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You don't need an $85,000 camera to play around with slit scan photography. As with just about everything these days, there's an app for that: https://itunes.ap

You don't need an $85,000 camera to play around with slit scan photography. As with just about everything these days, there's an app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360... Note that this is slit-SCAN, which is a bit different in that it moves the "slit" across the face off the sensor, rather than capturing from a static slit over time (the same technique was used in Star Trek:TNG to show the Enterprise going into warp). Nonetheless, you can play with time similarly.

chmod775 14y ago
You can just make a video, and select a column of pixels. Then place the different columns (color-wise) you get from each frame next to each other. The resulting image will have the same width as the number of frames you used and it will probably have a lot of artefacts considering the quality of today's (home) video technology. But it is essentially the same. Just what came to my mind just now.
keenerd 14y ago
If you want to play with real hardware, scrap a $100 scanner. Simplest/oldest: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html (The garage door picture continues to be awesome after so many years.) More professional version: http://golembewski.awardspace.com/index.html http://golembewski.awardspace.com/index.html (And weirdest - you really do not want to blink during one of these photos.)
- minikomi 14y ago
  There's also the (admittedly more expensive) wonderful Widelux camera and its various Russian knockoff models. Jeff Bridges uses it to wonderful effect to document on-scenes at most of his movies, and then present the staff with a book when shooting closes. http://www.jeffbridges.com/camera.html http://www.jeffbridges.com/camera.html
bcks 14y ago
It's worth noting the the Slit-Scan Camera iPhone app is FREE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360
PhantomLobe 14y ago
In fact I hacked a Perl script to make slit scan video (which is a trivial step in digital). Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJF1RPLgjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJF1RPLgjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-EOehtHOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-EOehtHOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYIt_JR1AU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYIt_JR1AU

chmod775 14y ago

You can just make a video, and select a column of pixels. Then place the different columns (color-wise) you get from each frame next to each other. The resulting image will have the same width as the number of frames you used and it will probably have a lot of artefacts considering the quality of today's (home) video technology. But it is essentially the same. Just what came to my mind just now.

keenerd 14y ago

If you want to play with real hardware, scrap a $100 scanner. Simplest/oldest: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html (The garage door picture continues to be awesome after so many years.) More professional version: http://golembewski.awardspace.com/index.html http://golembewski.awardspace.com/index.html (And weirdest - you really do not want to blink during one of these photos.)

minikomi 14y ago
There's also the (admittedly more expensive) wonderful Widelux camera and its various Russian knockoff models. Jeff Bridges uses it to wonderful effect to document on-scenes at most of his movies, and then present the staff with a book when shooting closes. http://www.jeffbridges.com/camera.html http://www.jeffbridges.com/camera.html

bcks 14y ago

It's worth noting the the Slit-Scan Camera iPhone app is FREE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-camera/id419292360

PhantomLobe 14y ago

In fact I hacked a Perl script to make slit scan video (which is a trivial step in digital). Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJF1RPLgjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJF1RPLgjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-EOehtHOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-EOehtHOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYIt_JR1AU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYIt_JR1AU