how do i convert my flatbed scanner into a still digital camera can some one give me full tech details about how to go about doing the reqd or suggest some website

-- vikram amladi (vvamladi@usa.net), October 15, 1999

Answers

It already is a still digital camera, although it does have severe limits on focusing distance and depth of field.

If you can turn off the internal illumination, and probably crank up the sensitivity, you could put it in the back of a 10x8 camera. You would then have a scanning digital back, for which the manufacturers charge many thousands of dollars. Of course, the 10x8 camera plus lens might also cost you a few thousand dollars, but you can probably get a second-hand unit quite cheaply. It would probably help if you wrote your own driver for the scanner, rather than using the standard one.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan.Gibson@technologist.com), October 15, 1999.

I should add that I doubt that it would work very well. For example, I would expect real problems with colour (the scanner will be calibrated for the colour of its own internal light, rather than daylight).

But if you do get it to work, do tell us about it.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan.Gibson@technologist.com), October 15, 1999.

Um -
Are you pulling our legs?
Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), October 15, 1999.