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Interior Design Photography – Camera and Lens Selection
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Interior Design Photography – Camera and Lens Selection
Hi all
I am Ar. Angel Pandhi, an architect and interior designer by profession (working in the field since last three years). I enrolled this course because I want to add on Interior photography as my professional skillset. I want to do professional interior photoshoots and want it to be a source of revenue too. I need to purchase my first camera ever.
My budget is upto 1.5Lac for Camera+lens.I have completed the camera and lens buying guide as well as photography basics course. After that and a research online I have shortlisted Canon EOS R8 body (99k retailer price) for the purpose.
I am confused about the lens selection
Canon RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM OR
Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STMOr do you have any other recommendation that can work better in my budget
Please let me know if the combination selection is correct for interior photography or is there any better combination I can use.Thanks a ton in advance!
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Hi, It seems like you’re trying to trade off between two different types of lenses, i.e., zoom vs prime.
1. Zoom lems has varying focal length – you can alter the frame coverage without changing your camera-to-subject distance whereas with Prime lens, in order to achieve different frame, camera-to-subject distance should be altered as you can’t change the focal length, which means you need to move around which is easier when your subject distance varies in horizontal plane (land), but difficult if you need to cover vertical plane (any object in height like ceiling, floors, dome).
2. Angle of coverage – again w.r.t. focal length – lesser the focal length, wider the coverage. Again, you need to trade off between the shape distortion that you will get when you have lesser focal length (ultra wide angle lens) vs (wide angle lens).
3. Aperture – Wider the aperture, more light comes (suitable for low light situation) but lesser the depth-of-field (bokkeh effect – smoother and Creamy background). I’m pretty sure you don’t need a wide aperture since for architecture you need to capture every details with more depth-of-field (both foreground and background to be in focus) and also you will have enough light always as you’re in a controlled environment w.r.t. to source of light. So you can trade off this aspect.
Hope this gives some idea. In case, you are limited in budget and don’t want to regret the choice of lens, try renting out a camera with both type of lenses for a day, shoot with your environment with both lenses about the the same frame, get the real-time experience which nobody can give you, then go for purchase based on the difference you see. The rental amount will not make you regret.
Good luck!
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This is exactly the kind of guidance I was looking for.
It is completely logical. This has helped me conclude that the zoom lens should be practically a better choice for me.
Still, I’ll go with your advice to try out a rental model first.
Thank you so much!!
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Gald that my perspectives helped! Happy Learning!
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Better to choose less f number lens
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