scanner pinhole camera

I have another digital pinhole idea, that I am about to try.
Someone else who has tried this?

I'll start off with a simple flatbed-scanner (a Canon model) that doesn't need any power supply (it runs via USB from the laptop computer battery).
I'll take away the cover, and place tha scanner in a light light box. That is, an ordinary, but large, pinhole camera.
On the scanner area I'll place a home made "screen", made with semi-trasparent paper used for architects drawings. I guess I need to fix the paper onto the scanner with a plexi-glass plate.
Finally the scanner is connected to the laptop, and voila - a digital pinhole camera!

Ok, one problem that needs to be solved: I guess I need to remove the lamp in the scanner, since I don't want to have any reflective scanning. All I want to capture is the image projected onto the scanner.

And what about scanning time - can that be handled by the scanner software?

So, any ideas or experiences from similar projects?

/peter

Peter Wiklund
www.peterpinhole.com
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Received on Thu Mar 29 23:21:08 2007