The Ashmolean Museum’s dome in Oxford

After many years of making RTI systems for museums we have a good design which enables fast capture of objects using a digital SLR and our lighting dome.

76 or 128 high power LEDs (1000 lumen) are controlled by our custom controller which triggers the camera. After setting the exposure time on the controller a full sequence is captured automatically in under one minute.

We have developed a vibration-free camera and dome mount – this lifts the dome well above the surface used to make it easier to setup objects.

People typically use open-source RTI software for calibration and viewing. Pressing the Go button on our controller captures all the images on to the camera card which is then downloaded to a PC and an RTI image is produced in around a minute.