Damn it, I wish I thought of this first. This is what happens when you combine a large format camera (think 4×5) with a traditional flat-bed scanner attached to the back. You get a camera with oodles of megapixels and dizzying file sizes. Sure, your exposure times go to seconds to sometimes minutes instead of fractions of a second. But the results are well worth the wait and as you can see in the picture, you can have fun with this “limitation.”
This reminds me a lot of my first encounter with a Polaroid land camera for which you can no longer buy film for. Instead, I stuffed photo paper into the back and exposed on to that.
The great thing about this project, is that the current scanner-camera being used is a Canon LiDE 20 USB scanner, which I have. It's cheap, small, lightweight and is bus powered.
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