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Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing
- pierrefar 17y agoWe need a name for this thing. Something like scancam or scamera.
- asciilifeform 17y agohttp://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Scanmera http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Scanmera
- dc2k08 17y agoboth their domains are for sale too.
- jcl 17y agoThis guy called his a scancam: http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/
- elai 17y agoLarge format camera scanning backs have been around for quite a while, which is what this is. Big difference is that there is far less noise in the commercial versions.
- aswanson 17y agoThis and the linked page don't show how, only that he did it. They should have went into more detail.
- ajross 17y agoHe mounted the lens so that its focal plane was on the scanner element, and sealed the thing to keep light out. That's pretty much it. It's a clever hack, notwithstanding the 4-5 second "exposure" time. This kind of setup would actually be useful in practice for things like rare book scanning, where you can't flatten the pages for fear of damaging the object.
- davi 17y agoA little more info, in English: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498
- mhb 17y agoGoogle's method of scanning books without flattening them: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-sees-infrared-in-plan-to-scan-worlds-books.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-se...
- jcl 17y agoSome other scanning camera attempts: http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/current/index.html http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/current/index.html http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
- ComputerGuru 17y agoBut how does that accomplish a 130 MP? What's special about a scanner vs a camera that lets it do that?
- TJensen 17y agoSize. Scanner is 8"x10" or so. The actual DPI of the scanner is lower than a traditional camera CCD, but there is so much more space. Your exposure time is how long it takes the scanner to traverse a "page". Focusing seems painful.
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- abdulhaq 17y agoFor his next trick he's building a 160GB SD card...