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Choosing the right camera

Choosing the right camera

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Choosing the right camera

In this movie we're going to take a look at the different types of camera formats that might be appropriate for you to use in your food photography. These range from the very high-end for the pro, to the point-and-shoot for the food blogger. So let's take a look at the pros and cons of each. So let's start over here with the medium format. The medium format is going to give us a lot of versatility. So we'll start up here at the front-end and it gives us interchangeable lenses. It's also going to have reflex viewing, which means that we're looking through the lens in real time. And as we go to the back of the camera, we can see it has a digital back. Now the digital back on this camera comes off, and it means that we can put on other digital backs if we don't like the particular one that's on here. And that gives us the ability to go from capturing anywhere from 25 megapixels to 50 megapixels on our capture. The drawback for this is that camera is it's very expensive, so most…

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