This web site presents the best compact digital cameras for real estate professionals.  Read this page for a quick overview, check out our other pages for additional information.

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Great Real Estate photos require three things:

1. Camera with Wide angle lens; 24mm minimum point and shoot digital camera (Real Estate Cameras)
2. Good lighting for interior photographs (external flash)
3. Steady hand for sharp photographs (monopod)

Camera with wide angle lens (our picks)

Professional Real Estate Photographers use lenses as wide as 10mm to take photographs of complete rooms. These super wide angle lenses are expensive and difficult to use correctly, best left to the professionals for properties that require professional photography. Great Real Estate Photographs can be taken with a 24mm lens or smaller, not a 25mm, 28mm or a 35mm lens.

Check out this article by Sam Miller a Real Estate agent in Ohio: Digital-Camera-Wide-Angle-Lens-Comparison,  It really shows the differences in lenses.

35mm Lens

This photograph taken with a 35mm compact point and shoot camera is unacceptable, this is the lens many Realtors are using on their compact point and shoot cameras. Make sure you get a wide angle lens on your camera! Check our review pages for the best cameras for real estate photography.

24mm Lens

Many of the newer compact digial cameras have a 24mm  lens. This lens is acceptable, but just, it will work for most properties. Remember compact cameras must be used with an external slave flash indoors to get the best results.

18mm Lens

A 18mm lens shows more of the room, but these lenses are expensive and require an expensive SLR digital camera. The Panasonic DMC-LX3 10.1MP Digital Camera with 24mm Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and the Panasonic DMW-LW46 Wide Conversion Lens give you a Real Estate camera with a 18MM lens! The Ricoh Caplio GX100 10MP compact digital camera offers the Ricoh DW-6 19mm Wide Conversion Lens  (optional) enabling you to take ultra-wide-angle shots with a 19mm focal length.

10mm Lens

This show the most room and is the most expensive lens. Notice that in the edges of the photos the angles are not correct, this will require post-processing. Professional Real Estate Photographers have special software to correct this distorion.

External Flash

Compact cameras have an on-camera flash that is great for taking photos of people up to 10 feet away. These on-camera flashes are not powerful enough to take high quality interior photographs of large rooms. An inexpensive external flash is required to take the highest quality interior photographs. See our External Flash page for more information.

Monopod

A monopod allows you to steady a compact digital camera for perfect photographs in marginal lighting, usually found in interior photographs. Monopods are easily stored under you car seat so you will always have it with you. A monopod can also be used as a camera extension pole to make that  pool or exterior photograph really look great! See our Monopod page for more information.

Make sure to check out our other pages for more information and reviews on cameras we feel are the best point and shoot digital cameras for Real Estate photography. This site has links to Amazon.com for camera specifications, camera reviews and camera prices.

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