[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-12 Thread Daniel Reetz
Recently I've seen Lido support added - for $80 for scanner it worth trying. Thanks for that! I have a LiDE around, but for my application, a film plane that's closer to 35mm film (or a bit larger) is ideal... using the linear array from a CCD scanner directly is what I'd like to do.

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-12 Thread m. allan noah
unfortunately, there is no way to know how wide the sensor array will be without opening the machine. I think you should be prepared to buy a couple different machines. craigslist or ebay might be helpful there. allan On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Daniel Reetzdanreetz at gmail.com wrote:

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-11 Thread m. allan noah
Are you trying to build a digital back for something like a medium format body, or are you trying to build one of these panoramic machines? This seems to come up on this mailing list every few months, so you could try searching the archive, but in general you will likely want a CCD machine

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Reetz
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, m. allan noahkitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Are you trying to build a digital back for something like a medium format body, or are you trying to build one of these panoramic machines? I am trying to build a digital back for a custom camera, something like a

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-11 Thread Oleg Perelet
Reetz danreetz at gmail.com Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner? To: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 1:39 PM On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, m. allan noahkitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Are you trying

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Reetz
Hi All, My summer project is to build a scanner camera. I've done my reading and Googling, and found a few people's projects. I've seen the work by Wandel, http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html Tom Sharpless, http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ Andrew Davidhazy,