD500
If you are looking for a very good point and shoot camera, I would recommend the Canon SD850 IS. It's a nice compact camera with IS. The cost is around $250 right now.
I'm in the process of researching DSLRs and looking into Canon Rebel XTi or the 30D. Obviously, a DSLR will produce better quality pictures, but a compact point and shoot allows for more discretion at a restaurant.
SundayNiteDinner at 2:29PM on 11/09/07
I will bare my soul and endure the scorn of the true food bloggers by letting you know that my food blog camera is a Samsung Blackjack!
kitchengeeking at 3:48PM on 11/09/07
Fuji FinePix
But my mobile phone takes darn good photos too!
KFPEKOPEKO at 3:25AM on 11/10/07
i'm in love with my canon rebel xt.
Steamy Kitchen at 9:37AM on 11/10/07
I love my Casio EXILM S770
Cary at 1:25PM on 11/10/07
I use a Canon Powershot SD600 Digital Elph. I used to be a somewhat serious photographer (ok, that was 10 years ago, but I do remember the basics), so I know how to properly use the manual settings. The automatic setting sucks, and I rarely use it.
All my food photos are taken on the macro setting (or sometimes on manual if I'm not doing a closeup). The key is to take tons of photos and really learn how your camera takes pictures - Canon Powershots produce very different photos from Sony Cybershots, so you have to play around with your camera to figure out what settings give you the results you want.
Once you have that all figured out, you'll be well on your way to lovely photos. Oh yeah - a decent photo editing program helps, too! (I am a fan of Picasa - it's free and very user friendly).
charm city cupcake at 2:46AM on 11/13/07