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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.
"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?
Sigh. Only on slashdot. Who cares what [apple]-shift-3 does when this picture is only two pictures to the left.
I mean, there's a freakin' G5 box in that picture. Those things are awesome ; )
Maybe not
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
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...