Thanks!

If you’re interested in photography, building your own camera is extremely rewarding, and I can’t recommend it strongly enough. Hit me up if you need any guidance!

Thanks!

Cabbage covered a bunch of the process below. In this case, I had a neutral grey background and laid on my back, sticking my hands into the view of the camera. And while watching the scan progress on a screen I moved my hands around until I got this.

It’s a fairly cumbersome process, as each scan takes a couple of minutes and any unintended motion gets captured as well. Out of the 40 or so attempts, this one is the cleanest, both with regards to unintended motion, and with the pose coming out the way I wanted it to.

Good ifra, unfortunately my engineering skills stop at desk-sized

Hah! Thanks, I’ll let you know! Maybe I can set up some guerilla style exhibition in a nearby alley 😂

Thanks! I appreciate the feedback. I don’t crop shots done with this camera, I want to preserve the organic borders and learn to live with what is captured without messing too much with it.

However, I halfway agree with your observation, on a small screen this really could do with a tighter framing, or maybe bringing the model closer to the camera. But in a larger print (this is one of two shots Ive printed in 80x80 cm), the airy composition works really well.

I refuse to ignore you!

As for busy road at night, I’m afraid that with this way of doing scanning photography it would be quite uninteresting. The motion is way too quick, and cars would render as with either weird vertical lines or very small diagonal squiggles, depending on which direction you scan.

I suggest looking up some talks by the Italian photographer Adam Magyar, he’s done some great talks on transchronologal (?) photography, and is a great artist himself.

I love the small insights into signal theory/processing generated by this image, this is really cool stuff! Thank you for chiming in.

Of course there’s some ancient broadcast standard at the bottom of 44.1khz, thanks for the clarification! (I work in film/TV and still struggle with explaining explaining ‘illegal’ values to some clients on certain deliverables)

Or a wheatfield, definetly not water though…

I haven’t really considered that, I’m assuming the (in this case) vertical sampling is ‘global’, as in the values at each sensor site is locked at the same time and then read out from the serial bus.

If there was a delay, stuff like fluorescent lighting would read as a moire pattern, but I’ve only ever encountered streaking/linear distortion in those circumstances.

I think the ‘griddyness’ or general sense of direction in the water is purely a function of how water moves and not a result of readout delay.

I’d love to be proven wrong, though, so if I can do some experiment to determine either way, I’m all ears.

Thanks! I’d love to hear your thoughts if you feel like sharing.

Agreed, it’s usually not that spiky

Thanks! Your nitpicking is most welcome.

Thanks, I agree, it’s one of my favorite shots from this camera.

That’s pretty clever. You’re walking in the footsteps of the Dutch masters, using projection in this way. I really like the drawings, and congratulations on finding more uses for your device!

When rolling shutter is the main event, better make it look good, right?

I have a series of shots with the fabric, it’s the centerpiece of all of them, in that case it helps a lot!

Since I built the camera, I’ve been looking for ways to use its artifacts and idiosyncrasies to make pictures no one has ever seen, the temporal skew that it allows is super interesting to me.

I’m kinda in love with taking an ‘undesirable’ artifact and sticking it front and front and center. Thank you!

I guess you’re talking about Drake V, the one with the horizontal waveform? That is a big piece of fabric waving in the wind during the exposure.

Thats quite the contraption! What an epic rig, and awesome shots! Thank you so much for sharing! What do you think is the cause of the moiree-pattern in the edges of some of them?

Cathode ray dude on YouTube just dropped a feature length video on scanners, you might find it interesting!

Addiction is an example, the thing that makes you feel good in the short term, is the same thing that mess you up in the long term, and the only thing that makes the thing bearable is more of the thing, completing a fucking horrible cycle.