Building a Digicam from Scanner Elements 111
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Want a weird & wobbly digital camera, but don't want to spend over $100? Well,
Matthias Wandel, whose site is due for some /. lovin', used the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera. Read about progress
at this site. Oh, and he also builds things out of legos as well." I personally think that his Jenga Pistol and wasp-vacuum are pretty neat too.
lens issues (Score:4, Insightful)
Something like this is going to be next to impossible to find. and might be a photographic collectable as well?
Perfect reading for a sunday afternoon. File away as technology to remember for after the end of the world.
Re:High Resolution Vs. High Quality (Score:2, Insightful)
He was impressed with the resolution, and I think it looks pretty good too.
The point was to try and build it, not try to create a perfect image... I'm sure you've seen better images with a 1.5 megapixel camera, that's what they're built to do... I'm sure we can also assume that the picture on the site was shrunk down with a sort of image program to make it more web friendly