Real Estate Photography: MPB Cautionary Tale / Vent |
- MPB Cautionary Tale / Vent
- Beginning in real estate photography
- Being made redundant! Opportunity to do what I want.... RE Photography! But what gear to be competitive in a very hot Auckland market?!
- 18mm too wide?
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 10:23 AM PDT My cautionary tale/venting about buying from MPB.com After researching tilt shift options for my Nikon, I found a listing on MPB for a used Nikon fit 24mm Rokinon Tilt Shift lens. I bought it and excitedly waited. Delivery day came and went. Then another day. The lens arrived five days later. Water under the bridge, until I opened the box and it was a CANON fit lens! Called customer service, and was told that this happens, they buy and sell something like 400 items each day, and things can be entered wrong (I don't trust their ratings since they apparently don't even check the boxes) Shipped back, and no refund. Have to go through their whole return procedure of waiting for delivery/inspection/whatever. The customer service rep said that people have sent back rocks instead of gear, which is a pretty terrible thing to accuse a customer of doing when they purchased an item that they didn't even have in inventory. After many calls, they aparrently escalated to their Director of Operations said no to a refund, have to wait. So I'm out the money until they decide to return it. I have no lens. I'm filing a dispute with my bank. TLDR: MPB's customer service is (sorely) lacking and good luck if anything goes wrong. Buy from Adorama or B&H. [link] [comments] |
| Beginning in real estate photography Posted: 25 Sep 2020 04:36 PM PDT Hello guys! I really love this kind of photography and I would like to start in this field. Soon I will get the sony a7 III So for now I have some questions: 1. How to find clients if I don't have a portfolio? 2. Sony 16-35 f4.0 is good enough to begin with? Cause almost all my buget is getting on the body and 16-35 f4.0 is the cheapest I found. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:34 PM PDT Hey guys... a lass here based in Auckland, NZ. Apologies this is lengthy. Background. About to be made redundant. Have been looking to get started in RE photography for a couple of months now! Time is passing by & savings dwindling. But really want to go for it! The property market here is hot as and know there just can't be enough of photographers to cover all that hot ground! My mind is 🤯 from the choice out there! But I know I want gear that makes me somewhat of a one stop shop at least for certain types of listings to begin with. From my research a lot of Realtors have commented here and else where, that that's what they're looking for. Deal with one photographer. Ideally, to be competitive I'd like to offer services: 1. stills 2. video (4k/60fps 10bit) 3. 4k drone (possibly $$$). 4. Down the line 360/floorplans w/ iGuide, as Matterport is ridiculously expensive! Budget is tight. Everything is so much more expensive here in NZ. Probably looking at 3k (if I get camera on hire purchase) to 4/5k!!! Any NZers in RE photography out there? Is this doable? Using secondhand gear is all good but I cant seem to find a camera with the 4k 60fps video specs to suit requirements. I was looking at Sony a7iii, New Panasonic Lumix S5 Lens? Gimbal? Speedlights? Gearhead Tripod? Drone - does this really need to be 4k? 1080p 120fps would be pretty good also, right, for starters? Maybe this is the same for camera/video. Any insight, experience, recommendations from y'all would be just awesome! TBH I'm bricking it but excited at the prospect in doing something I know I'm going to love :) Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:06 PM PDT I have a 24-70mm on my Sony A7RIV. I was thinking about getting a 18mm but I wasn't sure if that is too wide. What do you guys think? [link] [comments] |
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