I'm afraid of electronics, but I came across this and thought someone might find it interesting. The guy made a scanning back out of a flatbet scanner.

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-better-scanner-cam.html

-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), November 05, 2001

Answers

How long does it take to take a picture?

-- wdnagel (wdnagel@home.com), November 05, 2001.

I don't know. It looks a bit weird, but I figured it might triger someone's brain. I figured you strap that puppy on an 8x10 and you'd have OKis results, though I'm not up to the experiment. Dean

-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), November 05, 2001.