Which type of studio is best for in-house product photo shoots?

Are you asking yourself the question of produce your photos and animations in-house, but it is difficult for you to find THE packshot photo studio adapted to your products. Discover our practical guide.

An FAQ about photo studios dedicated to product photography

What is a packshot photo studio?

It is a complete, software-controlled shooting system. It makes it possible to carry out a standardized production of your internal product photographs and/ or animations of 360° products.

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Why use this type of system? What are its advantages?

Producing product photographs and animations in-house meets the requirements of different needs. This simplifies the logistics and avoid going back and forth. This is the case for bulky or valuable products. Many users, e-retailers or R&D or Quality Control departments, use it. That to be more than reagents for their internal or external communication. Depending on the volume of products to be shot, The amortization and ROI prove to be interesting in the more or less long term.

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What are the features of these studios?

They are designed for standardize and facilitate shooting. With, for example, the camera settings set from the software and visible in “live view” on the monitor. The automatic image clipping on one or more subjects at the same time, camera settings... Are other functionalities that assist and simplify the user's task.

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Real-time configuration of the forecast on a packshot software

Packshot photo studio: at the service of digital product imaging

From the light photo table to the packshot 3D photo studio systems

The backlit light table

• What types of visuals: flat photographs (flatlay).
• For which shootings produced? Clothes, accessories, leather goods, high-tech objects, art objects, cosmetics, small tools...
• A key advantage? Photographing several products simultaneously, Measuring products via the software interface and export visuals separately.

The controlled turntable with cyclo bottom and lighting system

• What types of visuals? Photographs (flat or vertical), 360° animations, Hemispherical 3D with photo arm system.
• For which shootings produced? Furniture, clothing on models, two-wheelers, sports equipment, sports equipment, household appliances, household appliances, Hi-Fi devices, decoration, bulky technical parts, musical instruments (guitar, subwoofer, DJ turntable)...
• A key advantage? The shooting of bulky and/or bulky products.

The backlit photo box

• What types of visuals? Photographs (flat or vertical — depending on the camera locations available on the housing), possibilities depending on the different studios sold on the market to take photos on pure white background, cut out, of 360° animations, in hemispherical 3D with photo arm system.
• For which shootings produced? A “standard size” case makes it possible to photograph many types of products. It ranges from shoes to Shooting for bottles of wine and spirits. This also concerns parapharmacy products and medical equipment, small and medium-sized mechanical parts (car headlights)...
• A key advantage: the size/size ratio that makes it a modular studio. It is also a concentration of technologies adapted to numerous products.

The compact mini studio or photo studio — backlit box

What types of visuals? Photographs of objects (flat or vertical — depending on the camera locations available on the case). Possibilities, depending on the various studios sold on the market, to create animations in 360° shooting.

For which shootings produced? Cosmetic products, watches, jewelery, jewelry, parts and small electronic devices (printed circuits, smartphones...),. But also optical and photographs and 360° animations of glasses...

A key advantage? Easily transportable It is generally not necessary to dedicate a large amount of space to it.

3D shooting systems

Two possibilities for produce 3D visuals. The first is the studio dedicated to object modeling Or the arm equipped with several cameras. They can be combined with a controlled turntable. These systems make it possible to create spherical or hemispherical 3D animations of objects.

What PackshotCreator offers you

• The Lumina shooting tablePad+, the backlit light table. It's a two in one photo studio. It is thus possible to flip the table by transforming it into a backlit studio background. This system, like the following ones, is controlled by the PackshotCreator photo software. The LuminaPad is compatible with Packshot turntablesSpin (below) for creating 360 animations
• The controlled turntable with cyclo bottom and lighting system. The 360 Packshot turntableSpin, is controlled by software and its tray can support products up to 320 kilos.
• The 360 Packshot Photo StudioCreator R3 LT. It is a modular and backlit photo box with a last-generation synchronized turntable to automate shooting. It is therefore configured to accommodate a maximum of products.
• The mini studio or compact photo studio — backlit box. The PackshotCreator photo studio Mini Mark II has Full Led lighting. It is modular in 3 separate areas. Locations are also dedicated to flat and vertical shooting small objects.
• PackshotCreator also offers a wide range of studios and equipment for your 3D shootings. That goes from the studio MaestroBot 3D, fully robotized, at Packshot 3D arm systemSphere X5.