Make Money Online With Your Digital Camera

Canon IXUS 80IS

Talking about Digital Camera, I have a short story about myself within this week. It was just Monday, I suddenly started to plan to buy myself a digital camera as DSLR. I was hanging around on the net and searched for the information, compared specifications and prices. First I think of Sony Alpha which is Sony Alpha 200, I think it’s suitable for beginner like me since I never been using DSLR and it’s consider a high end digital camera. After that my colleague told me that if I’m looking for long term usage, then I should go for Nikon DSLR such as D40, D60, D80 or D90.

I was thinking to use the money that I earned from my blog, but after thinking about my future which I’m going to further my study in coming few months and I need the money to pay my University fee, so I cleared my mind and changed decision. As a part time blogger aka part time student aka full time worker, I know that it’s really hard to make money either make money online or make money as a worker. So, I’m not going to waste the money first.

My purpose to buy a DSLR is because of I like the photos that taken by DSLR, can be considered it’s my interest. Other than this, I own a food cuisine blog too, I must take some nice food photos to share it in my food blog, so that it can attracts more people to read my blog, am I right? But, I stop to think that first because of money problem. But then, I still bought a digital camera which is Canon IXUS 80IS.

I bought it few hours ago in a warehouse sales in PJ state, the warehouse sales will be end tomorrow. Not much things selling there except digital camera, if you’re looking for other IT products, don’t waste your time and money to travel there. Canon IXUS 80IS is selling at about RM899 and I bought it in just RM685 in warehouse sales today, came with normal full set, 4GB memory card, free gift, and porch. I bought a gold colour 1 since there was no stock for other colours except pink, the gold colour Canon IXUS 80IS looked very cool in reality and I like it so much. It was a very great deal!

Canon IXUS 80IS is a normal digital camera but it can takes nice shot too. The specifications and features as below :
i) Aluminium body in 4 colour variations
ii) 8.0 Megapixels
iii) 3x optical zoom with optical IS
iv) Motion Detection Technology
v) Face Detection Technology
vi) Red-Eye Correction
vii) DIGIC III processor and iSAPS
viii) 2.5” PureColor LCD II
x) 18 Shooting Modes
xi) Creative movie options
xii) Anti-shake

How To Make Money Online With Your Digital Camera

If you have a normal digital camera like me or a DSLR, definitely you can make money online with it. In my opinion, start a food blog to make money online with your digital camera is very good idea. It’s really no difficult to make money with your food blog, but you have to be patient, when your food blog grows and the money will be flowing in non-stop.

1) Create a food blog for free in Blogspot or wordpress.com. If you buy your own hosting and domain, go for wordpress.org.

2) Bring along your digital camera when going out for meal.

3) Take some nice shots on the foods.

4) Keep the receipt and remember to drop down the address, so that you can share what you ate and tell your readers where can they eat it too.

5) Keep on updating your blog whenever you visit other restaurants.

6) Do some SEO exercises in your food blog to improve your pagerank and search engine ranking for certain keyword.

7) Apply Google Adsense or Foodbuzz (My favourite ads which pays in CPM basis)!

Sit down and wait…? No! You have to keep update to satisfy your readers so that they will keep reading your blog and I’m sure you will make lot of money from Foodbuzz and Google Adsense.

A nice photography can really attract people to read your blog and increase your traffics, I yet to own a DSLR now but it’s my next target in coming months or years. Other than make money online with your digital camera to start a food blog, you can create a photograph blog too but I have yet to do a analysis and survey on the keyword, I will do it in coming post and share it with you guys!

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25 Responses

ahmike said on January 10th, 2009 , 11:30 pm

Wow congratz bro. Haha, my bro bought same camera too at RM800 without fair just LAST WEEK !

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Haha thanks mike! Oh? Rm800? It’s different too much with mine wor, I just get it in Rm685 in the warehouse sales this evening. Worth buy haha. How come your bro buy this camera again since he has DSLR?

ahmike Reply:
January 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Yala. How come his so expensive de? Kanasai. xD

Ewin said on January 10th, 2009 , 11:42 pm

will u lost the gliterrati status from nuffnang if u put in adsense or foodbuzz?

i have a photography blog, but still not much of a traffic and nuffnang aint going fast either.
g r r r. how to improve?

