Re: digital pinhole cameras

Hi:

You could try converting a scanner into a camera. A scanner is essentially a very specialized strip
camera designed to take panoramic pictures of pages.

You could try getting a cheap or broken one disabling the light source.

Info on making a lens based scanner camera is at

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-better-scanner-cam.html

Gord

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:12:40PM -0800, Bretton wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:12:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bretton <bretton@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] digital pinhole cameras
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
>
> Hi,
>
> I know there has been some discussion of digital
> pinhole cameras on the list, but not much...
>
> Does anyone know if the cameras marketed for
> surveillance purposes are very high res? I would
> assume not, but I couldn't find any ads that mentioned
> resolution.
>
> I want to buy/make a digital pinhole camera that will
> produce nice looking digital prints (8x10 or 11x14)
> without showing pixels.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions, ideas, or plans for
> building your own digital camera?
>
> I use a 4x5 pinhole camera now, but find it a bit
> tedious and time consuming to deal with sheet film and
> developing, etc...I guess I could get a digital back,
> but i assume that's an expensive option.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Bretton
>
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Received on Mon Feb 25 12:10:36 2002