little_tippler

This is far more advanced than anything I've done. I haven't actually taken my scanner apart and turned it into a camera, I've just tried using it as a camera all on its own. You can still get plenty of interesting shots. I mainly did self-portraits with it. The cool thing with the scanner is that you can get a surprising amount of detail that most cameras would have trouble capturing. I will post some of my things later on.

If you want to set up something like this, be prepared to trash a few scanners in the process. I haven't yet decided I can spare mine, heh. But I have been tempted...though photography is not my main area of work.

Edit: ok I wasn't sure whether to post my stuff but here goes...it's so easy you really can go to town with it. This I like very much, it worked well. The nicest part about the photos I have taken is that there seems to be details in there that cameras don't quite capture...not sure if it's mood or what...but I really am addicted to it.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918