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Photo studio or film studio: which do you hire?
The difference between a photo studio, a film studio and a room that can do both, so you can choose a space that suits your shoot.
Last updated: 7 November 2026
Photo studio
A photo studio is set up for stills: flash or continuous light, paper rolls or a white wall, often a makeup corner. Check whether the setup suits your lookbook, product photos or portraits. For dialogue, long takes or a larger crew the ceiling, the sound or the power may fall short.
Film studio
A film studio puts more weight on acoustics, continuous light, direction and sometimes chroma key. Filmstudio Den Bosch and Green Screen Studio Utrecht present themselves clearly as film spaces. They are built for interviews, commercials, videos and livestreams.
Both: the hybrid studio
Many Dutch studio operators do both. Studio Big Time calls itself a film and photo studio, Westerpark Studio rents for photo and video, and Novellu describes a photo and video studio. In Shootspace you can filter those as photo and film. If you shoot photos and video in one day, check whether the space suits both.