HELP!

Hello all Im new to this forum thing and I really hope it'll help me better my photography knowledge and knowhow. Im currently only taking interior photos and occasional events but I need some help. I have a Canon 10D I know it's out dated but it's all I can afford and I need advice on lenses for interior. I have only one and I don't have much money to buy a new one so I found a place to rent from but I need advice on good ones to use for large luxurious homes. ex. 5,000+ sq ft. I work for a Stone importing company and I catalog all their photos from installations and I create or am trying to create brochures for them as well. Im new at that too and am getting a bit overwhelmed. Any advice on interior photos and on product shots of the stone which is either in tile form 12X12 18X18 or 24X24 and then 10foot slabs in a warehouse. And later I will be setting up a warehouse studio and am debating on proper lighting usage in there since the lights arent good for photography. Any help or advice would be great! Thanks PLP

In the past, with 35mm photography, 24-35mm lenses were frequently used for interior work. Canon, for example, makes both 24mm and 35mm Perspective Control lenses to prevent walls from looking like they are toppling over (look up a skyscraper and notice the sides seem to taper as they go up!) PC lenses are fairly expensive, so you might simply consider lenses with the same angle of view. Since you are using a 10D, you need to apply the crop factor conversion to learn what the right focal length would be. On a 1.6-crop format camera, 24mm --> 15mm, and 35mm --> 22mm. You could find a number of wide angle zooms, including Canon 10-22, Sigma 12-24, and a number of others, which would provide similar range of focal lengths. Note that these focal lengths are for doing architectural interiors, not product shots of stone samples. For that you need something maybe 50-90mm for your 1.6 crop camera.

The Canon 10-22 is an EF-s lens, it won't work with the 10D.

I was aware of that, I was merely pointing to the availability of zooms with ranges of focal lengths and provided two examples. For that matter, a number of the aftermarket units are EFS mount only! Maybe it's time to buy a new body? A Canon 5D with the 24mm TSE lens would be perfect!

Wilt wrote:
I was aware of that, I was merely pointing to the availability of zooms with ranges of focal lengths and provided two examples. For that matter, a number of the aftermarket units are EFS mount only! Maybe it's time to buy a new body? A Canon 5D with the 24mm TSE lens would be perfect!

The third party manufacturers do not use the EF-S mount. It is an EF mount, but designed for APS-C sensors. They will work on a 10D. Only EF-S lenses from Canon will not work.