Awesome, early stage project from Kevin Kadooka on hackaday.io:
The goal of this project is to fabricate a medium format digital camera based on a linear photodiode array. The TSL1406RS array will be scanned across a 65 x 48mm frame, upon which images will be projected by a Mamiya 645 80mm f/2.8 C lens. Image processing and control of the camera will be done by a Teensy 3.2.
Scanner cameras are by no means a new thing – they are as old as digital photography itself. By doing a cursory Google search you can find dozens of such projects based on linear CCD arrays torn out of flatbed scanners, etc. These can produce pretty stellar image quality (and color images, to boot) but the fact that they need to be hooked up to a PC remains a limitation in terms of portability. It is much rarer to see a fully “self-contained” scanner camera which requires no such control by a PC.
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