Handmade medium format 140M pixel digital camera

what you have built is truly amazing! I would love more information on how you built this.

Realy cool! This was the original idea for large format digital photography. Put your scaner on a 8x10 large format camera.

I am so happy that this is possible, I was looking at old scanners and always thinking about this! Do you have some build plans?

A version of this where the lens swings around, like a digital Widelux, would be very cool, too!

This should be the standard in stop motion movies

Fantastic. There was a dude in Budapest, german guy I think, did something similar, wrote also his own software. Can't remember his name.

Hasselblad was really quiet since this dropped

How do you know when your pictures are in focus or not?

Just a few thoughts, I could be totally wrong. It has a higher dynamic range because you have more positions per sensorpoint (which would be e.g. the blue sensor). You could get even higher dynamic range by capturing pixel sub steps (or making it move slower but longer) and then add them together with a clever function or make the pixel shape weird. That would capture crazy large image files. But this has limits, as the sensor has a low and a high limit. To go beyond you could take the image at multiple f stops or multiple iso steps, if available.

How do you focus this thing?

I don't understand why you didn't use a 16bit camera with pixel shift. What do you get out of it, other than the fun of making something DIY?
Of course, having fun is also a very important reason. 🥰🥰

Love your idea and the camera!! The results are amazing!

The reflection of yourself on the droplet of water was crazy

I remember seeing scanner cameras 20 + years ago.

申し訳ありません。センサーPCBの幅を教えていただけますか？似たようなスキャナーバッグをデザインしていますが、12cmなのか13cmなのか…素材を見つけるのは難しいです。ありがとうございます。

This is awesome

Now that's some high precision measurements

Cool. I wonder how fast you could do the actual scan.

This is fantastic!

Hi again Ryan - how did you get the rgb channels to line up correctly? Are you doing rgb alignment in editing?

Could you share how you were able to turn off the light source?

Hello, can i contact you for a industrial project?

How do you focus it?

can you make a followup with a build tutorial and software tweaks for the best results? i would really love to take some photos of the moon or planets with this and a telescope. also how long does it take for an image?

thats really cool, i would love to have a scanner camera

Если есть возможность , расскажи как ее собрать , очень интересно попробовать поснимать на такое

It is nice. Carry on!

Very cool. Please post more on this camera and similar future builds :)

have you tried the scanner with a high quality modern lens? I bet you could get some really fantastic stuff with old cine lenses

I would be interested in building it or buying a module how can I contact you?

This idea is came to me a week ago and now I see this!!! I was thinking what if I can just use a scanner without light as a digital back for a large format

Amazing, seems completely quixotic and impractical but fantastic for engineering whimsy.

i want to get one🥰

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Ryan do you need to remove the lens on the scanner? I'd like to be able to take 8x10 photos.

Very impressive results, trying to create a scanning camera myself using a similar scanner sensor. In my attempt i try to directly interface with the sensor PCB. Using a raspberry pi pico i have been able to talk to the ADC on the sensor PCB and retrieve the image data. This should allow for manual gain and integration time settings aswell as full controll on how the stepper motor is driven. As the raspberry pi pico has a slow USB(1.1) interface i am directly writing the image data to a SD card. This seems to work quite well although i have not yet started on the mechanical part of the camera so cant show any photos yet.

I built that at home

Hacked audio

I hate music

Oh mafia cult music

I had call and ask this guy if I could use his red plastic

I saw a couple of people mention in the comments that the hardest part of realizing this project would be the "initialization". Can anyone explains what this means? To me it seems pretty simple: buy the same scanner, tear it down while keeping all electrical connections intact, rig it up at the correct distance from your lens and Bob's your uncle?

Not much info here, but lower down in the comments Ryan posted that the scanner used was a Epson Perfection v370. I'm thinking of trying to hack this together for studio photography, in order to pre-visualize 4x5 film photos (in order to save film). For setting the distance to the lens, an old microscope could be used as it has very rigid and excellent gearing for making tiny & repeatable movements.

Super interesting!!

Would love to see this solution in combination with an Episcope lens camera like DIY Perks just created.

Can the music.

I'm surprised this concept hasn't moved forward or are the big manufacturers deaf blind and dumb?

So cool! I wonder if we could apply a similar approach to the microscope photo 🤔