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Features:

  • Most other digital photobooths use video cameras, which have horrible color tone and no flash. Photoboof uses high quality digital stills cameras so it takes infinitely better pictures, and lets you use a flash for a traditional photobooth feel.
  • Works with almost any Canon Powershot camera, almost any Canon DSLR camera, Nikon DSLR camera, or, if you don't mind lower quality pictures and no flash, any USB webcam.
  • Saves all the hi-res pics to your harddrive, both as individual pics and as strips.
  • Works with most printers, printing extremely high quality photo strips to either 2.13" x 6" strips (inkjet only), 4" x 6" strips (inkjets and dye sublimation printers), or larger paper that keeps that same aspect ratio. The prints probably look better than any you've seen from a photobooth. See the hardware section for our printer recommendations.
  • If you use 4"x6" paper, Photoboof can also print in a 2x2 picture grid, or print two strips side-by-side, or a 2x2 picture grid with your logo on just the right or left and right (see the screenshots page for examples).
  • Can be triggered with keys on the keyboard, with mouse buttons, with any joystick button, from some other program or script, using a Griffin Powermate, or using buttons attached to your serial port (see the hardware section for easy instructions for making the serial port button).
  • Optionally displays the pictures fullscreen as they're taken on either monitor 1 or monitor 2. So you can have monitor 2 visible from inside your booth, and use monitor 1 for status messages or even regular computer use. And you can easily add your logo to the display (see the screenshots page).
  • Built-in webserver lets you display the pics on other computers in your network or over the internet.
  • Can upload each strip via FTP to a website.
  • Supports plugins that let you run your own scripts at various times in the photo sequence. This lets you use it with things like Flickr, or receive text messages when there's a paper jam, etc.
  • Very fast: the prints are ready about 20 seconds after the people leave the booth.
  • Highly configurable: you can turn printing on/off easily, control the delay between pictures, put your logo in the margins of the strip, and much etc.
  • Can be put into "auto repeat mode" for load testing, or turn off printing and it's a webcam with a twist.
  • All preferences are saved to a text file for easy editing, saving, copying, and backing up. No registry involvement at all.
  • By default the pics are vivid color, but can also take black & white or sepia pictures.
  • Easy installer.
  • User forum for sharing tips on hardware, booth building, paper and ink supplies, etc.
  • Fairly low system requirements, should work on any computer running Windows 2000 or XP (note that Vista isn't yet supported), on anything from a Pentium III on up. Recommended: 1 ghz or better processor, with two monitors and a Canon Powershot, ideally a Powershot S2 or S3.
  • Free tech support by email or the user forum.
  • Free upgrades for all registered users.
  • Full featured demo available on the downloads page.
  • If you need a feature that isn't listed, email us and we'd be glad to incorporate it for you.
  • We can also build out your booth structure if you'd like.

 

Caveats:

  • If you're using a Canon Powershot camera, you'll need the third-party program PSRemote, which costs $50. And unfortunately PSRemote doesn't save the pictures to your harddrive when running as a demo, so you need to buy it to try it with Photoboof.
  • For now we're using Irfanview as the engine for our printing. For licensing reasons you have to download and install that yourself, but don't worry, it's free and easy.
  • There's no gui yet to edit the configuration file, so you have to edit configuration.ini manually. But it's very easy, and we'll help you with any problems you have.

 

    
         

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