Thursday, January 04, 2007

Photo Booths - wheeee!

Found instructions on building a booth. Have you been on instructables? Neat site.

This software would make it really easy, but the cost is $200. Worth it?


Note how you can print 2 strips of 4 photos on a standard 4 x 6 photo paper print. One for you, one for guests.

So, I think you would need:
A PC, junky and old would be ok
A USB web cam (cheap)
A photo printer, ink, and 4x6 paper
Scissors/paper cutter
Rubber cement and markers and a scrapbook for posting/signing

6 Comments:

Blogger marnie said...

awesome, I knew you could handle this project! I totally think it's worth a small investment... I was thinking of getting James a new camera for his birfday, so if we need a certain type of camera, I could get it. or maybe we could find it on craigslist. If we make a cool photo booth, I bet we could sell it for at least a couple o' hundred bucks to someone on said list of craig.

4:20 PM  
Blogger marnie said...

looks like there might be some open source (=free) software out there, or mac software...

4:29 PM  
Blogger marnie said...

or hey, how about emailing the photoboof dude and seeing if he'll rent it to us for a weekend for a couple o' bucks... he's in SF area, I think...

4:31 PM  
Blogger marnie said...

we could get someone local to build the wooden part, you could concentrate on the pc/software part. I seriously think we could sell (or even rent out) our concoction as a nice little bidness...

4:53 PM  
Blogger marnie said...

I'm in a silly mood today. :-P

4:53 PM  
Blogger marnie said...

realistically, though, it could just be an area with a digital camera on a stand, hooked up to printer - we don't need to go all crazy. but I'll let you make the call on how far to go...
profile on the knot where they had a photo area with polaroid camera and props

10:30 AM  

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