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*[http://www.flickr.com/groups/scannercamera/ Flickr group for users of self-built scanner cameras] | *[http://www.flickr.com/groups/scannercamera/ Flickr group for users of self-built scanner cameras] | ||
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| Home-made scanner camera image by Antonio Giordano (Image rights) |
A scanner camera is a digital camera which uses no rectangular image sensor chip. Instead it uses a narrow long scan sensor bar with one row of light sensitive pixels on its surface for black&white scans or three rows instead for color scans, one pixel row for green, one for blue and one for red light. Scanning sensors may be used in professional repro cameras. Adventurous amateur tinkerers have also created their own scanning cameras.
The principle of the camera is that the sensor bar is moved along the image plane by a stepper motor. During its travel its light sensitive surface is exactly in the image plane and facing the lens. The step movements are interrupted for the scan of each image pixel row. Thus the sensor bar's movement is comparable with the movement of the slit of a focal plane shutter of an analog camera. But the focal plane shutter moves at fast speeds as slit whilst the sensor of a scanner camera might need more time for its travel.
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| Home-made scanner camera image by Antonio Giordano (Image rights) |