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Hi Ewin,

No, your Glitterati status from Nuffnang will be still maintained even thought you apply Adsense or Foodbuzz, they can work together.
Oo, seems that you have a nice photography in your blog, but it’s more on personal rant right? Hmm in my opinion, personal blog is kinda difficult to increase traffics and make money.
I see that you snap a few food photos too, very nice shot. Do you interest to create another blog and only for food? You can apply Foodbuzz and they pay you a fixed rate for 1000 page impressions. Check on my previous post about Foodbuzz.
If you face any problem, do not hesistate to add my MSN through the “Contact” page above okay?

I hope you like my blog.
Cheers!

titan said on January 11th, 2009 , 1:12 pm

its just enough with me if i using y sony ericcson handphone camare. I already manage to make money from that camera. Hoho..but i agree i also like to have DSLR camera in future..

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Haha, I think it’s okay to snap some photos with handphone camera, but then my handphone camera is good enough to take a nice photo, so I should need a camera hehe. Yea, DSLR is my target in the coming year.

bird said on January 11th, 2009 , 4:39 pm

hi guy, dint mean to spoil the things here,but thr is somting I curious,
wont the money we spent for the meals that we blog about is much higher than
the amount we earn from food blog? btw, congratz for getting ur blog’s earning bcom btr n btr. ^^

birds last blog post..

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Hi bird, thanks for the comment!
Between, it’s not spoiling the things over here but it’s just your opinion, right?
But, maybe we have different thought? Because I’m not eating because of blogging. As human, we need to eat, at the same time, we can take some photos and share it in our blog with everybody, tell them what we ate and where we can eat it, we can earn some money from advertisement at the same time, is it better than nothing?
Yea, of course the money we spent for the meals are definitely higher than we earn from blog, but at least we ate something delicious and we tried it before right?
So, the conclusion is, I’m not eating just for blogging, it’s for my ownself. haha!
Do you agree?

bird Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
haha, u get it rite.
hmm, perhaps with barely focus on promoting
“cheap n big” hawker food can turn the situation
into earn more than spend ?? xD

birds last blog post..

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Yea, definitely right! We will try to find out more economic and good hawker food in future. But, I will still trying any foods and share it in my blog no matter it’s hawker food or Korean, Japanese, or Chinese Food in restaurant.
Between, I hope you enjoy reading my blog, hehe!

bird Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Sure!! you are exactly a make money’s blog’s guru ! haha. I learned lots from you . Ganpahteh ~ hehe

birds last blog post..

Jack said on January 12th, 2009 , 11:36 am

This is really a nice idea. Hope you can easily meet out your university fee within no minute.

Jacks last blog post..Do Internal Links Really Matters?

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Yea, thanks Jack for commenting! Hope I can make more money in 2009 to cover my university fee!

Chinese New Year Food Cuisine, Taiping Food, Malaysia Food Blog said on January 13th, 2009 , 12:00 am

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chuckiesd said on January 13th, 2009 , 3:42 pm

this is good idea for photographer. Maybe i will using my DSLR for this method of earning money from the net.

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Wah, I admire you that you own a DSLR. Hmm, it will be my target in coming year! Definitely you can make money with your DSLR by shooting nice photos!

devlim.com said on January 13th, 2009 , 5:52 pm

Wow, RM685(So expense ), and good tips for make money with you digital camera but not for me~ coz i dont like to take pirctue, btw
let exchange link

my
name : devlim.com
link : http://www.devlim.com
type - Personal Blogs
u can view you link here : http://www.devlim.com/?page_id=296

wait for your respone~

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KaHoongChai Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Hi devlim, RM685 is kinda cheap compare with market price already. I like this camera which takes a lot of nice photos for me.
Anyway, I have added your link. Add mine too okay?

devlim.com Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
add already~

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
thank you bro!

jane said on January 14th, 2009 , 12:08 am

Hi, do you mind sharing what were the free gifts offered for IXUS 80 package? Thanks much.

KaHoongChai Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Hi jane, of course I don’ mind. Here it is..:)
It was just a small gift from them, they some more told me I could get secret gift before I bought the camera. =.=”

article house said on January 31st, 2009 , 4:27 pm

Nice idea, thanks for this I’ll find potographer near me to do this

Ryan said on February 22nd, 2009 , 2:04 am

finish the study first.. but thanks for give me some idea

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