So I had to get my document scanner out tonight to scan some tax forms and while I was cleaning off the glass I was thinking about how a scanner is kind of like a ccd, it is a plane that captures light. So I got thinking about this and it really got me kind of intrigued. So I thought, if I put a lens up to this thing, the same distance away as the lens sits from the film plane and there’s enough light, then the lens will project an image onto the scanner. Well if then I hit scan it would capture that image. So I set out to test my theories, and guess what. It worked. so here’s a little self portrait, from my scanner. I’m thinking that tomorrow morning i might try it out the window where there is much more light. I’m also curious how it will handle motion considering how the exposure is dynamic. hmmmm.
The other thing I did with my scanner tonight was scan a medium format shot that had been sitting in my car for months. I lent my camera to a girl I worked with awhile ago and the whole role was blank except for one shot that I had taken in my car. I’ve been shooting so much 35mm lately I forgot how good 120 is. I wish I had a nice 120 scanner or an enlarger I’d shoot it a lot more. Either way. here are the shots.
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Tags: , 35mm, film, medium format, portra, portrait, scanner
Ha, wicked experiment. Really, I’d never come up with something like that, fascinating.
There’s a whole bunch of people playing with scanners to take pictures. Most of them attach the scanner to the back of a large format camera. Just google ’scanner camera’ and you should come up with a bunch of stuff. Motion gets all stretched and squished. It’s pretty cool.
the scanner project sound awesome.haha.