Re: flatbed scanhead in rotating camera

[Joe McCary <mccary@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not a Cirkut shooter, but I think your dimensions are off.  My flatbed scanners are both 8½x 11 and 14.  So if you took the "bar" that moves down the flatbed page yo0u would be talking about a 8: bar.  the file would be 8½x your rotation distance.  And you are correct, the resulting file would certainly be  BIG!  You idea is an interesting one.  Some of the new inexpensive USP scanner (less than $100 US)  should work fine in that capacity.  All you would need is some software that would turn it on and capture and turn it off.  The file should be beautiful and my scanner is a 600 dpi scanner so the resulting file would certainly be large enough to handle any subject.  Keep us posted on any tests please.

 

Joe McCary

----- Original Message -----

From: Clayton Tume

To: Panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: Tim Smith

Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:23 AM

Subject: flatbed scanhead in rotating camera

Hi all

 

Has anyone out there tried fitting the moving scanning bar from a flat bed scanner into a rotating camera?

 

I have a #8 Cirkut camera and talking with a friend who is into all this computer stuff, it would be the ideal camera to do it to. Fit a 600 dpi bar behind the slot, hook up a laptop, rotate the camera and download the file (probably 300mb) and print 12 inches wide times eight feet long on an Epson photo printer.

 

What do you think?

 

Clayton