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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 636086" data-attributes="member: 43545">Stop!&nbsp; Don't buy anything until you figure out your studio and lighting. Cameras will not differ enough to compensate of less than optimum lighting. Seriously, cameras just hold a sensor and record light data, any camera will be good enough but your lighting and skill using it, posing and composition determine whether the images is good enough for the catalog. For your $2000, spend most of it on 3 strobes, stands, backdrops, modifiers(stripboxes, softbox, gobos, snoots, grids and guess what, you used up the $2000 but you get far more bang for your dollar with that lighting set up than spending it on a camera. Then borrow any modern DSLR and you are ready to start learning how to do it and how to pose. You are running off in the wrong direction and even a D810 without good lighting will be no better than your cell phone. If you are going to shoot them yourself, attend workshops, volunteer to assist in a working fashion studio, or pay them to allow you to hang out. Posing/professional skilled models, lighting, photographer skill, post processing and very last is the camera and lens in order of priority.&nbsp; There is no arguing with this, ask any successful clothing line how they present their products. A camera will not even be mentioned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 636086, member: 43545"] Stop! Don't buy anything until you figure out your studio and lighting. Cameras will not differ enough to compensate of less than optimum lighting. Seriously, cameras just hold a sensor and record light data, any camera will be good enough but your lighting and skill using it, posing and composition determine whether the images is good enough for the catalog. For your $2000, spend most of it on 3 strobes, stands, backdrops, modifiers(stripboxes, softbox, gobos, snoots, grids and guess what, you used up the $2000 but you get far more bang for your dollar with that lighting set up than spending it on a camera. Then borrow any modern DSLR and you are ready to start learning how to do it and how to pose. You are running off in the wrong direction and even a D810 without good lighting will be no better than your cell phone. If you are going to shoot them yourself, attend workshops, volunteer to assist in a working fashion studio, or pay them to allow you to hang out. Posing/professional skilled models, lighting, photographer skill, post processing and very last is the camera and lens in order of priority. There is no arguing with this, ask any successful clothing line how they present their products. A camera will not even be mentioned. [/QUOTE]

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