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    Taking photos with scanners

    Ever fancied taking a digital photo with a flatbed? I'm sure some of you have scanned your face, or maybe other part of you, with a flatbed scanner, but they can infact be made to take 'proper' photos fairly easily. The result of such a 'mod', however, is a 'camera' that creates some very funky images of moving objects. Michael Golembewski has a website dedicated to scanner photography, with some awesome images in the gallery.
    The objects in the scene that were stationary photographed normally, while the objects that were moving were twisted and distorted into wonderful shapes. At first, I thought that this was a mistake, that something was wrong with my new contraption. But I soon realized that the motion of the scanner was meshing with the motion of the recorded scene, creating unexpected, yet predictable, results. These motion distortions are similar to the effect created by moving a sheet on a photocopier mid-copy, except that they extend into three dimensions and only effect objects in motion.
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    there are some really cool images there. I really like the 'grain' you get with it too, adds something to it i think.

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