Handmade medium format 140M pixel digital camera

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2 жыл бұрын

Recently I resumed taking pictures with this camera, so I made this video. Sorry for my poor English speech.
Twitter: @scanner_camera
1200 dpi full resolution sample : flic.kr/p/2nREwRX
Thanks for watching!

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@raspy00135 Жыл бұрын

I just noticed this video got some views. Thanks!

@just_another_fan418 Жыл бұрын

Your video was in my KZfaq recommendations, and I'm glad it was. Very interesting project!

@jjflash2611 Жыл бұрын

Awesome DIY Camera. Please post another video showing some of the High Res Photos you have taken with it. Would be great to see.

@raspy00135 Жыл бұрын

@@jjflash2611 www.flickr.com/photos/82772083@N00/

@ViceChief Жыл бұрын

Great work and great video! What software are you using to control the camera?

@P54G76 Жыл бұрын

This video is literally super cool I want to make that

@leiilo 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! I can't believe this doesn't have more views! You, sir, are amazing, and your project is too. Well done! Can't believe this is 11 years old yet performs so well also!

@leiilo 2 жыл бұрын

By the way, don't worry about your English skills! As a native (American) English speaker, I can understand you fine. Even if you do make some mistakes (which is fine and understandable), you get your point across!

@leiilo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much as well for the information at the end of the video! 😁 (It looks complicated, but if all the parts together are under $150 (US dollars) I will try to make it!

@raspy00135 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I got many views when I made the 1st gen of the camera (One in the video is the 2nd gen). This video is just a recap of what I did, sometimes I brought this to take landscape photos.. It's not an easy project, I don't want to make it again 😅

@Costura Жыл бұрын

@@raspy00135 🙃

@philindeblanc Жыл бұрын

Well done on making one!! Scanback cameras have been around longer than digital CMOS or CCD cameras. I wish Foveon would mature and develop. I think Sigma sold Foveon, no? Anyway, one of the 1st was Better Light and stil make scanbacks upto 384 megapixel. Sadly,this very cheap tech is packaged and made very expensive. But today that has dropped a lot. For example you can get one of the 137mpixel backs for around $600 to 1800 used. . Much respect for this guy making his own. What is great about that is he can swap lens mounts as he wishes. On 4x5 you can also by making a plate to the mount of choice. 4x5 allows for swings shift and tilt.

@feraudyh 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing scanner cameras 20 + years ago.

@SatellaNNW Жыл бұрын

The most important part of your experiment, is that you found that the scaner is capable of capture (almost) the original dynamic range like our eyes can. I believe that this is the beginning of many things. This is marvelous. Great material.

@jasonquin7343 Жыл бұрын

This is what Phase One did decades ago (PowerPhase FX). Those Toshiba linear CCD is not very expensive, however, the real tricky part is that you need quite a lot electrical engineering knowledge to drive them. That is why most of the DIY projects are only restricted to disassembled scanners.

@zoladkow Жыл бұрын

HDR is a sideeffect of how scaners work. They capture intensity of each color for each pixel as it is, independently of others, while a digicams capture information for all pixels at the same moment. digicams do this to solve other problems (like speed) and the easiest approach is to estimate optimal params, capture everything, then figure out what to with that information. With scaner you obviously dont care for speed (forget about shoiting series of action) but want to have as much detail and fidelity as possible - they are also capturing like 10bit (at least AFAIR) color information 😁

@Omaryllo Жыл бұрын

Don't area sensors also use rolling shutter? Only high-end cameras have global shutters, and they're typically video cameras

@zoladkow Жыл бұрын

@@Omaryllo well, true common digital cameras use rolling shutter, but that's not exactly the same as scanners. With scanners nobody is concerned about moving subject. while with cameras, action is obviously a thing, so some compromises are made to have fast capture. Then miniaturization to have as much features in-camera as possible also plays a role in what the sensor is designed to do.

@rich1051414 2 ай бұрын

Regular digital cameras don't have color sensors, but rather a color mask overlaid on the ccd. They guess what the other colors are that that pixel can't actually see by averaging the neighboring pixels. So in comparison, I guess you could call it 'hdr', simply because the color information is by nature higher resolution.

@raspy00135 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. I might make a video a bit more about the camera soon or later. I just don't have enough time to deal with the slow camera for now.

