06-08-11 – Scanner As Camera

U-Man
I hope you’ll hang out here a bit, ask questions, participate–you’ll find you’ll become a better photographer, and that pays in spades outside the contests. But besides all of that–it’s fun to do!!

I had to lol a little. I’ve been a member on the site since 2008. 🙂

I just don’t participate as much as I want. [/quote]

I have to ask: Am I the only one who still owns an analog clock? I thought there would be several similar entries and it would just do –meah– because of it.

That clock was purchased for ‘All Night Long’; nice to have gotten to repurpose it for this contest. Makes the $5 investment only $2.50 per contest.

img055 by MusicInPictures.net (Ken Cote), on Flickr

I didn’t use it because yours was better. I tried slowing the scanner down as much as I could but I never got a good sweep of the second hand.

Rav: How many tries did it take you to get the secondhand perfectly horizontal as the scan bar passed it?

About 30. I tried different resolutions; when I found the one that sweeped at the right pace (around a minute), I pulled the battery at 40 seconds, pressed ‘scan’ and put the battery back in in the 3 or so seconds it took till the scan commenced. once there, the second try got the result.

What I didn’t realize, until I was singing the song to myself at 5am while working, was the tie-in to the second hand forming a ‘rough’ image of an eagle, which fits nicely with the ‘time keeps on ticking…’ bit. I think that’s why it was doing well. To think I almost captioned it ‘Timing is everything’, which would have blown the opportunity. Crazy random happenstance. 😛

Rav: How many tries did it take you to get the secondhand perfectly horizontal as the scan bar passed it?

About 30. I tried different resolutions; when I found the one that sweeped at the right pace (around a minute), I pulled the battery at 40 seconds, pressed ‘scan’ and put the battery back in in the 3 or so seconds it took till the scan commenced. once there, the second try got the result.

What I didn’t realize, until I was singing the song to myself at 5am while working, was the tie-in to the second hand forming a ‘rough’ image of an eagle, which fits nicely with the ‘time keeps on ticking…’ bit. I think that’s why it was doing well. To think I almost captioned it ‘Timing is everything’, which would have blown the opportunity. Crazy random happenstance. 😛

Interesting…. Except the song is “Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping….”

Hey all, I just wanted to say THANKS for all your participation. This went beyond anything I imagined. Rav, that is seriously creative. U-man, there was no question about the reference, that was one of the most entertaining threads ever on FARK. Orion, how did you avoid the NSFW? Oh, yeah, it was FRUIT.
High 5’s all around.

I figured out on Saturday that my old scanner is older than they thought – they stopped supporting it at WinXP. Oops.

I had plans, too. Ah well.

I figured out on Saturday that my old scanner is older than they thought – they stopped supporting it at WinXP. Oops.

I had plans, too. Ah well.

i was given a 8.5 x 14 microtek scanner after katrina. just the scanner, had to find a scsi adapter card for it. put it in the 98SE box because the software required 98 or earlier. so recently i built another computer and ran out of space for towers. to keep 98SE had to dual boot* the 98SE HHD in one of my XP Pro HDD boxes. since the hardware is attached when i boot XP it sees it. lo and behold i was able to install both the scanner software and an old sipix camera/webcam in XP and use them.

*it’s actually a triple boot; 98SE, XP Pro and Ubuntu 10.10. BTW i hate grub2.