Slit-scan

[Hamish Gill]

A few years ago I read about people converting flatbed scanners in to cameras ...
Very interesting effects can be achieved as they capture the image line at a time ...
I tried to make one my self but couldn't quite get it to work before I lost the info on how to do it ... Shelved the project but once in a while think about giving it another go ... Anyway, whilst thinking about it the other day it occurred to me that there might be an app that does something similar ...
Well there is

Slit-scan

Here's a shot I just took of my 2 budgies walking along there perch

Bit odd, but I've seen some very interesting images taken with the scanner version so I think it has some scope for getting some good shots with a bit of practice!

 

[Thomas brookes]

Sounds cool!! I'll have a pop

 

[Hamish Gill]

Check this out

 

[Larry Bolch]

Both Seitz and BetterLight make backs that work exactly on that principle, at about the lowest megapixel cost of any high-resolution device. And the are very high-resolution indeed. BetterLight has a rotator device that lets you park the scanning element in the middle of the image and rotate the camera to shoot panoramas. Panoscan has a digital panoramic camera that works this way. As a DIY project, I expect it would take a whole lot of work for minimal results, though entirely possible.

I have a WideLuxe 140° film camera with which I have produced some interesting results, rotating the camera while making the exposure, or wiggling it up and down to create a horizon with waves. The new Fuji X100 is my digital panoramic camera, but it does stitching of a bunch of individual frames, so the result of any movement is just mismatching stitches. It appears that the phone actually does a slit-scan. Interesting.

 

[Paul Lange]

From an artistic point of view I bet you could get past the gimmick and come up with some interesting stuff. How about a shot keeping the camera at a fixed point in front of someone and moving them about or taking each "strip" of a scene at different times in the day?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Ooooo interesting - I love the fact that there's 'an App for that' LOL

 

[Hamish Gill]

Both Seitz and BetterLight make backs that work exactly on that principle, at about the lowest megapixel cost of any high-resolution device. And the are very high-resolution indeed. BetterLight has a rotator device that lets you park the scanning element in the middle of the image and rotate the camera to shoot panoramas. Panoscan has a digital panoramic camera that works this way. As a DIY project, I expect it would take a whole lot of work for minimal results, though entirely possible.

I have a WideLuxe 140° film camera with which I have produced some interesting results, rotating the camera while making the exposure, or wiggling it up and down to create a horizon with waves. The new Fuji X100 is my digital panoramic camera, but it does stitching of a bunch of individual frames, so the result of any movement is just mismatching stitches. It appears that the phone actually does a slit-scan. Interesting.

http://www.betterlight.com/products4X5.html

WOW ... 138,720,000 pixel rez ... ooooooooooo

yes, lot of word ... it involved taking apart a canon scanner... removing the lens ... ... many other things ... i was trying to do it with an ohp lens in a big black box

this is what i was trying to do

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/weekend-project-scanner-c.html
http://golembewski.awardspace.com/

one for you paul maybe? your good at this sorta stuff??

here is a similar thing

http://www.stockholmviews.com/diyphotogear/scannercamera.html