ScanCamera

Greetings developers, This app is awesome and very practical. I used it to take a picture of a prescription bottle label by rigging up a strong light, a miniature camera tripod for the phone, and the bottle spinning on my turntable at 33 1/3 rpm. The settings I used were: - 60fps - lamp mode center vertical - scan width 16. This yielded a scan duration of 2 seconds. Although the label was usable and legible, there was some overlap and jagged artifacts resulting from the slight periodic difference between ScanCamera and the turntable (2.0 vs 1.8 seconds). I think it would have been improved by matching the scan speed to the rotation period of the table. Would you consider adding a "turntable" function to the app that would raise the scan rate by 11%? Does the Apple camera API allow you to scan at 120 or 240fps? Sincerely, Brad Chapman

iOS 12 incompatibility fixed, works great!

ScanCamera offers two distinct slit-scan modes that are very fun to use and experiment with and offer a variety of very different photographic interpretations of the scene. In the Moving slit/lamp mode the scene is captured as though it were scanned with a flat bed scanner, moving objects get squished or stretched, and rotating objects such as many carnival rides get turned into beautiful spiral sculptures. Setting the slit to move in a direction perpendicular to the motion of the object can result in beautiful abstract images. Panning the camera side to side or up and down during the exposure can result in interesting mirroring(s) and elongations of the scene. In the Fixed slit/lamp mode you get a result similar to panning your camera with a moving object, isolating the moving objects in the scene from the stationary background in a beautifully surreal like way. Aligning the silt across a curve in the road or railroad tracks can yield some unexpectedly stunning results too. See the ScanCamera flickr group for examples of all the above and much more... The new continuous shooting mode in the 1.6 update allows you to skip image review between shots, allowing you to focus on image capture and take a series of shots as quickly as possible; a small but important improvement that makes the app much more fun and rewarding to use. After three months I'm still finding new and fun ways to use this app.

II like this app. You have to be aware that this is not just another photography app with retro-looking filters to take picture of your food. ScanCamera is a different kind of tool, for those who want to experiment and take different, more artistic pictures. It records lines of pixels, basically scanning your CCD one line or column at the time, enabling you to distort the time, narrow or enlarge your field of view, etc. The concept is a bit difficult to understand until you try it. But the program is well made and the controls are intuitive so once you download it, it is a matter of seconds until you can explore the new possibilities.

Thanks for the app dev! Any chance you have instructions and more examples of what images are produced? Maybe some before using this app and after using this app showing the same subject.