thank you thrift store
this one is powered entirely off usb and plays nice with xsane and plays nicely with my box camera and is super super light and small
finallyyyyyy a good scanner
now i can get to light sealing the box camera and measuring out focus distances and stuff. hehehehehehehehehehe
image #1&2 was a test shot
image #3 was me messing with the scanner while it was doing something weird (i input weird settings)
image #4 is a portrait with a flashlight held pointed at subjects face. focus was set to infinity because i wasnt about to do the old focus scan refocus shuffle. looks nice and spooky.

my pinhole experiments return in the form of... just taping some tinfoil to the Q and poking a hole thru it with a needle thats wayyyy too high diameter (yet, tighter than my last attempt by a nice margin). the results? incredibly beautiful (especially in video! will share whenever i decide what to do with that footage).

normal shot.

normal shot layered with back focused shot with depth of field increased to cover everything but the subject, and a minimum focus distance shot with minimum depth of field.

same as above but "soft light" layered.

same but composed as RGB.

the 43mm f1.9 has quite a lot of focus breathing so its not too good for this effect, still pretty neat though

pic i took for big ol news thru a huge magnifying glass then shrank and 1 bit dithered

brought to you by the world's worst very large format camera

something about my setup creates wicked vignetting with a long horizontal line of good exposure (im guessing the shape is due to the scanning head being a line)

the lens being adapted is the lens from my overhead projector. i learned a nice bit about optics putting it all together based on intuition, took a few hours of fiddling to get to this current setup

a friend has retrieved the Df and she wanted to take pics with it before sending it to me... and uh....
while the shutter fires, the mirror locks up and has to be forced back into place by hand.
so nearly 3 months and like $200 wasted. pissed off about the repair guy saying its fixed and leaving it in this state without even mentioning it. tomorrow when he opens up shop im calling him to ask him what he did and from there uh. i dunno, maybe he'll fix it. but if he's gonna charge me for another repair i'm just gonna cut my losses and try to sell shit off on ebay and see where that lands me i guess.
i'm trying not to despair until i have a clearer picture after talking to the guy tomorrow but this is pretty crushing.

edit: hes gonna look at it, but itll be weeks before my friend heads back into town to give it to him... this things gonna be outta commission longer than its been in commission...

anyway, photos.
moving the lens with the scanning head produces unpredictable warping. i think this is because i'm not moving it perfectly relative to its movement. this produces some very abstract images.

i've also observed that any image focused through the lens is always greyscale. while i dont know much about scanners, i think this is because the scanner reads color by blasting colored lights at whats on the bed and reading the reflection back, so focused images from elsewhere produce no color data.

these shots were taken by a sunny window, indirectly lit. it seems like its kinda easy to blow out the highlights but adjusting aperture easily controls this. the brighter the ambient light the more you can see vague out of focus forms in the background of the shots, at a certain level of ambient dimness things are pretty well isolated.