Setup
An overhead arm over the counter, a front angle, one soft key light and a mic that survives the exhaust fan.
Ready kits, each with a final price. Swap any item, add extras, then share the link.
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Plan your studioBring your own: your phone (USB-C for the mic receiver), a worktop, shelf or table edge up to 50 mm thick for the clamp
Final budget
Bring your own: your phone (USB-C for the mic receiver), a worktop or table with an edge the bracket can clamp to, a power point within reach of the light, a 3-pin universal socket or travel plug adapter for the light's power adapter
Final budget
Bring your own: a power point or extension board within a metre of each camera, and one for each light, a 3-pin universal socket or travel plug adapter for the USB-C charger
Final budget
Bring your own: a power point or extension board within a metre of each camera, and one for the light, a 3-pin universal socket or travel plug adapter for the USB-C charger
SmallRig's Desk Overhead Photography bracket clamps to a counter or a table and puts the camera straight down; its crab-clamp magic arm is the budget version for a phone, and the CT25 overhead tripod does the same free-standing where there is nothing to clamp to. Datavideo's ceiling bracket kits, on a quote, are the permanent version for a restaurant kitchen. Frame it once on an empty board and mark the counter.
SmallRig RC 30B, RC 100B and RC 220B; Godox SL60IID, ML60II Bi, SL100D and SL300III; the Digitek D40W battery panel for a counter with no cable run. The kitchen tubelight goes off — it is green, flat and coming from exactly the wrong place.
The lavaliers in the Godox MoveLink II M2 box, or SmallRig Forevala L20; Shure MVL and CVL come on a quote. Run it under the apron so the cable does not swing, and record your voice with the exhaust fan off; the sizzle is a separate layer you already have on the camera track.
Godox MoveLink Mini and MoveLink II M2, and Lark Max 2. None of these is a UHF set, so there is nothing to coordinate, and the transmitter clipped inside a collar keeps the same voice level whether you are at the board or reaching over a burner.
SmallRig phone cages, filter adapters and metal phone holders. A cage gives the phone a cold shoe for the receiver and a thread that fits the overhead arm — that is the whole difference between a phone propped on a dabba and a second camera.
SmallRig CT-20 and the AD-50 Lite video tripod. Plate height means the lens is level with the food, not looking down at it from standing.
SmallRig's RA-D30 mini parabolic softbox, LA-O90 octagonal softbox and 5-in-1 collapsible reflectors, Godox Bowens softboxes. Bare LED on food is hard and shiny; through diffusion it looks like a window, which is the light every food photograph is imitating.
Every kit on this page shows a final price, added up from its lines, and is sourced to order and dispatched in 14 to 21 working days. Items on a quote get their price and lead time on the quote. Phones are bring-your-own in the Budget and Starter kits; Better and Pro include the cameras. Restaurant kitchen rigging and permanent ceiling mounts go through the Pro Desk.
Tell us the room, the budget and how many people are on mic. We send back a costed list and a quotation within 2 business days of a complete request.
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