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If you are planning to get your products on your website, you may be thinking of digital macro photography to do the trick.
Digital close-ups will be the quickest and cheapest route to go, but which camera should you use?
Do you need to look at digital SLR cameras for your digital macro photography, or will you get good enough results with an appropriate digital compact or "prosumer" (professional consumer) model?
For close up macro work many of the compact or prosumer cameras are considered good enough. For instance, if it is for getting those rings and other jewellery items up there on the web, a 3 Mega Pixel camera will adequately produce images that will still need to be reduced in size.
Because of their small sensor size the compacts often have better depth of field which could be very good for this task.
For big close-ups rather than true digital macro photography you can couple a good prosumer camera with a 2 dioptre Close Up lens.
For example, you can use the KonicaMinolta Z1 with its 10x zoom which would get you in very close. Or you could use the Nikon 5700 in a similar manner - without having to spend a lot more on a comparable Digital SLR plus lens.
On the other hand, if you want to go the DSLR route, a good example - and if money is a concern! - is the Canon 300D Rebel which produces excellent close up results.
As your web products are unlikely to be scared off by getting too close, a 50mm macro lens such as the Sigma 50mm f2.8 EX DG MACRO should do the trick!
Of course, if you're on a tight budget and you need to get those products out there on the web without risking too much scarce capital, this is part of the problem with the DSLR's: to equal the better prosumer cameras it might be necessary to buy an extra lens which can add to the cost considerably!
Some general macro photography hints:
- Jewellery is often tricky because of the reflective surfaces. Use reflectors to create a soft surrounding light.
- When using window lighting you can use a paper reflector on far side to fill in the dark areas.
- You can make your own reflectors using cooking foil or white paper.
- If your camera has a hot-shoe, you can make use of a ring light (eg the HVLRLA from Sony) for extreme close ups.
For more information visit http://www.Best-Digital-Photography.com. Rika Susan researches, writes, and publishes full-time on the Web. Copyright of this article: 2005 Rika Susan. This article may be reprinted if the resource box - including the link - is left intact.
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