A Nice Side Project: Large Format Digital Photography
Going Large Format With Cardboard, Foamcore, Tape, and a Magnifying Lens
Let's face it. I like tinkering. And with the Anime Expo event coming up, I have found that other than photography, I really enjoy finding something creative and involved to do with my brothers. This year, it will be to build a relatively medium to large format camera with a digital scanning back.
The catch, of course, is that the digital scanning back will be a scanner and the camera "body and lens" will be a literal mishmash of cardboard and foam core. I'm very curious as to what it will produce. More on this later!
Some rough specs for what the camera will be like:
- USB Powered digital scanning back:
- CIS (Contact Image Sensor)
- Imaging Sensor Native Resolution: 1200x1200 pixels
- Max imaging surface area: 8" x 10"
- Max effective imaging surface area: 7" x 9"
- Max effective pixels: 90,720,000 ( 90.72 MegaPixels )
- Fastest Scanning Time: 16 seconds
- Foam Core Back Plate
- Wax Paper Focussing Screen
- Magnifying Glass "Lens"
- Cardboard Aperture Plates
- Electronic Shutter
- USB 1.0/2.0 bus
- USB Power source
I'm hoping to build one for myself and pickup a scanner down there so that my brother can build one as well! I'm hoping that this will serve as a cool way for him to photograph, in painfully high resolution, his various other art related projects, as well as taking some interesting landscape photograph of his surroundings.
I certainly intend to!
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