The Secret of Perfect Photos
This entire Museum is possible because of one marvelous computer driven photo-taking machine called an eBox© that made it easy to take, label, size and file thousands of perfect photos.
More than 95% of the photos you’ll see here over the next few years start in this machine. The process is so easy that no photo or computer experience is needed to get perfect results.
I’ve made perfect tif, jpg, and web-ready photos with the push of a couple buttons...copies of photographs, ads, illustrations, tickets, stamps, maps, catalogs and other paper ephemera. Even better, it took all the great photos of my boxes, lighters, cutters, tools, ashtrays, premiums and other three dimensional items, things even the best scanner can’t handle.
Designed for
[1] making catalogs
[2] ebay® sellers
But also used by
[3] archivists
[4] auctioneers
[5] libraries
[6] demonstrators
[7] salesmen
[8] The Smithsonian
[9] teachers
One design professor displays student’s assignments, so her classes can evaluate others’ work. Takes the picture in the front of the room and displays it on monitors for the class .. and makes notes directly on eBox image of their work.
I’ve got 40 years of photographic experience, including teaching it at the college level, and have dreamed of owning something like this.
I bought one of the first systems imported into the country 3 years ago, and have taken 9,000+ photos. I truly love working with this system. I’m confident pictures will be great every time, I get twice as much work done in a day, and it saves my aching back.
The system includes box, lighting, computer program and some accessories to get you started. Camera is an option.
An eBox costs between $1,000 and $3,000 depending on camera and other options you choose. It works with PC only. I solved that problem by spending $1,000 on an HP PC with 160Gb external as a dedicated photo machine and archive storage. To avoid contamination, it is not hooked to the net. I connect the PC to my Mac system via Ethernet and can quickly send photos anywhere.
Worth every penny.
It’s as easy as [1] place your item in the box (above), [2] push one button to preview (above left), [3] drag-frame the area to be included in the final picture, [4] push another button and you’re done. Quick and accurate.
If you’d like more information, you can get it with a phone call directly to the importer’s top guy in the U.S. Call Sam Shearer in Southern California at (949) 337-3028 and mention you saw it in Hyman’s Cigar Museum. I’ve been an unpaid beta tester with Sam for as long as these have been around. We’re tracking whether enough people care, and deciding whether to leave this information as part of the Museum site.
Available nationwide. For information or to order:
call Sam Shearer at (949) 337-3028.
YOU GET FREE SHIPPING
anywhere in the continental U.S. (a $100 value)
if you tell Sam Tony Hyman sent you.
Setting up 3D objects for shooting can sometimes take a bit of creativity. I keep a few small heavy objects around just for that purpose.
The results are worth it. Clean. Clear. Sharp. Perfectly lit.
And oh so easy.
Actual eBox photo of the box set-up above. Total time less than 2 minutes.
, Hand made art glass pendant about the size of a ping pong ball. The artist complained he had tried many many times and set ups, but couldn’t get a good picture. I shot his jewel with clear back ground then with white then this one with black. Total time, less than 5 minutes. Artist was thrilled, ordered his own eBox for making web and print catalogs.
SAMPLE: Lettering added before saving the photo.
Other colors & type sizes can be selected.
This is an investment that really does save time and money.
A few years ago I processed ninety 35mm slide rolls through Kodak and ordered them put on CD as well, at a cost of around $80 a roll. In contrast, the eBox© and dedicated PC cost me around $3500 but I’ve taken photos that would have cost more than $20,000 to have Kodak process.
And unlike the month to six weeks to get CDs back from Kodak, I can use all photos in seconds.
I’ve taken 11,0000 perfect photos using this system. At one time I had taken more photos than any other user, but Sam told me the Smithsonian Institution has plunked an intern in front of a box working full time...and has taken 25,000 photos for their archives.
If you or your institution needs to take archival photos of documents, maps, photo .. or small 3-D items like jewelry or cigar boxes... or you’re selling regularly on ebay...
You won’t find a more useful tool.
And yes, I do get a small commission if you say you read about it here. You’ll buy the Ebox because YOU love it, not because I do. I’m just telling you about a machine that could literally change your life or the way you do business.
I’ve been selling things since I was a Cub Scout. I made my living selling for more than 20 years in every media, including on QVC but I’ve never sold anything I wasn’t enthusiastic about. I’ve always appreciated tools that did their job exceptionally well. This is one of them. And you can see the proof on nearly every exhibit in the Museum.
My working career involves a great deal of experience with libraries, museums, historical societies, college teaching, high schools, historical reconstructions... I understand problems of budget, space, conservation, using volunteers and interns, storage, archiving, as well as buying, selling, trading, exhibiting....I’ve dealt with them all and can think of hundreds of ways the eBox would be useful ...and you’ll think of even more.
Available nationwide. For information or to order:
Call Sam Shearer at (949) 337-3028 in Southern Calif.
YOU GET FREE SHIPPING
anywhere in the continental U.S. (a $100 value)
if you tell Sam Tony Hyman sent you.
Oh yes, eBox has been now renamed Photosimile ... as in facsimile...
As a publicist and designer I have a decided lack of enthusiasm for the new name. No punch and mispronounced “photo-smile” by lots of folks. But that’s OK, it makes me smile because I love what it does.
The machine that made the Museum possible
