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Homemade Digital Cameras
Michael Golembewski writes "For the past three years, I've been taking apart cheap secondhand flatbed scanners and turning them into homemade large format digital cameras. They are well over 100 mexapixel in resolution, and produce results that are both similar to and significantly different from traditional digital and conventional cameras."
Well, well. Since the quality exceeds those provided by "consumer-level" equipment, how are these guys going to deal with the Digital Transition Content Security Act?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I will need a pickup truck to take this along on my next vacation.
"That is some eerie art! Is your initial part of your last name really pronounced "Golem" by chance?"
Talk about ADD...
Oh, and I guess he's using the Dark side of the duct tape?
Salvador Dali meets a camera. Brilliant stuff!
What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable gipsy obscenity?
Sticking 25+ mb images on your server and submitting it for a slashdotting.
Still, quite cool. He did a good job of describing the effects - made it informative, yet simple enough for most people to understand.
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"They are well over 100 mexapixel in resolution..."
Does that mean each pixel can hold 100 mexicans worth of optical information?
First, what does [apple]-shift-3 do? Apparently in Panther it takes a screenshot, but why is that cool enough to get tattooed on your neck?
And second, why on earth is this so hot? Mmmmf.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
I'd love to try some high res landscapes though
If you want to do landscape photography with this, then you've missed the point entirely. =P (Unless you're talking about clouds or something)
I'm sorry. The number you have reached is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again.
Putting aside for a moment the artistic effects, this project could be turned in a distortion-free ultra-cheap ultra-hi-res digital camera. You only need to "fix" the image so that it stands still while the scanner works. For example, you could expose to light a plate covered with some photo-sensitive chemical (like, for example, a silver halide) and then putting that in front of the scanner. I wonder why nobody thought of this before...
Nuffsaid
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Then you should ask for your money back; that's pathetic.
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Assembler instructions... ADD AX,BX ?
Site temporarily down - too many people looking! Sorry... I'll sort it out soon. Mike
Is there anyway to disassemble a scanner to create a fast server?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Taking apart a scanner and assembling a device to bring down his web server. Oh, wait...
LDA #AD Some assembly required.....
He could've also used tinfoil, which as an added bonus, would have also prevented the subliminable messages from reaching his optic nerves...