nanscombe":3kp0qhyz said:I wonder if you could just create a housing to take a smart phone instead of a whopping great scanner?
Bale":r50wezrm said:
Pete Maddex":1qs7ajxl said:I hope you are going to do a WIP, that looks a nice blend of metal and woodwork.
nanscombe":1qs7ajxl said:I wonder if you could just create a housing to take a smart phone instead of a whopping great scanner?
bugbear":1qs7ajxl said:Interesting project, but why stainless
Actually they're just to the West of Watford in Hertfordshire.zb1":15i4gp8e said:They are down in Essex but deliver nationally.
Bale":111xs0mm said:...nanscombe":111xs0mm said:I wonder if you could just create a housing to take a smart phone instead of a whopping great scanner?
Well, yes; but then you wouldn't get a 160 Megapixel image. ...
I can't speak for the poster, but it's probably what they werte refering to.nanscombe":i5zd47q5 said:When I think of a scanner I tend to think of those A4 / A3 jobbies, is that what you mean?
Rhossydd":1fuc6f60 said:I can't speak for the poster, but it's probably what they werte refering to.nanscombe":1fuc6f60 said:When I think of a scanner I tend to think of those A4 / A3 jobbies, is that what you mean?
Building 'cameras' using flatbed scanners as the image sensor has been going on for years (decades?). It doesn't tend to be particularly successful due to the long effective exposure duration, plus other issues eg needing to be tethered to a decent computer/laptop, focus issues, etc.
It ends up just being a gimmick that doesn't really add much to the photographic diaspora.
Pete Maddex":1fuc6f60 said:...pick up...
I've got a Seitz camera and the build quality is outstanding, but in such small numbers of niche products there's never going to be any economies in volume production. Also Switzerland isn't a cheap place to make things. Trying to build anything vaguely comparable would be a masterpiece of home engineering.Bale":1nhtv26v said:The Seitz also costs somewhere in the region of $45,000, so the prospect of coming up with something similar for the price of a redundant scanner off Gumtree is appealing.
Tablets would be a nightmare to try to interface (Possibly excepting the new MS surface Pro 3) as you'd need the correct drivers for the scanner.although with the advent of tablet computers the portability issue is not quite as bad as it was.
Rhossydd":1oyqkg1z said:I've got a Seitz camera and the build quality is outstanding, but in such small numbers of niche products there's never going to be any economies in volume production. Also Switzerland isn't a cheap place to make things. Trying to build anything vaguely comparable would be a masterpiece of home engineering.
Absolutely, although I've always found the lack of plans anywhere a little surprising.Bale":1i2cepx1 said:But a simple field camera is do-able for a small outlay
<Huge grin> The real fun is using large format cameras with instant film. I'm hoping this project might come to fruition http://fstoppers.com/the-return-of-type-55-film If that succeeds you can bet that S/H Polaroid backs will be in demand again and prices will rocket.it would probably spend most of its time sitting on a tripod in my living room anyway.
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