@i_Hally Жыл бұрын

Yes please. We'd love to know more about the parts section so we can try ourselves.

Жыл бұрын

After seeing some of these scanner cameras about 7 years ago I built one and was able to get some images out of it I ran into a lot of issues with initializing and eventually some electrical issues. This one you made looks very nicely done.

@dooterino Жыл бұрын

Incredible work, I'd love to see more about this camera and what went into development

@OnnieKoski Жыл бұрын

I was obsessed with this for a loooooong time. thanks for making a video about it. i like the upgraded exterior case.

@Inadvisablescience Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely brilliant! I am so glad I found this. Thank you for sharing! Must try

@ImposterSloth Жыл бұрын

This project is amazing! I am blown away by the depth of colour and light achieved. I would like to understand how you made this, but I understand that explaining everything is hard also. I see that you have a post on your blog with more detailed photos. If you would be so kind as to take more detailed photos of all of the parts, such as the control board and the lens, I think I could start to figure out what you did. What an amazing project and very beautiful photos!

@harrison00xXx Жыл бұрын

I would guess the most tricky part is to get the scanner to work torn down to the needed parts and to achieve focus. But in overall... its pretty "easy", yet a genious idea!

@explodeyourself123 Жыл бұрын

I would love to try to reproduce this project, the results are astounding! Where do they have their blog?

@christobacon1 Жыл бұрын

@@harrison00xXx focus I bet is the easy part because I'm pretty sure that it's fixed. scanners use a compressing lens to capture wider than the sensor so as long as you know the focusing distance of your lens and make it so that it's landing on the sensor you should be good (obviously who have to be very precise). The initialization step must be the real tricky part.

@ahoyhere8113 Жыл бұрын

this is incredible! the photos on your flickr are like works of art I want to know more, please! and your English is great, thank you for making a video in your non-native language, that is so generous of you to do

@PalKrammer Жыл бұрын

This is wonderful- nice work! Congratulations on achieving this and best wishes to you for future projects!

@SemadOfficial Ай бұрын

The reflection of yourself on the droplet of water was crazy

@pauldavidbarikder1546 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations Sir. Please keep it up. I'm pretty much sure this will go places. Looking forward to the more progress of this experiment .

@ethan_webb Жыл бұрын

This is really incredible, I really hope this video blows up a bit more

@AlexSinclair Жыл бұрын

Such a cool idea! Love seeing new ideas like this!

@the-dronepilot Жыл бұрын

Amazing quality! Amazing beautiful dinamic range!

@2mvX Жыл бұрын

This idea is brillant. GOOD JOB!

@TheEudaemonicPlague Жыл бұрын

I'm going to have to look into building one. While a lot of my subjects move a lot, like cats, I also like to do still subjects, like landscapes. I have a photo scanner that stopped working--probably the light tube burned out, so it should work for this.

@Veptis Жыл бұрын

I have seen a few project similar to this before. But yours is surprising compact. But missing the front standard means you are missing a lot of fun with tilt, rise, swing or shift. But that will make it much more difficult as you has to grab some bellows figure out and interface. I do believe that exploring older lenses with massive image circles is a lot of fun. And it's more affordable than getting a Large Sense camera, which I believe uses a CCD sensor that is normally used with a phosphorus screen for medial x-rays.

@oswald1978 Жыл бұрын

Amazing new viewpoint on how to take photos. Congrats!

@davidathay5793 Жыл бұрын

Ryan, this is a great project! I would love to find out more about your basic approach on this and basic controller. I think I see a Raspberry Pi in there but not sure. If you have any technical details that you would be willing to share I would love to see them. これは本当にスゲーです！感動しました！

@redbeardcreative Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. And thanks for giving us english explanations. No apology is needed!

@asapfilms2519 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations my friend. This is a great achievement. I have been thinking in the same direction also. But haven’t been able to finalise it. Anyways …I think I will try to work on making a video camera out of a scanner next.

@AlOne-xg6dv Жыл бұрын

Very smart idea and build. This makes many photographers dream. You should launch a crowdfunding, it would have a great success. Congrats.

@andrewfrost8866 Жыл бұрын

Please don't apologise for your English. This is amazing, fascinating and incredible!!

