Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing

Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing(bouncingredball.com)

39 points by markup 16 years ago | 13 comments

aswanson 16 years ago |

This and the linked page don't show how, only that he did it. They should have went into more detail.

ajross 16 years ago | |

He mounted the lens so that its focal plane was on the scanner element, and sealed the thing to keep light out. That's pretty much it. It's a clever hack, notwithstanding the 4-5 second "exposure" time.

This kind of setup would actually be useful in practice for things like rare book scanning, where you can't flatten the pages for fear of damaging the object.

mhb 16 years ago | | |

Google's method of scanning books without flattening them: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-se...

jcl 16 years ago | | |

Some other scanning camera attempts:

http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras/current/index.html

http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html

davi 16 years ago | | |

A little more info, in English:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498

ComputerGuru 16 years ago | | |

But how does that accomplish a 130 MP? What's special about a scanner vs a camera that lets it do that?

pierrefar 16 years ago |

We need a name for this thing. Something like scancam or scamera.

asciilifeform 16 years ago | |

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Scanmera

elai 16 years ago | |

Large format camera scanning backs have been around for quite a while, which is what this is. Big difference is that there is far less noise in the commercial versions.

jcl 16 years ago | |

This guy called his a scancam:

http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/

dc2k08 16 years ago | |

both their domains are for sale too.

abdulhaq 16 years ago |

For his next trick he's building a 160GB SD card...