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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 4 points 2 years ago

That's actually pretty fascinating, thanks.

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