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My Favorite Camera and Lens for Microstock Photography     posted on 19th of october, 2009

I started selling my pictures through microstock almost two years ago in November 2007. Today, I have about 1800 pictures in my stock portfolio. I am counting here all pictures created for microstock, not just pictures accepted by Dreamstime or any other specific agency.

Since I am using Adobe Lightroom 2 to catalog all my pictures, I can easily sort them according to camera and lens. It provides some interesting statistics. .

Let’s look at cameras first.

Canon EOS 10D: 50 pictures (2.7 %)

I started submitting pictures to microstock with my first digital SLR camera.

Canon EOS 40D: 1500 pictures (81.5%)

Very quickly, I upgraded my old 10D to Canon 40D and this camera still remains my microstock work horse.

Pentax Optio W10 and...

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Comments (13)

My god.. I am totally lost but don't mind I will look for it and learn! :) - posted by Luissantos84 on October 21, 2009
I believe that 100mm lens with a full sensor camera will be equivalent to 60mm macro lens I am using with a cropped sensor Canon D40. - posted by Marekuliasz on October 21, 2009
Sorry for the question, but why do you need 100mm (so much zoom right)? - posted by Luissantos84 on October 21, 2009

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