Scanner and Old Lens Used in DIY 130-Megapixel Camera
Scanner and Old Lens Used in DIY 130-Megapixel Camera
Posted 06/09/2009 at 1:26pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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While the concept of a scanner being reworked into a camera isn’t entirely new, someone creating one that can take photos at 130-megapixels is.
A yet unnamed Japanese man with some tech know-how was able to create this beastly camera by fusing a 1200 dpi Epson GT-S620 scanner and old Cannon FD 50mm lens together. He says that he chose this scanner because it has a CCD sensor, uses a camera-like lens and has LED lighting.
If you want to see photos taken by the camera, you can check out his Flickr stream here.
Image Credit: Spyuge
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niccy4513
January 08, 2011 at 12:02pm
The software is mediocre. Some of the bundled OS X software is so old it's non-native on Intel machines, fortunately you can omit that. Unlike the higher end machines you don't get Adobe's superb PDF/OCR combination (yes, once Adobe was competent), you get a much less efficient product called ABBY FineReader. Even so, it does produce PDF images with searchable OCRd text indices.See Here: desktop document scanner
quickone
June 10, 2009 at 12:08pm
Very handy if you want to enlarge the picture to put on the side of a building or perhaps cover the state of Rhode Island... I wonder how many Mb each picture is if taken in TIF.
JPmatt6
June 09, 2009 at 8:07pm
I have a lens identical to that... all I have to do now is find one of those scanners...
If only...
Cool idea though, and those are some great results he's gotten from it.
supermonkeymeat
June 09, 2009 at 4:04pm
he stated that the camera only worked for static objects, so quite a while. relatively.
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