@prabhakarrao4922 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant.

@Heisenberg_Aka_itsme Жыл бұрын

Woaw that’s crazy ! Will share this link to my frends. Amazing work

@Nomad_Wanderer Жыл бұрын

That's great photos, its ingenious those pictures are really crisp the image produced is just awesome, i am interested to know more about this project please make detailed video of this project.

@calebbornman3699 6 ай бұрын

This is fantastic!

@InfraredVisuals Жыл бұрын

It's a very interesting project that I wasn't aware of. Thank you for making a video on it.

@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Жыл бұрын

this is truly fantastic !

@andysPARK 9 ай бұрын

Very cool. Please post more on this camera and similar future builds :)

@jonask.1409 Жыл бұрын

So amazing i would love to See more of this Thing great Projekt 👍

@fourtoes412 Жыл бұрын

Very impressive - well done!

@minglee0617 Жыл бұрын

Great job. Hope you keep developing this and post the DIY steps to us

@daliamosesp Жыл бұрын

incredible work

@SatanSupimpa Жыл бұрын

Amazing project

@lucio.ledesma Жыл бұрын

amazing, brother keep up the work!!!

@c0ldcity Жыл бұрын

Wonderful project!

@robinrai4973 Жыл бұрын

Holy cow man that's awsome!

@pyotrpig Жыл бұрын

Perfect for scanning art objects and paintings. May be also usable for landscape.

@kerry5586 Жыл бұрын

Your English is not poor! It is excellent! I wish I could speak another language as well as you do.

@serhiirudenko6183 Жыл бұрын

Can we have more information on this project please? Would be nice to build such thing by myself someday. Looks like a great tool for the landscape photography.

@RomanHoltwick1 Жыл бұрын

This is the perfect camera for slit scan photography. Give it a try 😍

@lucarotteglia417 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool, Im sure this video will blow up 👍👍

@jillianonthehudson1739 Жыл бұрын

I'm so impressed, especially at the dynamic range... Those palm leaves would have been blown out without a neutral filter and bracketing

@babaarcuszatir Жыл бұрын

ETTR, than pulling in post process. What does an ND filter have to do with this?

@jillianonthehudson1739 Жыл бұрын

@@babaarcuszatir Because of the high dynamic range, you'd need an ND filter and have to bracket several stops. Otherwise, with most sensors, you'll end up with blown out pixels and unrecoverable information in the highlights

@babaarcuszatir Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry, but you only need an ND filter if you cannot raise the shutter speed and/or cannot/don’t want to decrease the aperture to reach ETTR. In any other scenarios ND will not help, not a bit.

@LucasSaturn Жыл бұрын

This is incredibly cool. If I was any good at DIY I'd make my own, as some of the photos you showed are absolutely incredible! Any future ideas for this camera?

@kioly_ah Жыл бұрын

what a great project!!!

@AlexandHuman Жыл бұрын

WOW! Great job! I think it would WICKED if one or both of two things were to happen. Firstly, if this can be made to be smaller, allowing for even more storage capacity. Secondly, if a few of these were made, imagine putting right next to each other allowing for the added benefit of multi-angle picture capturing. Speaking of which, imagine combining this camera with a light field camera! the beauty of both worlds! :D

@Karl-P Жыл бұрын

Looks like fun project!

@RandomKSandom Жыл бұрын

I remember people talking about this when it came out and have always wanted to give it a go. I'll have to get on that sooner or later :)

@salvadorjimenez2115 Жыл бұрын

You are an absolute genius wtf

@googleyoutubechannel8554 11 ай бұрын

Amazing, seems completely quixotic and impractical but fantastic for engineering whimsy.

@Spectrumpicture Жыл бұрын

This would be amazing for product photography

@AveryDelMiller Жыл бұрын

wow amazing work!!!

@daveeckblad 5 ай бұрын

2:28 I would consider monochrome full spectrum cameras used with RGB filter wheels capable of also capturing true per-pixel color. This is very common in astrophotography. Thank you for sharing your project. It's really neat!

@hzubovi1 Жыл бұрын

Very original. Would like to see more sample images!

@jake_runs_the_world Жыл бұрын

this is really cool !!

@Ladman.Mp4 3 ай бұрын

This is awesome

@BrianBoniMakes Жыл бұрын

Good ideas, why is this not more popular?

