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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whooooooooo!

  2. laser mouse -- poor man's scanner by Douglas+Simmons · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This reminds me about that article a couple weeks back about a guy who figured out how to use a common laser mouse as a "ghetto" scanner. Has anyone successfully fired that project up?

  3. Flatbed scanner on its side by PCheese · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This guy has made some interesting images with a flatbed scanner turned on its side.

    He moves as it scans, creating six-fingered hands, spiraling bodies, and other intriguing distortions.

    http://corz.org/imaging/charged_coupled_device/

  4. awww by atari2600 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Abigail Durrant - she's so pretty :) - i am convinced about the technology

  5. Re:Mexa-pixels? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's actually a rehash of a GW bush joke.

    "sir we lost a brazillian soldier in iraq today"

    "damn, that's bad.. how many is a brazillion again?"

  6. You don't have permission to access / on this serv by osoese · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    thanks