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Homemade Digital Cameras

Posted by samzenpus on from the lie-down-on-the-camera dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Amazing tech skills with art value! by adyus · · Score: 5, Funny


    "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?

  2. A Modern Salvador Dali by CarnivorousCoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Salvador Dali meets a camera. Brilliant stuff!

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  3. Mexa-pixels? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They are well over 100 mexapixel in resolution..."
    Does that mean each pixel can hold 100 mexicans worth of optical information?

    1. Re:Mexa-pixels? by wildsurf · · Score: 5, Funny

      "They are well over 100 mexapixel in resolution..."
      Does that mean each pixel can hold 100 mexicans worth of optical information?

      That's nothing. My camera has a brazilian pixels.

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