#cameramator

It’s a great day here at the office! We are all smiles over here. Our month-long Kickstarter campaign has finally come to an end and we were able to exceed our $80,000 goal by $23,368, which gives us a total of  $103,368! Again, a big sincere thank you to all of our backers who believed in our vision for your support and great feedback.

The majority of the collected funds will go towards the manufacturer and the production run, while a small portion of the funds will be used to expand our testing lab (to include more cameras in our line of supported devices) and to develop a fully functioning Android app.

The journey is far from over and this is just the beginning. In the upcoming month, we are finalizing CameraMator’s tooling and design. We will keep you updated on all changes to design or scheduling. In the meantime, we encourage all feedback and suggestions regarding CameraMator. We hope to have units readily available by November.

Just wanted to share a few things that people have been saying about CameraMator:

“CameraMator plays an invaluable role during a shoot, offering unsurpassed collaboration tools for communicating with creative teams onsite and offsite with the ability to share and annotate images in real time. Whether it is the AD confirming you’ve captured the vision, or the DA archiving the image and uploading it to the re-toucher with annotations, the app facilitates a smoother workflow, fast turnaround and happy clients.” - David Rugh, Southern California Portrait Photographer

“CameraMator is a very well-designed product. I was able to walk around my studio with the iPad in my hand, making adjustments as I worked. What’s great is that even without a WiFi router, the iPad and my Mac worked with each other. The speed of the image transfer from my camera to my iPad was impressive. It saved me so much time. And the pinch-to-zoom operation was very smooth and useful. Overall this is an amazing piece of technology that will become a permanent part of my studio from now on.” - Linus of Inimitable Photography

“I just tried out the CameraMator on my iPad; it is a truly amazing app. As a professional artist and educator, I give live art demonstrations all the time. With CameraMator, it took me a total of 30 minutes of setup and live demo and I have a professional time lapse demonstration of my watercolor technique. Simple to use, CameraMator works with my DSLR camera to capture high-resolution shots. It is a great tool for every professional artist and faculty member.” - Natasha Shoro, Professional Artist/Adjunct Professor

We’ve officially done it! We’ve reached our $80,000 goal with 6 days yet to go of our Kickstarter campaign! A sincere thank you to EACH and EVERY one of our backers, we couldn’t have done it without you. We are so excited over here at headquarters, but this is just the beginning.

A lot of you are probably wondering why you should have the CameraMator device or include it in your sessions. What is so great about wireless tethered photography? Well, with mobility and time constraints lifted, the possibilites of your session are endless and completely up to you. You can shoot and share with ease, and you have more control than ever over your photos.

With CameraMator’s instant preview and sharing capabilities, you can:

Use CameraMator to instantly upload your photos to your viewing device with no messy wires or cables involved

Preview and edit your images instantly while you shoot

Place your camera in a ‘hard-to-reach’ setting in order to take a good shot and still be able to control your images remotely via your device

Have faster, more efficient photo shoots that gets the client buy-in before you wrap the session

Save time and money by avoiding potentially expensive re-takes

Receive immediate feedback of focus, exposure and color. This is a great help for stylists and make-up artists to see when they need to make some corrections.

Instantly back up images as they are automatically written to a hard drive.

We are proud to say that CameraMator has featured articles on several tech and photography websites. Thanks for the coverage guys!

Check out the links below to read them:

Mashable

PC World

Peta Pixel

Popular Photography

CNET Australia

With 23 more days to go, we are at 45% of our $80,000 goal. That's just about half way!!! A big shout out and thank you to our backers. You guys are awesome; we appreciate each and every single one of you. Thank you for all the encouraging words so far and for believing in our project.