detialed?

Posted at 2:10 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by grizball

There is a couple of full resolution shots on the second page if noone saw them

Posted at 2:38 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Edd.

The Japanese-ification of “scanner” strikes me as a little strange. I would have expected a simple カ rather than キャ. Anyone qualified to comment here?

Posted at 2:48 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Zahlman

The transliteration of English to Japanese often surprises native English speakers. For example, “candy” is turned into キャンデ not カンデ; “violin” is usually written ヴァイオリン instead of バイオリン ; “shirt” becomes　シャツ and so forth. I don’t know why, but it is often the case.

Posted at 3:44 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Hacker

@zahlman

It is not strange at all. It is common practice to make the japanese pronunciation as close to the original language (within the limitation of the kana) as possible.

Posted at 3:45 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by nipponese

Here it is in more detail:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498

Posted at 4:39 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by confuted

It is certainly hacked, but the results speak for themselves.

Jim

Posted at 5:34 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Jim

Great Fotos !! Great Hack!

P.s. Fuck you! Grizball!

Posted at 7:58 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Bill Hates

Brilliant! I can think of real professional uses for this too. I hope he’s working on a patent (if possible) and/or marketing.

Posted at 8:25 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Otter

Fantastic. I should build one of those one day!

Posted at 8:40 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Tachikoma

lol, the full res image crashed firefox when I tried to load it. I guess the mozilla devs never planned for 130 megapixel images embedded in a webpage.

Posted at 11:28 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by freyyr890

Awesome post! I had thought about doing something like this, but I’m glad to see some people have already done it. Maybe I’ll try to improve on their designs.

One thing I noticed on the full resolution images is that they are blurry. 35mm lenses were never designed to handle this resolution. It would be nice to see how much sharper the image is if they used a large format lens.

Posted at 3:45 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by ribblem

no shit! :D

Posted at 3:55 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by abitchtarroza

I can see an arm hair on his table. I am impressed by the results that he got from this hack.

(@ freyyr890) FF 3.5b99 handled it like a champ.

Posted at 4:20 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by sexiewasd

Great hack!

@otter – Devices using this principle are called digital scanning backs, and have been in use for a while in professional large format photography.

Posted at 4:43 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by JPL

@sexiewasd

Keep telling yourself that hair came from his arm and I’ll do the same :)

“I built a scanner camera, and all I have to show for it are these hi-res pubes”

Posted at 6:34 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by absolutezero

the main problem, it seems to me, is the slow speed of the scan. if you take pics of anything moving faster than a snail, your “high-res” means nothing.

Posted at 8:36 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by countchocula

@countchocula

I agree that’s the biggest technical hurdle of the project, but when I first read the post, I thought the slower speed of the scan might be able to produce some pretty interesting results…

I imagine aiming this thing down a busy downtown area in maybe New York or some such place. Huge stationery buildings all around, and maybe a few cross-streets with heavy traffic. It seems to me all the stationery objects would show up as expected, but the stream of moving objects I could only imagine would show up as a stream of mis-matched patches in strips perpendicular to the direction of travel.

I would love to toy around with a device like this, I’m sure you could produce some pretty interesting artistic type shots.

Posted at 8:46 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by absolutezero

Welcome back to the age of sitting still for 5+ minutes to get your shot taken :)
Hehe, I kid.. awesome hack!

Posted at 10:03 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by Fry-kun

An interesting use for this would be to set it up on the finish line of a race. You’d get a bit of distortion based on speed, but assuming everyone arrives at close to the same time you would get a cool bunched together shot of all of the runners in placing order, letting their movement do the work of the scan. That, and the ground in the photo would all be the color of the finish line, which is usually a brilliant white, so it would make the scene a little surreal.

Posted at 10:45 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by F7

hmm… my firefox handled it like a champ too… 3.0.10
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729

Posted at 11:46 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by sly

@absolutezero
Check out the link in the additional article, the guy took a picture with the garage door opening. http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/wacky_garage.jpg

Posted at 3:54 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by Ryan

@freyyr890

My firefox handled it just fine.
Don’t like firefox?
Develop your own browser!

Posted at 5:24 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by MrX

This looks like an improvement over a couple of older scanner camera experiments I’ve seen. It still suffers the limitation of a fixed “shutter” speed, such that *any* movement will lead to interesting effects.

I’ve got a number of old dig cameras in my junk drawer. I wish I had the bsEE brain with which to create a hybrid sensor array on a common focal plane (as opposed to an array of cameras), roughly along the lines of the PanSTARRS ccd array: http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/design-features/cameras.html

Posted at 6:44 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by cmholm

Sure puts good use to broadband too :)
Flckr has a pretty decent speed incidentally, nice serverpark.

Posted at 7:32 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by Wwhat

When I opened a 3rd large one in both firefox and then an external viewer it did slow my system down like mad I must say, but FF was OK and didn’t crash or anything.
This on 32bit XP, single core system.

Posted at 7:35 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by Wwhat

@F7 This can produce very interesting effects, but a panning motion is required. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography

@ribblem 35mm lens are the sharpest of them all, with leica at the top. The reason large format lens make better photographs is the film size. Large Format lens lack the resolving power of 35mm lens.

sweet project!

Posted at 10:47 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by alex

Opened fine for me, and all I can say is… wow, detailed!

I noticed the text on the right side of the image was more blurred than the text on the left – but that might have to do with the angles of the objects, I suppose.

I have FF 3.0 – with mem cache bumped up to 256MB on an old Athlon XP w/ 1GB of RAM.

Posted at 12:39 pm on Jun 11th, 2009 by BikeHelmet

nice camera.
for the rest of you, learn english. japan sucks.

Posted at 2:29 am on Jun 12th, 2009 by fiend

CANT WAIT FOR 130 MP PORN

no
no i cant

-hero

Posted at 12:37 am on Jun 14th, 2009 by -hero

Please check this out. I had thought it was gone to Internet Heaven, but here it is.

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

Posted at 12:39 am on Jul 14th, 2009 by richard