@MrNoipe Жыл бұрын

really cool project, and your english is fine

@kyo7635 Жыл бұрын

Come back to this video to see there are photo samples, the color is stunningly good. I guess if you pair with some high-end modern lens you can create that is on other level

@foveonyc Жыл бұрын

Excellent Work!

@mediamannaman Жыл бұрын

Looks like a fun project for those with the aptitude and skills to do it. I didn't realize that scanners have such a large sensor. It would be a good camera for real estate and architectural photography.

@NapaIm 8 ай бұрын

thats really cool, i would love to have a scanner camera

@funtv5693 5 ай бұрын

Now that's some high precision measurements

@ecalzo Жыл бұрын

WOW.. it's incredible.. you are a smart man i hope you will increase the view .. WOWO

@23lkjdfjsdlfj 9 ай бұрын

Good job. Note that all image sensors use the RGGB format - unless they are grey scale.

@MH-it3se Жыл бұрын

Super interesting!!

@mikaisfake Жыл бұрын

Incredible

@AlexandHuman Жыл бұрын

I love the way you speak!

@usameari Жыл бұрын

maybe this is a begining point of an evolution of capturing images. dslr to mirrorless, than mirrorless to sencorless.. great idea.

@francescomontefiori7064 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!😀👍

@harrison00xXx Жыл бұрын

Awesome Idea and work! Have you ever though about tearing down an old, probably even broken APS-C or full frame DSLR for the mirror mechanism to have something to check focus?

@ryuuskadi2422 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq's compression made the pictures less appealing, this is soo awesome! You might want to put a link for the raw/original files for us to see it better!

@franzoberknecht Жыл бұрын

This is cool!

@vanhetgoor 9 ай бұрын

It is nice. Carry on!

@MrAlb3rtazzo Жыл бұрын

amazing

@hdslave Жыл бұрын

You are a genius

@RobBrulinski Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@Dahrenhorst Жыл бұрын

Wow! Unfortunately I have no clue about electronics, otherwise I would try to build such a camera myself.

@zouhairbenazzouz2536 Жыл бұрын

Man thank you !

@Dewolvez Жыл бұрын

now that is crazy :O wow

@galacticboy2009 Жыл бұрын

The main difficulty I see with this, which other people aren't considering, is a complete lack of focus preview. You'd have to take a preview scan, a single frame, in order to check your focus. There is no way to check it live, no viewfinder, etc. So taking an image would require a lot of preparation, unless you've found a workaround for that.

@slinkousart9849 Жыл бұрын

One option would be a focusing screen

@Dolieprane Жыл бұрын

I assume you can calculate your focus based on your distance with a rangefinder pretty accurately

@neovo903 Жыл бұрын

Considering that it's much larger than full frame too, the dof would be tiny

@jhonatancock2302 Жыл бұрын

maybe do a fast scan to preview focus and then a slow scan to capture the image. Or use traditional mirror focusing and when you are ready, retract the mirror to scan.

@andysPARK 9 ай бұрын

...or have a swap in CCD sensor on the same plane and distance just for focus?

@zhag 11 ай бұрын

This idea is came to me a week ago and now I see this!!! I was thinking what if I can just use a scanner without light as a digital back for a large format

@il0vewikipedia Жыл бұрын

nice project!

@xiaofengzhang9809 Жыл бұрын

Awesome. This looks so fascinating. Would you please make a video or write an instruction so we can also learn how to build the same nice thing? Thank you.

@MrJohnofficial Жыл бұрын

énoooooorme!!! i love it!

@Unmarketable Жыл бұрын

Very cool

@samgerers Жыл бұрын

Does thw exposure time change when you change the resolution? Does that change the exposure or is it just slower at making the image?

@smartduck904 Жыл бұрын

Can I get a full video on building this please and using a modern-day scanner because modern day scanners have over 6000 dpi scan settings

@monte_cristo Жыл бұрын

amazing, so all electronics from actual scanner but with some changes to make it camera? do you have to make your own software to capture such large image ?

@sto2779 Жыл бұрын

Wow, the resolution picture it takes is better than I thought it would be. Interesting project. There’s a lot of scientific use for it. From my understanding, the linear CCD sensor is from a paper scanner?