The new National Museum project needs to procure a motorised easel with a communication module for a control and integrated photography/camera system with high flexibility, which will be installed in a separate photography room in the new museum.
The easel will be used for photographing paintings of varying sizes, where the largest can be several metres. The easel/system must have functions that enable paintings to be photographed in several sections, so that all of the pictures can be put together to a picture file with very high resolution, which gives a detailed picture that shows, amongst other things, strokes of the brush and small cracks. It must be possible to use the system for photography in normal light, side light and for ultraviolet and infrared photography. It ought to be flexible, so that all types of cameras can be used and so that it is flexible for use in different types of light from different directions. The distance between the painting and camera must also be adjustable and flexible. The easel can be either wall mounted or floor mounted.
The fixings for the painting must be flexible as the frame can be crooked. It ought to be possible to tip the fixings backwards and forwards.
The easel will be assembled in a room that is 120,7 m
The optimum system will be an easel that is motorised with movement vertically and horizontally (X-Y), with the camera remaining still. The easel ought to be computer controlled with software that communicates with all camera systems and that can be programmed to control the movement of the easel and release the camera. The easel system must be able to remember/store the movements, so that they can be repeated (e.g., with different types of lighting).
Other alternatives can be a combination of a movable easel and a movable camera, or where the object stands still and the camera is moved horizontally and vertically.