Comments on: 130 Megapixel scanner camera

By: richard

richard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:39:04 +0000

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

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

By: -hero

-hero — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:37:22 +0000

CANT WAIT FOR 130 MP PORN

no
no i cant

-hero

By: fiend

fiend — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:29:01 +0000

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

By: BikeHelmet

BikeHelmet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:39:32 +0000

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.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:47:23 +0000

@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!

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:35:30 +0000

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.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:32:49 +0000

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

By: cmholm

cmholm — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:44:29 +0000

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

By: MrX

MrX — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:24:28 +0000

@freyyr890

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:54:44 +0000

@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

By: sly

sly — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:46:24 +0000

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

By: F7

F7 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:45:12 +0000

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.

By: Fry-kun

Fry-kun — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:03:23 +0000

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

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:46:44 +0000

@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.

By: countchocula

countchocula — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:36:59 +0000

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.