Tentative Specifications:
Type | Scanner Camera |
Sensor | AMS (TAOS) TSL1406RS photodiode array, 768x1 px |
Dimensions | 175 x 120 x 130mm (L x W x D, including lens), 175 x 120 x 74mm (without lens) |
Image size | 1024 x 768 px (65mm x 48mm physical image) |
Image format | 16-bit grayscale PGM (portable gray map), 48-bit color PPM |
Power | 3.7v Lithium Polymer cell, 850 mAh |
Integration time | 1/15000 - 1/10 seconds |
Lens | Mamiya-Sekor 645 80mm f/2.8 N |
Display | 1.8" Color TFT, 160 x 128 px |
Weight | Approx. 1 kg |
Wish I could see the photos , but not loading. In the 1990s I worked at a Greyhound Racing Track in the Television department. I had envisioned a camera like this for PhotoFinish as a Linear Array CCD "Slit" camera is much like moving the film across a slit camera with a Blender Motor (which is what they used) . They could have produced near instant PhotoFinish results to every TV on site and every off Track Wagering site. It also came to mind as a very superior way to shoot street images. Connect it to a bicycle wheel kind of trailer drive down the road while it is rolling and you get a good undistorted view of storefronts rather than stitched images like Google Street view has. There was a New Zealand Site which had some images of their town like this that I found later and I assumed this is how it was done. You need to track the speed of the vehicle in conjunction with the image in order to be able to stretch it or shrink it. If you do not know how a PhotoFinish camera works its worth looking into . The resulting film shows the racers in the order they crossed the line . Is that the St. Johns Bridge? Yuo said the Oregon Coast but that would be m Home town, Portland.