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.
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