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Joel Johnson

AT 3:44 PM
Monday June 8, 2009

Cameras • HOWTO and DIY

japan • scancam • scannercam • scanners

Making a 130-megapixel camera from a flatbed scanner and an old camera lens

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What do you get when you combine an old Epson flatbed scanner, a 50mm Canon lens, and a little elbow grease? A 130-megapixel camera perfect for shooting ridiculously high-rez photos of your desk.

The project is the work of this fellow, an amateur photographer with a lovely eye for light.

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Dean W. Armstrong

#1 – 4:57 PM June 8, 2009

Join the fun at http://www.flickr.com/groups/632239@N24/ -- the scanner photography project. It's very satisfying to make your own camera.

Anonymous Anonymous

#2 – 8:15 PM June 8, 2009

brilliant. besides the urgent desire to build my own, im enjoying the adventure of free-scrolling around the full-sized image on flikr.

zapan

#3 – 9:30 PM June 8, 2009

This thing begs for a steampunk casemod. I mean, sure it is Hi-res, but also slow, so for portraits, it requires a tripod and a photographer that yells "stay still !".

dculberson

#4 – 6:24 AM June 9, 2009

Totally sweet. I wonder if he could do a double scan of the same area, maybe after moving the camera just a hair, and use image stabilization techniques to get rid of grain and fringing? Imagine a completely noise free 130 megapixel image.

Anonymous Anonymous

#5 – 6:24 AM June 9, 2009

ISTM that what you REALLY want is to use the scanner parts to make rotating panoramic camera like the CIRKUT. And yes, brass gears and a leatherette case would fit right in.

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 1:37 PM June 11, 2009

impressive! too bad no one posted a pic in full res so far. would have been interesting to see the quality. i have an 88 megapixel image. the detail is just astounding. 130 megapixel must be jawdroppingly awesome. that is, if there is no noise in the picture

kaka

#7 – 12:42 AM August 24, 2009

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kaka

#8 – 12:42 AM August 24, 2009

detail is just astounding. 130 megapixel must be jawdroppingly awesome. that is, if there is no noise in the picture
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kaka

#9 – 12:43 AM August 24, 2009

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kaka

#10 – 12:45 AM August 24, 2009

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