My Custom Made Single-Axis Photography Gimbal and Adaptive Lighting Gantry System

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I hope you guys are okay with a joke title.
I use this rotating platform to take pictures of my small custom made items. The diameter is 11 inches. Each slab is 3/4" thick MDF. The slabs are not secured together, the top one just sits on the bottom one, aligned with a poplar dowel.
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It's how I made this:
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this is great, really. For model presentation, it's awesome. I don't know if you plan to use it for actual photogrametry application, but if that's the case, the subject and light source(s) have to remain in the same relative position, it's the camera that is supposed to move around the subject, not the the other way around. I have already thought about building a similar rig for photogrametry, and the solutions I came up with are eithervto make the camera rotate around the object, or attach the light rig to the rotating platform (not practical), or (probably the best solution imo) have a donut shaped neon on top to create an homeogeneous light from any angle. This way, rotating the object instead of the camera would not mater much because the lighting would be pretty much the same. Or, simpler, just do it outside during an overcast day

Edit: Here is a link demonstrating what I mean. So it's just about multiplying light sources so light comes from everywhere and thus rotating the object instead of the camera does not really matter

https://leakeyfoundation.org/a-simp...-creation-of-3d-artifact-models-in-the-field/

http://www.stporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Porter_et_al_2016_AiAP.pdf
 
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OlivierC said:
this is great, really. For model presentation, it's awesome. I don't know if you plan to use it for actual photogrametry application, but if that's the case, the subject and light source(s) have to remain in the same relative position, it's the camera that is supposed to move around the subject, not the the other way around. I have already thought about building a similar rig for photogrametry, and the solutions I came up with are eithervto make the camera rotate around the object, or attach the light rig to the rotating platform (not practical), or (probably the best solution imo) have a donut shaped neon on top to create an homeogeneous light from any angle. This way, rotating the object instead of the camera would not mater much because the lighting would be pretty much the same. Or, simpler, just do it outside during an overcast day

Edit: Here is a link demonstrating what I mean. So it's just about multiplying light sources so light comes from everywhere and thus rotating the object instead of the camera does not really matter

https://leakeyfoundation.org/a-simp...-creation-of-3d-artifact-models-in-the-field/

http://www.stporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Porter_et_al_2016_AiAP.pdf
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Not doing photogrametry.
 
my bad, I misread the title, I read photogrammetry instead of photography. None the less, if one day you want to give it a shot, your setup is already halfway there, just some extra lights
 
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