Digital cameras are getting better resolution all the time, and some volunteers have experimented with making a kind of home-made planetary scanner from a digital camera and a stand.
So far, the results don't quite match a dedicated scanner, but as digital cameras improve, this may become a common option.
They are really not scanners at all, but a very high-end digital camera on a stand.
Whatever the current problems, the prospect of using digital cameras is exciting, because it will mean that non-typists will be able to produce old books borrowed from libraries without worrying about scan quality vs. damage to the spine.
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Consider, for example, a user who is trying to determine whichdigitalcamerato buy.
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The cell images were recorded with adigitalcameraand processed to generate high-resolution images.
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This procedure creates adigitalcamera-lucida drawing and can be done readily using microscope objectives having different magnifications.
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Input can be taken from scanner ordigitalcameraimage files or from a video camera.
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The glow discharge was photographed using adigitalcamera.
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Furthermore, the field tests were carried out in good daylight conditions, such that image stabilization was not an issue even with a more sophisticateddigitalcamera.
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When connected to adigitalcamerait is sufficiently powerful to allow on-board image processing, and it has the means of interacting with other sensors and actuators with high precision.
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Thedigitalcamerais 'played' in time, somewhat like an instrument in the process of gathering material with a specific effect or image movement in mind.
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Adigitalcameraphotographed the discharge light.
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An advantage of thedigitalcamerawas that only a single image file was taken for each focal level and dendritic section (compared to three color slides for photography).
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Even after that, it was not noisy enough to register on adigitalcamera.
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The combination of a precision rotator and adigitalcameraallows the photographer to take rectangular slices of any scene (indoors or outdoors).
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However, the film was not qualified for the competition section, because it had been filmed indigitalcameraformat.
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A last minute addition to the payload was an inexpensivedigitalcamera.
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One day, she finds mysterious pictures from the dream world in herdigitalcamera.
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