This is an interesting project to attempt, if you happen to have an old scanner sitting around, and some kind of prime lens that you could affix to it. (Colin, I’m thinking you might like this one.)
A Japanese blogger has made a “scancam” that gets 130 megapixels (that’s 13,068 x 10,173 pixels) out of a scanner and an old 50 mm Canon lens. It doesn’t take pictures very quickly, but it gets the job done. Check it out:
Oh, you want to know what you’re dealing with? Well, you can check out the guy’s Flickr stream. Or you can check out this exhaustive post about it.
Or, you can just take a look at this downsized version of a picture taken by the scancam:
And that little red square on the battery? There on the left? Well, let me show you what you’d see if you zoomed in to that square, on the original 130-megapixel file:
Yeah. Cool.
(Via bbg)
That is highly, highly cool. I think that may be in my future!
For more low-fi, DIY fun, check this out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacorocha/sets/72157619006319867/