I'm looking a camera for my dad's company. I'm using this camera to take photo of the products for making catalogue and posting on online auctions. Sometimes I will taking picture on small items. Will appreciated if you guys can give me some advise for choosing right camera. Thanks

Buy Canon!

For business right. Go for DSLR n it worth to the company.

If you want an inexpensive choice, The Canon Powershot series eg POWERSHOT A700,A540 are suitable. Has good Macro funtion and high picture resolution.





This post has been edited by julchin_09: Jul 9 2006, 09:48 PM

Thanks for the advice.....I did some research and found out Kodak Z series quite nice....it has 10X zoom. Any comments ?

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jht..._requestid=9390

I see. Well yeah, its going to be more expensive.

If you're looking for super-zoom range, also consider the Panasonic FZ-7 and Canon POWERSHOT S3IS. Both these cams have 12X zoom instead.

If its just stationary products you're shooting, you will be working with close distances. A large zoom is unnecessary in my opinion; its not like you're shooting something a hundred metres away.

GO for small p&s like canon A700..
Good for macro.....

If you wanna use Macro, try consider Canon G6.

If for business, you seriusly need to consider better cameras that offer more functionality like the SLR or maybe Canon PowerShot S3IS or the PowerShot Pro models.

hmm....seems like all prefer canon but there are different model offered by u guys. I think better write down my usage on this camera.

Product im taking mostly electrical & lightings. For example...large object like TV and spare parts.....some spare parts may as small as 20 cents.

All picture taken will be used to create our product catalogue. Therefore, clear picture would be the priority. However, sometimes i will post picture on auction website (ebay, lelong) so large picture file would be a problem. Perhaps, u guys can provide some basic knowledge of digital camera for me. Thanks

Quite frankly all you need is a simple compact camera. Any would do, I do need see optical quality as very important for your use, unless you are dealing with luxury goods and need to really impress potential customers with extremely high quality and detailed full page shots; more likely your catalogue would have several small pictures per page.

This post has been edited by elb: Jul 10 2006, 06:50 AM

Yup, Thats the idea. What my concern is.....will normal camera can shot nice picture on small objects ? I mean those 3 M.P with only 3x optical zoom ?

can, but some cannot, because of the macro function ~!
How about Nikon ??

I like this brand and its affordable too

Well, does it really matter? Will your catalogue be of high resolution to begin with?

Yes, there would be some good quality picture because sometimes i will take some picture for small wire. The picture need need to be clear enough to see the inside part of the wire.

simple solution try bringing one of ur parts to those camera fair they have regularly at shopping complex. then try out various camera and see which one can take the best photo. hehe

That would be a great idea. Thanks