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I modded a scanner into a camera. This is ‘drake V’
(lemmy.world)
Taken on a small group of Islands in the Oslo fjord, called Hvasser. A 15 meter peice of fabric playing in the wind, scanned right to left in 21 seconds. Got really lucky with the clouds this time, allowing a single beam of sunlight in as a highlight.
I mean this in the most positive way... I don't believe you until you can show us how you did it
The image is lovely, but easily faked. I've been taking photographs with weird things for years and I still can't get my head around this.
Show and tell and you have my adoration.
I'll wait
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It’s a canon Lide 30 scanner at its core. You have to remove the light source (a tiny RGB LED) and a pinhole array from the front of the sensor. Then I used a dremel to widen the slit the sensor looks through, to deal with some pretty severe vignetting. The optical assembly is made from foam board, gaffers tape and an acrylic lens liberated from a regular magnifying glass. I use a software called VueScan to perform the actual scan."
Yeah. That's pretty cool. Have the adoration you crafty fox.
Hey, thanks!
I get you, the guy at the print-shop I use has asked me several times if my art is artificially generated.
I don’t know what you expect as evidence, but I’ll try.
This is a picture from my last exhibition, and the box there is the scanner-camera.
The fabric is 15 meters by 145cm, I have friends holding it stretched out of frame at both sides.
This is another shot from the same shoot. I think it’s very dynamic, but I like the ‘sunbeam’ from the original post better.
And this is a still from a video I took of my friend playing around With the fabric in the wind before she jumped down from the boulder I made her stand on in order to get the original shot.
I hope that covers it. The wavy pattern is due to the linear sampling of the scanner, and the play of motion over time.
Oh man, I thought that wavy pattern was somehow mountains, given that you were at the fjords, not the fabric. This whole image is incredible, fantastically done!
What OP did was produce a functioning scanning back camera out of a pile of junk, which is definitely an achievement that deserves some props.
These types of mechanisms were more popular in the 90's and early 2000's before we'd nailed the ability to produce high resolution image sensors. Using quite rudimentary existing technology you can generate massive high pixel count images provided, of course, that your subject matter has the decency to hold still. These types of things were used widely for high resolution product photography and landscape shots destined to be reprinted in large formats.
Thanks for the explanation!
I can imagine a focused lens projecting onto a white sheet on the scanner bed, then scanned. Pretty neat imo
The image is projected directly onto the scanner’s sensor. Using a ground glass plate would also work, but is not necessary for my technique.
It’s a delightful image, I love the texture, and the the technique is innovative.
Thanks!
(However, I like your idea, that seems like a cool way to make pictures)