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| Fireman Andy
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12-15-2002 01:24 AM ET (US)
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One reason the images look so rich and unique is that the scanner lights it subject with a bar of light that travels with the sensor bar, thus simulating a light that stretches over every inch of the subject. This could be done with a regular photo, but not easily with larger subjects and you always have the dark spot where the camera is sitting. Perfect edge to edge focus with out distortion and perfectly even lighting. Cool idea. Great pictures.
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Buzz
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12-15-2002 02:44 AM ET (US)
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Here is the (I think) big diff: A scanner has what would be optically-equivalent to an infinite focal length. In a camera, the lens takes all the light coming in at angles and projects them onto a plane. In a flatbed scanner, all the rays of light are coming in parallel, so there is no distortion of the image. It's very cool to look at pictures at this extreme end of focal length.
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| David Mercer
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12-15-2002 02:57 AM ET (US)
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I first noticed the 3D coolness of scanning things when I 'backed up' my hardcopy phone-list at work around 98-99, and noticed how crisply the wrinkles looked (it was a very abused phone list!).
My girlfriend and I since have done scans of strange objects and object collages, maybe we should do a showing!
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| Tom
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12-15-2002 07:41 AM ET (US)
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They're alright. I've just got addicted to lens-based stuff, although pinhole looks like a good way to produce similar images, or alternatively f/64 on a large format camera lens. Both of those will give a near infinite depth-of-field, and then you can get creative at the enlarging stage, preferably with a long exposure on a stopped-down lens (f/45 on my Minolta enlarger lens) Jill Staples, a photographer who runs my local independent group (Independent Photographers South-East - UK), does similar things with flowers... A few of her pictures are here, but as always with pictures, they look better 'in the flesh'... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.mynett/ipse/gallery/gjill.htm |
| Chris Johnson
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12-15-2002 08:32 PM ET (US)
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