It’s not something that you would take on your next Photo safari but if you are into gadgets and alike you will love this one. A japanese camera buff build himself a 130 megapixel camera from an older 1200 dpi Epson flatbed scanner and a manual Canon lens. The images are huge: 13,068 x 10,173 pixels. (The standard resolution of an average sized computer monitor is about 1024 x 768 pixels.)
I think we may just have to contact this guy because he definitly needs SilverFast for his camera 😉
[youtube Pn9ZoaPIHQc 130 mega pixel scanner camera]
You can check out some of the pictures made with that camera in his flickr album.
Hi, he is cooperating scanner specific company scanner and already using their scanning software.
http://www.imeasure.co.jp/index-en.html
Wow, that’s pretty interesting!
The concept looks like one of those old digital scanning backs from Betterlight, in a way…
http://www.betterlight.com/products4X5.html
Here is a stop and go animation video I made with my scanner camera, max size 8 x 12″ at 1200 dpi (138mp?):
http://noisivelvet.com/videos/view/14/
props to mike g. for putting the recipe out there.
joe b.