There are some pretty nice photos in this collection. The photo of the tank going across the trench with the guy in it is pretty cool.
Soviet and Russian photography
Category: Photography
Micro images from the BBC
There are a few well done micro images from the BBC web page. Looks more like a photo from NASA than a nasty jungle illness.
The Flying Carpet
Think of this as an analog Google Earth if you would like.
Alavi’s latest project is indeed likely to inspire a myriad of ideas from creatives all over the world when they see how he had an aerial view of the Sacramento River woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge connecting the Sacramento International Airport terminal to the parking garage. It is indeed, a “flying carpet”…
The level of detail that was captured is quite remarkable, I never knew that carpet could hold such an intricate pattern.
Wiggler
I enjoy taking stereo photographs from time to time but many people have a problem viewing them. People either can’t cross their eyes or they can’t do the ‘far look’ thing and fuse the images together. Viewers are great – but they don’t do all that well over the Internet and most people don’t have setups to view them on their computer screens anyway.
So this could be a handy tool. What the Wiggler does is take two photos (or one side by side photo) and adds a sense of the third dimention by alternating them back and forth. Its pretty cool. I have a link at the bottom to an image that I made from two screens from the Google Earth program.
Lower Manhattan has been Wiggled!
A Thousand Eyes Looking At You
Holy cow! Quite the collection of cameras AND sample photos from each of them! Some of these I’ve seen before, heck I even own one or two of them. The sample photos are a show stopper if you ask me, some of the cameras have quite different ways of viewing the subjects. If you ever hear a photographer say that they have a favorite lens because its contrasty, or is gives a certian look to an image this is a great way to get a feel for what they are talking about.
Quite an impressive collection. Make sure you check out the PinPionyrPanorama, very cool! (If you have a pinhole camera you can make those too, just don’t advance the film all the way and turn the camera a bit so you can get full coverage of your subject.)
Panoramic Camera Made From a Flatbed Scanner!
Last December I posted a note about the Panoscan digital panoramic camera and Mr. Sharpless was kind enough to make a comment about how he had built a few cameras that did pretty much the same thing but at a far lower price. Well I asked if he had a web site and I just got a reply saying that he was inspired to put a site up about his creations.
Thank you!!!
My “ScanCams” are panoramic cameras made from old flatbed document scanners and photographic lenses. They take images one vertical line at a time while rotating under control of the scanner’s electronics and drive motor. An attached laptop computer decodes the scan data and records formatted image files, using software I developed.
This kind of camera can have very high resolution and can make very wide images – up to 360 degrees or even more. The vertical field of view, and hence the angular resolution, depends on the lens focal length and the length of the linear image sensor.
I’m used to using a swing lens camera, I use a Russian Horizon 202pretty often, so the ‘limitations’ of such a camera are familiar to me. I don’t have a problem with the whole moving lens thing, it can make for some cool effects.
On the right is my second ScanCam, and the only one currently operational. Its CCD is 42mm long — the length of the diagonal of a 35mm film frame – and it uses Pentax screw mount SLR camera lenses. The sensor has 10,600 pixels, giving an effective resolution of 49 megapixels over the 35mm frame. I usually scan at one-half, one-third or one-quarter of the maximum resolution – roughly 12, 5 or 3 megapixels per frame.
GHAA… 49 megapixels per 35mm frame? Oh yeah… I am eyeing the screws in my HP 7400c scanner even as I type this…
So have a look at his site and go out and build one yourself! Make some art, why don’t ya… 🙂
TKS Digital Scanning Panoramic Camera