Monte saying hello from Washington State! Looking for camera recommendation. Appreciate any opinions!

[TorchHypnosis]

Good day to you all!

I just joined because we have been having a hard time finding a good photographer. I'm a tech head, and want to try taking some photos of the product we make at work for our website. I was going to go with a middle of the road Nikon, but one of our IT guys got great results with a Sony A7RV.

I understand if you aren't going to do anything but adjust color levels, number of mega pixels isn't that important. But it would be nice if I could rotate an image to square things up, so I should probably get something with some headroom. I also understand that a decent lens that fits your application is a MUST. And of course, I would like to invest in something that is somewhat "future-proof". I don't want to buy something that is going to be out-dated in a couple years.

That being said, I like how the guy used a gray card to calibrate the colors with his Sony A7RV...like I said, the photos turned out great...vibrant colors and true.

I am not trying to spend money on a top of the line camera, but I don't want to sacrifice quality. Isn't that the age old caveat! But of course I am willing to spend what I need to in order to achieve results. You can see some examples of what I will be photographing at www.windfall.design.

Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks for reading!

-Monte

 

[DanOstergren]

I don't think you will be disappointed with any camera in the Sony A7 series.

 

[TorchHypnosis]

I don't think you will be disappointed with any camera in the Sony A7 series.

Thanks for the reply Dan!

...um, yea...paying two mortgages ATM, just saw the price on that Sony. It's a bit over my budget. I would like to get something that retails for under $1,000 new, and maybe buy it used. I already have some lenses, I know I have a Nikon lens, and I think a Canon, but I will have to dig them up. Hopefully they still fit newer camera models.

Thanks for reading!

 

[Jeff15]

Hello Monte and welcome ...

 

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Mate

I would suggest you look into any of the pre-loved units appearing in the dealers' sites
The most critical thing for you will be the lens unit - sharpness, and the ability to close the lens down to create good depth-of-field to give you sharpness across the whole of the product. Overall the camera is much like a motor car ... it goes 'click' in your case

A good tripod to hold the camera still and secure, and maybe--depending on what the actual product is--possibly several LED lighting units may come in useful

ps- trying to reach your website my browser gave me a security warning not to continue. You might need your I.T fellers to look at it
Hope this helps
Phil

 

[TorchHypnosis]

Weird...did you spell it right? Im sure you did, but I had to ask. I would like to get to the bottom of this, we pay our IT contractor and web developers way too much for a security warning to pop up. Im sure we have an SSL certificate, its possible they did some recent work to the website and messed something up.

Between us and our sister company Mountain Lumber we make all of the wood products for all Starbucks locations in the US. We even made a board room table for Mark Zucherberg. We are not a huge company, but we've been atound over 15 years. This issue you say you experienced simply will not fly. May I ask what browser you are using? I will talk with our web developers in the morning and double check our SSL Certificate here in a few.

Thanks!
-Monte