Best Camera For Appraisals

[ToddGack80]

Looking for a compact camera with a wide-angle lens (24mm?) for those bathroom pictures. LOL What do you use? Does anyone use the new iPhone?

I still use an an old Olympus that is a smaller version of an SLR. I chose it more because it is bigger, with a neck strap, etc. because I need a hand for my clipboard and one to write with. If you can't get a room in one pix, take two.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If you can't get a room in one pix, take two.

There are all sorts of panorama stitching programs available. I use one from an old Nikon camera from the early 2000s and splice a lot of pix... Hard to get a 600' long poultry barn in one picture, even from a goodly distance

 

[KenAZ]

iPhone 11 is by fr the best

 

[graindart]

Iphone finally brought a wide angle lens to the party. Too many years too late for me to ever consider changing, but it's nice for the Iphone crowd. Personally have been using LG Android phones for years because they were some of the only ones with wide angled lenses. Past year has seen a few more phones starting to include wide angle lenses, so now I have a choice between a few.

Stopped using a point and shoot many years ago due to having to keep batteries charged or changed. Since I always have my cellphone and charge it nightly, I never have to worry about dead batteries. (I do carry an old cellphone in my car as a backup camera just in case something were to happen to my main one.)

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

iPhone 11 is by fr the best

For that price I can get a Nikon 750 with a fisheye lens

 

[OSU Beavers]

Anyone use an Android Tablet for inspections so you can click and tap to place your photos in the report on the spot?

With these damn AMCs requiring photos of every room I am considering a Tablet for time savings.

 

[graindart]

Anyone use an Android Tablet for inspections so you can click and tap to place your photos in the report on the spot?

With these damn AMCs requiring photos of every room I am considering a Tablet for time savings.

I've tried transitioning to a tablet several times over the past decade. Have tried several android and a couple ipad. I always go back to pen and paper. Tablet cameras rarely have a wide enough field of view for me. Not all of them have camera flashes. Outside I run into problems with brightness / glare. Then if it's raining or snowing I have other issues. And the sketching just doesn't cut it for me. I forced myself to go tablet for a bit, thinking that after I got used to it that it would save time. It didn't for me.

 

[J Grant]

Anyone use an Android Tablet for inspections so you can click and tap to place your photos in the report on the spot?

With these damn AMCs requiring photos of every room I am considering a Tablet for time savings.

I never understood the "time savings" of this. Whether you click and tap to place photos on the spot or click and tap to place photos later, it takes the same amount of time to do it.

 

[Meandering]

Best camera for appraisals?

In Camera at the FTC.

Ask any AMC.

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[Mr Rex]

Fish eye lens for any phone is under $25 bucks. Add flash to a I pad under $20. Their photos are SLR quality as far as any appraiser needs and I have a new digital SLR that will never take a photo on an appraisal.