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.

all the tinkering has paid off, i've got xsane working to control the scanner!

hoisted the thumbcutter up on the window and took some backyard photos. looking past all the exposure problems, these shots feel so wild to me even though they're so mundane. feels like there's lots of depth, sense of space? idk

the previous strip of good exposure in a sea of darkness is now a strip of clip with a small gradient of good exposure around it, then quickly fading off, but with much better corner details than the indoor shot.

i do believe this is a scanning problem and not a lens one, because looking back at the scannographs with my nikon lens in them reveals that those tiny image circles also possess the top-bottom vignette. interesting.

while i still do not fully understand the scanner ive seen mentions that there is slight parallaxing as the scanning head moves. maybe this means that at the top and bottom the light comes in at a shallow angle, and suffers loss, then head-on in the center where it's picked up nice and bright. how is this counter-acted? probably through modifying the scanner, which I cannot do with my houses printer/scanner :P

i hunted some thrift stores today but they have piles and piles of combo printer/scanners, no dedicated scanners. soon. soon progress will be able to be made...

fair warning im very sleep deprived right now and may soon catch the flu from my housemates so maybe this is all the ramblings of a mad plushie before certain doom.

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