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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 year ago

Converting a high resolution photo scanner into a large format digital camera

There's a lot that goes into it and I'm still fairly early in the process but it is possible and has been done before

I already have some lenses that will cover the whole scanner bed, it's mostly a question of power at this point

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

only thing i don't understand about it is why are you dong this

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Perhaps a huge sensor like that is good for night/astrophotography

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Not so much really, it would be more capable for like landscapes and architecture due to the time frame it'd take pictures in

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

so you're really trading long exposure time + large size for extremely high resolution, that's pretty cool actually

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Will that not just result in a terrible camera...? O.o

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surprisingly no

Such scanners can scan at incredibly high resolution

Hundreds of Megapixels in fact

The main thing the time it takes to scan the image is quite high, like 30 seconds or do

Edit: Here's an example photo from someone who did what I'm talking about.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

That's actually pretty fascinating, thanks.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's beautiful. Best of luck!

[-] roembol@lemmy.roembol.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Please do update us on your progress! This is really fascinating

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Once I finish it I'll be sharing information about it and pictures it takes on multiple photography groups across Lemmy

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