Jan 9, 2010 – Introducing the World’s First Office Photography Machine called the Photosimile 5000. Taking its name from “facsimile” the Photosimile 5000 is being called “the next imaging device for the office”. It’s a PC-controlled desktop photography studio that integrates a 28”x28”x28” lightbox, an automated camera positioning system and built-in turntable. Using a Canon DSLR camera and powerful workflow software, the Photosimile 5000 makes it easy for anyone to create professional, shadow-free pictures ideal for web, print and daily business communications, no experience necessary!
The lightbox connects to a Windows based PC via USB and the software controls the studio, camera location, turntable movement, camera settings, picture taking and processing workflows. Simply place an item inside, compose using Preview, Zoom and Crop commands in the software and then click Snap and the picture automatically downloads to the PC screen in seconds. Users can annotate, mask, email and batch process images with regards to file name, size, and resolution, watermarking and saving.
In addition to still photos, Photosimile 5000 creates professional 360-degree and hemispherical flash files. It’s fully automated, fast and accurate. The turntable holds up to 25lbs and the system takes between 4 and 200 pictures per 360-degree rotation at 10 unique angles from 0 to 90°.
The Ortery Real3D software, included with the Photosimile 5000, creates full spherical, hemispherical and cylindrical animations with mouse control, image tagging and deep zoom capabilities to 14X. Resulting product animations are comparable to interacting with the physical product.
Even though this product is geared towards the office environment, this could be a great tool for the professional photographer working out of their studio. If you do a lot of table top product shots for your clients, this system could help automate and speed up the process allowing you to get more done in a shorter time period. With the added capabilities of creating 3D animations from the still images, it would give you some additional services to offer your clients. See the show notes for images and a demo video to see it in action.
PRESS RELEASE
The World’s First “Office Photography Machine” Now Shipping
Ortery Technologies Begins Shipping Photosimile 5000
2010 International CES
LAS VEGAS–Ortery Technologies, Inc. (South Hall Booth 32036)- Imagine walking up to a new office device, placing an object inside, and seconds later walking away with a professional photo for immediate use in all print, web and email communications. Taking its name from “facsimile”, Photosimile 5000 is the next generation imaging device for the office.
“Photosimile 5000 offers everyone the opportunity to communicate more effectively using photos
and animations”
This PC-controlled desktop photography studio, integrates a 28 x 28 x 28” light box (featuring 6500K daylight bulbs, an automated camera positioning system and built-in turntable) with a Canon SLR camera and powerful workflow software to simplify and automate business photography. With Photosimile 5000, anyone can create professional, shadow-free pictures ideal for web, print and daily business communication. No experience necessary!
The camera and light box connect to a PC via USB. Photosimile 5000 software controls the studio, camera location, turntable movement, camera settings, picture taking and processing workflows. Simply place an item inside, compose using Preview, Zoom and Crop commands in the software. Click Snap and the picture automatically downloads to the PC screen in seconds. Users can annotate, mask, email and batch process images with regards to file name, size, and resolution, watermarking and saving.
In addition to still photos, Photosimile 5000 creates professional 360-degree and hemispherical flash files. It’s fully automated, fast and accurate. The turntable holds up to 25lbs and the system takes between 4 and 200 pictures per 360-degree rotation at 10 unique angles from 0 to 90°.
Ortery Real3D, included in Photosimile 5000 for image composition, creates full spherical, hemispherical and cylindrical animations with mouse control, image tagging and deep zoom capabilities to 14X. Resulting product animations are comparable to interacting with the physical product.
The Custom Define feature allows users to create and re-use custom sequences of photos at different camera positions and turntable locations.
“Photosimile 5000 offers everyone the opportunity to communicate more effectively using photos and animations,” said Sam Shearer Managing Director, Ortery Technologies, Inc. “It was built to enhance daily business communication, but the ability to automate three dimensional image capture and digital presentation also has groundbreaking implications for ecommerce.”
Photosimile 5000 runs on Windows XP, Vista and Window 7.
Founded February 2003 with offices in California and Taiwan, Ortery invents business photography automation solutions. www.ortery.com
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Hello Trevor
Let me start by saying that it’s been great listening to you on the New Media Photographer podcast
I know they are billing this Photographer-in-a-Box systems like as a first of it.s kind but these have bee around for some time now. Although this one does have a turntable.
These are good when an exec needs to show a damaged bolt or something to a supplier half way across the planet but other then that they are quite useless. The shooting area is WAY to small for anything much bigger then a pack of smokes.
I also like how they don’t list how much it costs. I would render to guess it goes for anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000
I’m sorry, but these things make me laugh. They are cute and collect dust real well sitting in the corner, which is where they usually end up.
Keep up the great work
Hey Von, thanks for your kind words and I’m glad you’re enjoying the news segments.
There are a lot of table top studio setups out there, I’ve even tried a few myself. Ultimately I ended up going back to a traditional table top setup because of the flexibility of lighting and the floor space required for a permanent setup.
The Photosimile 5000 is not for everyone. A pro photographer can easily setup a table top with a backdrop, lights, reflectors and fire off a few shots in a matter of minutes. I think the ideal candidate for this type of product is a company that’s hiring outside photographers to do simple “shadowless” product shots for catalog work. In the long run they would probably save money purchasing this equipment and having an intern run it.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see photographers lose work to a piece of equipment, but on the other hand, how much profit would you really be making doing the type of photography that this machine was intended for? In today’s economy it’s all about the bottom line, why spend more on the outside if you can do it in house cheaper. Personally I would rather focus my photography efforts on more lucrative projects and let someone or something else take care of the mechanical stuff.
Trevor