I had an idea tonight.

I saw this site: www.magictoolbox.com/magic360/

I'd like to do something like this, its a small part of a masterplan for world domination.

The problem is that I'd need to get an automated spinning susan and a camera and I'd like to automate the process as much as possible - I'd like to have the ability to photograph hundreds of products in a home studio with the same result.

There are 36 images in the example above - each taken at 10 degree intervals.

Below is an example of what I'd like to achieve:

Say I had an automated lazy suzan that I'd put the product on and it rotated once in 6 minutes (360 seconds) and I had a camera that had the ability to take a still photo every 10 seconds - that would give me what I need - 36 photos at 10degree intervals.

Where would I find a lazy suzan device that I could program to spin at a defined speed?

What camera could I program to take shots at defined intervals?

Is there a better way to get the same output - ie video the product spinning and take every nth frame?

Outsource it to Manilla or Bangkok

stuk said...

Outsource it to Manilla or Bangkok

Not possible, I'd never get the products back

attatch an encoder and 0 degree calibration sensor to the shaft of the lazy susan, Digital/Analog input to PLC using set angle/process variable on the Logic, to send an digital/analog output to camera trigger.
As long as you can set the shutter speed fast enough you could take photos at any predetermind angle/time set up in the PLC logic

This was posted some time ago;

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/Cheap-and-cheerful-GoPro-time-lapse-pan/?SearchTerms=cheap,and,cheerful

Don't know if you can use something like it, but it's on the cheap if it will work

Hi Adolf,
This stuff has been around for a while.
We used to do it with cars in an infinate white studio and the cars were put on a giant lazy Susan. This app is ok but there are apps out there that give you 360' vertical movement as well as horizontal- which allows you to rotate the object completely around to see the top and bottom.
In terms of triggering a shutter release with a minor increment of movement, do a web search for Mumford Time Machine Photography. These guys build all sorts of timelapse, micro/ slow motor and trigger mechanisms.

No,

but it was a good invention, and I'd love to go back to Tonga. Thanks for the vid all the same.

adolf said...

I had an idea tonight.

I saw this site: www.magictoolbox.com/magic360/

I'd like to do something like this, its a small part of a masterplan for world domination.

The problem is that I'd need to get an automated spinning susan and a camera and I'd like to automate the process as much as possible - I'd like to have the ability to photograph hundreds of products in a home studio with the same result.

There are 36 images in the example above - each taken at 10 degree intervals.

Below is an example of what I'd like to achieve:

Say I had an automated lazy suzan that I'd put the product on and it rotated once in 6 minutes (360 seconds) and I had a camera that had the ability to take a still photo every 10 seconds - that would give me what I need - 36 photos at 10degree intervals.

Where would I find a lazy suzan device that I could program to spin at a defined speed?

What camera could I program to take shots at defined intervals?

Is there a better way to get the same output - ie video the product spinning and take every nth frame?

1.- Old microwave
2.- Your looking for an intervalometer, or a camera that has 1 integrated. A lot of cheap point & shoots have them... Samsung... I'm sure there an app for on too.
3.- Arduino

You know they sell whiteboxes... with manual wheels.

Im a bit simple but why dont you just take a video of the item while it spins? Then it would just be a case of editing the footage. Given the amount of good quality go pro footage on here Im sure some one can point you to the best editing software?

Davage said...

Im a bit simple but why dont you just take a video of the item while it spins? Then it would just be a case of editing the footage. Given the amount of good quality go pro footage on here Im sure some one can point you to the best editing software?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking originally and I may revisit that idea and just take every nth frame.

I want to make a web app so the output would be 36 images at 10degree intervals. My hurdle was finding something that would spin slowly enough and that I could control - but I think that's now solved.

These type of projects are so much fun to do, when the weather is miserable, stoking the fire, while I'm waiting for the slow cooker to produce some lamb vindaloo tonight - which I got to say smells fantastic.

^^^ Ted the Kiwi, you get a green thumb from me for your 'free-cycling', good on ya

Good to hear Adolf......by the way my garage is very clean at the moment - the GF made me clean it last weekend - I could have located it in seconds!!!!

I look forward to seeing your contraption in action. I put together a time lapse setup for the go pro using an egg timer as suggested above and have been blown away by its results.

evlPanda said...

1. Buy a light box (or make one)
2. Take photo
3. Put hand in light box. Turn product.
4. Repeat 2-3



You're totally kidding about the motor and stuff, right?

No,

Human intervention means human error.

I'm working towards automation. Picture this scenario.

I put a product in the centre of my lazy susan. I set the lazy susan to spin at 0.83333 RPM using my windscreen wiper motor and this speed regulator. I set up my iphone app, which I learnt can be triggered with sound, to take a photo every two seconds.

At the desired point I'll clap my hand which will trigger the iphone to start doing it's suff - after 72 seconds I should have 32 photos at 10degree intervals - do the maths.

I want to make this so even a backpacker can pump out 50 or 60 products a day; Thanks Anneka for your help today, that wasn't hard - tomorrow you have 70 products to photograph.


Anneka