re: Cameras for food photography

Hi Nuria! Callicious Cakes brought to mind a of a couple things that you also might consider ….

First, many of the point and shoot cameras (those that you don’t attach a lens to) take very good images but have a very limited zoom function. So if you wanted to get a very close closeup of your work, it may not do it for you. A camera which has auto and manual focusing ability (one with an attachable lens) can do it for you.

Secondly, if you intend to take your pictures on the highest resolution (largest picture) setting (magazine requested quality), you will run out of memory on your camera much quicker. This also applies even more so when taking high resolution video. To avoid being in this situation you might need to purchase more memory for any camera you purchase than what it comes with.

So at this point you need to think about whether you just need a very good point and shoot camera (just pretty good images for everyday use and posting online) or one you can attach lenses to so you can manipulate the camera to do very close closeups, take magazine quality images, take great low light images and be artistic with by working the settings. Depends how serious you are about the imagework. In general, most people won’t know or care if it came from a point and shoot camera or one with an attachable lens or not as long as they can clearly see what you are intending to show them.

I don’t mean to overload you here, just trying to help you keep cash from unnecessarily going out the door and/or help guide you in the appropriate direction – I do understand how overwhelming this can appear to be at first and this can be a pricey little venture. Good luck!
Beverley Way
(thank you C.C. for jogging my memory here).