{"id":754219,"date":"2026-08-30T04:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:36:29","slug":"panoramic-photography-with-a-linear-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754219\/","title":{"rendered":"Panoramic Photography With A Linear Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although digital photography took a big bite of the film industry\u2019s lunch, it wasn\u2019t able to completely eliminate the need \u2014 or desire \u2014 for photographers to use film in some situations. But digital information from a camera sensor can be manipulated to augment the natural physical capabilities of a camera in ways not really feasible for film. High dynamic range images, focus and exposure stacking, and automatic panoramic stitching. This camera takes the latter example to the extreme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Philo]\u2019s proof of concept was a smartphone camera set on a chair and rotated around a room. Some software grabbed a single column of pixels as it moved and stitched them all together to form an image. This came out well enough that the idea was refined a few times, but it wasn\u2019t until a single-line digital camera meant for imaging assembly lines was found that this really took off. Using the camera and some custom software, [Philo] was eventually able to take some of the longest panoramic images we\u2019ve seen, using things like railways and boats as the track the camera rides on, with accelerometer data to help stabilize the image.<\/p>\n

The results speak for themselves. There\u2019s a bit of wobble from the movement of the various vehicles despite the accelerometer data, but given that the image is coming from a sensor meant for examining conveyor belts, it\u2019s hard to complain. Of course, if you want to stick to film, there are panoramic film cameras available too<\/a> even if they don\u2019t quite have the reach of this digital one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although digital photography took a big bite of the film industry\u2019s lunch, it wasn\u2019t able to completely eliminate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}