Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing

http://www.bouncingredball.com/2009/05/30/japanese-camera-buff-builds-130-megapixel-scanner-camera-for-next-to-nothing/

by markup • 17 years ago

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pierrefar• 17 years ago

We need a name for this thing. Something like scancam or scamera.

asciilifeform• 17 years ago

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Scanmera

dc2k08• 17 years ago

both their domains are for sale too.

jcl2• 17 years ago

This guy called his a scancam:

http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/

elai• 17 years ago

Large 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• 17 years ago

This and the linked page don't show how, only that he did it. They should have went into more detail.

ajross• 17 years ago

He 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• 17 years ago

A little more info, in English:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498

mhb• 17 years ago

Google's method of scanning books without flattening them: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-se...

jcl2• 17 years ago

Some other scanning camera attempts:

http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/current/index.html

http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html

ComputerGuru• 17 years ago

But how does that accomplish a 130 MP? What's special about a scanner vs a camera that lets it do that?

abdulhaq• 17 years ago

For his next trick he's building a 160GB SD card...

Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing

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