Mac writes –
“I’ve been wanting to build a 360-degree panoramic scanning camera (or PanoramaScanCam, as I call it) for some time. The planets finally aligned (Actually, I was able to obtained a flatbed scanner and software to support it.), so I’ve started the project. Rather than waiting for completion of the project before posting it, I decided to present development as a blog. I hope to post updates every day or so (there are three days of posts so far). The other websites I’ve found are lacking on how to actually build a panoramic scanning camera. I hope that mine will be sufficiently detailed to enable anyone to build one of their own. I’ll send future posts to the Make blog if there is sufficient interest.” – Link.
Check it out and contact the author / post here if you’re interested – seems like a neat project.
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The optics of this approach are a bit strange. Line scan panoramic cameras are relatively common, but tend to feature the linear sensor as a centered vertical line at the focus of the camera which is rigidly mounted relative to a conventional camera lens. The lens and the sensor are then simultaneously rotated about the nodal point of the lens. Examples of this are:
http://www.panoscan.com/MK3/index.html
and with regard to film linescans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography#Short_rotation