Rug Doc
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So at work (which is a barn) at the moment I use a Canon 500D mounted on one of the ceiling beams to take photographs of rugs and carpets laying flat on the floor..
With a standard kit lens It’s so high I can get a 14 x 10ft carpet in frame which is superb - I had a 10-22 lens on it before and 10 was too wide, so had to zoom in to fit the floor space I have, so no need for a very wide angle lens.
I would like to be able to take better quality images, so would like to upgrade the camera and lens.. a professional photographer we use (who also takes shots in a similar fashion) uses a 5D mk3 (mk3 I think) and the quality they get is very good, so doesn’t need to be anything more sophisticated than that.
Because we can’t physically get to the beam the camera is mounted on, I use a permanent 240v supply to the camera and the EOS utility on my iMacs and remote shooting to take the shots. Again I need remote control.
I would also like to improve the lighting. It’s a barn with 15 ft windows on one side, so sunny days are a no go for photographs, we wait for overcast days as it’s inpossible to cut all the light out, but I’d like to have some more powerful lighting.. the pros use a number of Halogen floods, so this obviously works, I could do the same, or flash, but also been looking at these new big LED panels??
So I’d love some advice and recommendations please. I’d really like -
1)
Remote control (can be EOS utility) but that has no control over zoom.. do the full frame cameras offer this facility?
2)
Must be able to be run from a power supply rather than batteries as I can’t get to it!
2)
Improved lighting, would flash or flood be best?
You can see the photography we currently take and the barn on my website www.farnhamantiquecarpets.com
Thanks so much.
With a standard kit lens It’s so high I can get a 14 x 10ft carpet in frame which is superb - I had a 10-22 lens on it before and 10 was too wide, so had to zoom in to fit the floor space I have, so no need for a very wide angle lens.
I would like to be able to take better quality images, so would like to upgrade the camera and lens.. a professional photographer we use (who also takes shots in a similar fashion) uses a 5D mk3 (mk3 I think) and the quality they get is very good, so doesn’t need to be anything more sophisticated than that.
Because we can’t physically get to the beam the camera is mounted on, I use a permanent 240v supply to the camera and the EOS utility on my iMacs and remote shooting to take the shots. Again I need remote control.
I would also like to improve the lighting. It’s a barn with 15 ft windows on one side, so sunny days are a no go for photographs, we wait for overcast days as it’s inpossible to cut all the light out, but I’d like to have some more powerful lighting.. the pros use a number of Halogen floods, so this obviously works, I could do the same, or flash, but also been looking at these new big LED panels??
So I’d love some advice and recommendations please. I’d really like -
1)
Remote control (can be EOS utility) but that has no control over zoom.. do the full frame cameras offer this facility?
2)
Must be able to be run from a power supply rather than batteries as I can’t get to it!
2)
Improved lighting, would flash or flood be best?
You can see the photography we currently take and the barn on my website www.farnhamantiquecarpets.com
Thanks so much.