What equipment do you need to open a photo studio? Get+100 points.

First of all, let's take a look at the positioning of your photo gallery. If you just take some portraits and simple wedding dresses and photos at ordinary times, the equipment need not be too complicated and the investment should not be too high, so as to avoid the business burden caused by too much investment in the early stage.

I think you should know more about the cost of counters and decoration, so I won't talk about it, just photography.

1, camera

You have to have a camera to open a photo studio, but it's not that simple to choose. Now the camera penetration rate is so high, if only everyone had a digital camera or something. Taking pictures casually is no longer the main concern of consumers, so we must leave an impression in consumers' minds. This photo studio is absolutely advanced, but quite a few consumers have a superficial understanding of the photography level to the point where the photography level is related to the equipment grade. Therefore, when choosing a camera, you should choose a machine that consumers feel professional at first sight. I suggest you buy 120 medium format machine, 135 high-end film machine and low-end digital SLR. The specific configuration is as follows:

Medium format cameras-Pentax 645/67 and Mamiya 67, can be done at the current price of less than 5,000 yuan, but in the era when 120 cameras are rarely played by people, if you take out a 120 camera to shoot films for users, users will help you promote it;

135 film camera-It is recommended to buy 135 film camera, because the price of digital cameras above the mid-range is too high, it is easy to break down, and the technology upgrade speed is too fast, which will unnecessarily increase a lot of costs and many functions cannot be realized. Therefore, considering the function and practicality, it is recommended to buy a mid-to high-end 35mm film camera. Recommended models: Canon EOS5, Nikon F80X/F90X/F 100X, Minolta α800/808. Even if you buy a high-end machine like F 100, it's only about 5 thousand to 6 thousand. However, whether this machine is used to give customers a visual experience or to take pictures of themselves, it is more valuable than the current digital cameras with the same price.

Low-end digital SLR-In this era, it is unreasonable to open a photo studio without a digital camera. However, due to the rapid upgrading, there is no need to pursue high-end, as long as a machine similar to Canon 450D, Nikon D60 and Sony α350 is equipped with a vertical handle (although it will not increase the investment of 1000 yuan, which looks much more professional).

35mm camera and digital SLR need to consider the universality of lens when purchasing, which means that purchasing the same product can save lens investment.

Lens-For a medium format machine, a 75/85mm pan/tilt or a medium focal length pan/tilt is enough for portrait shooting. If you plan to buy two heads, it is recommended to use Soviet-made lenses, which are much cheaper than the original ones and have good imaging. 35mm and digital SLR lenses need two zoom lenses (wide angle-medium focus, medium focus-telephoto) and a fairly good fixed focus lens to meet the needs of relatively high-end users. It is suggested that the three pan/tilt platforms are the wide-angle and medium-focus of C/M Company 28-85/ 105, the long zoom of N Company 24- 120 (this pan/tilt looks and uses very professionally), and the fixed-focus pan/tilt of 70-200 and 50/f 1.2, if funds permit.

2. Washing equipment.

At present, the business volume of color printing is seriously shrinking. Merchants who develop color can consider finding a photo agency specializing in "live work" nearby and taking/sending live work every day, which can save about 300,000 yuan in the cost of color printing machines.

Traditionally, shops can consider manual black-and-white processing. At present, color photography is everywhere, but people like black and white more and more. Moreover, black-and-white photography (especially black-and-white photography with real silver salt) has little transparency and relatively fierce competition, which may bring higher profits. As for the equipment for developing black-and-white films, I bought a few cans, tweezers and plates within 1000 yuan, and bought a magnifying glass of about 2,000 yuan, a magnifying head around 500 yuan (Nicole I used feels good), connected to the water source, and went into the water to set up a professional darkroom.

3. Auxiliary equipment.

Lighting-A photo studio must have lighting. Now many small shops use that kind of reflective umbrella for lighting, and the cost is within 300 yuan. But if you use professional studio lights, the kind you bought for 2000 yuan will look much more professional than that kind of umbrella.

Background cloth-according to the business scope you want to take pictures, you can buy some background cloth and change it when taking pictures;

Clothing/props-large, medium and small suits and several sets of wedding dresses, cheongsam and other clothes are essential. Although they are not very expensive, you will lose a lot of business if you forget to buy them.

Cosmetic box-must be able to provide customers with relatively professional cosmetic services;

Others, such as tripods, knives, computers with multi-function card readers (now there is the card reader with the original 3.5-inch floppy disk position) and photo printers with graphic and image software such as Photoshop.

In principle, you can buy it, use it as efficiently as possible, reduce waste and avoid excessive investment in the early stage.