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Nice! Whenever I see rolling shutter photos on flickr/etc I always think about this old page where a fellow built a long-distance camera from a flatbed scanner
by zorpner 12y ago
Nice! Whenever I see rolling shutter photos on flickr/etc I always think about this old page where a fellow built a long-distance camera from a flatbed scanner to get the effect intentionally: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
(There's a great image of a garage door opening & closing about 2/3 of the way down the page if you don't feel like reading the whole thing.)
- err4nt 12y agoThis is so fascinating. This makes me long for the days when browsing somebody's homepage on the web felt like they were actually inviting you into their home like a friend.
- bentcorner 12y agoSame here. I love reading the pages of these super-creative types of people.
- mikepurvis 12y agoHis woodworking videos are fantastic. Also, FWIW, he's now got a whole page about the cameras he's used to film them: http://woodgears.ca/misc/best_camera.html http://woodgears.ca/misc/best_camera.html
- vivekian2 12y agoYou bet. Sometimes I feel a lot of these homepages were lost to page ranks and our quest to search everything on Google.
- camillomiller 12y agoI did the same, as many other did: http://camillomiller.com/sc http://camillomiller.com/sc That website was of some inspiration, great too see it's still online!
- vanderZwan 12y agoFellow scannercam hobbyist checking in! Did you also discover the trick of taking "HDR" photographs by setting the software to do a "colour" scan with every colour channel set to a different exposure? Anyway, in my case the hobby led me down the rabbit hole of slitscanning and other spacetime-warping artworks, such as Bill Spinhoven's "It's About Time" (who was one of my tutors in art school, and AFAIK was the first artist to do this in a real-time installation) http://www.spinhoven.nl/work/EN/workitsabouttime2.htm http://www.spinhoven.nl/work/EN/workitsabouttime2.htm These day's it's quite easy to do with software. Here's a test of one of my own prototypes made with Processing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_7uWAUIjQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_7uWAUIjQU
- dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y agoI went down this rabbit hole myself, it's great fun. On our camera we noticed The RGB sensor data lined up well moving right-to-left, but misaligned when scanning left-to-right, creating a subtle rainbow effect. http://topologo.com/animations/scan.html http://topologo.com/animations/scan.html
- camillomiller 12y agoWow, that's great! Thanks for the links!
- rjgray 12y agoCool! It reminds me of the slitscan special effects technique that was used to create the stargate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/slit-scan-recreating-the-stargate-sequence-from-stanley-kubricks-2001-using-legos/ http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/slit-scan-recreating-the-star...
- Osmium 12y agoConveniently available as a really cool iPhone app: http://funnerlabs.com/apps/slitscan http://funnerlabs.com/apps/slitscan I'm a big fan of this because (a) it gives you a photo with a time dimension! and (b) it happens to be a similar technique to what some satellites use (a single row of pixels that sweeps across the sky) so it's cool to gain an intuition into how that works.