Orangemonkie has announced its biggest-ever portable photo studio: Foldio4. The Foldio range has been around for 10 years and provides creators, brands, and online sellers with a hassle-free, foldable photo studio. The seamless white backdrop and optimal lighting creates the ideal environment for product photography, enabling users to take professional-looking product shots to elevate their business profile.
Foldio4 takes things to the max with a huge 39-inch shooting area, making it ideal for photographing larger items like bags, laptops and lifestyle scenes. The space is easily large enough to house Orangemonkie's Foldio360 Smart Turntable base, which allows you to easily create 360-degree interactive images.
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Part of what makes all Foldio models so special is their high-quality LED lighting design, that gives clear, even, and shadow-less illumination to the items within the studio. For Foldio4 there's a 4-channel system with independent control over the top, side and bottom lights, while the LEDs themselves have a high color rendering index score of >98 for exceptionally color-accurate illumination. Maximum brightness is 6500 lux, and the Foldio4 features a Halo Bar system for custom lighting angles.
The two lighting bars positioned at the front corners of the studio sit on magnets, making them stable yet also effortless to set up. And when you're finished shooting, the magnetic construction of the Foldio4 allows you to fold it down to just 4 inches thick in seconds.
Foldio4 is currently in the fundraising stage, with the Kickstarter campaign having gone live on June 17th. Estimated delivery is planned for September 2025, with final the retail price being $499. Early Kickstarter backers can order a Foldio4 for a Super Early Bird Price starting at $179, and I can honestly say that's really tempting (providing you accept the financial risk with backing any crowd-funded campaign).
I personally have an original Foldio and find it just as easy and effective as the marketing claims, having used it to shoot hundreds of product shots with excellent results.
