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Slit-Scan Photography2024 Mar 26
The Horizon Perfekt is a 35mm camera which exposes the film through a rotating lens, creating panoramic negatives wider than the lens can expose at any one moment. What if a digital camera could do the same? Enter slit-scan photography – a digital sensor that's thousands of pixels tall but only one pixel wide. Traditionally used in document scanners and industrial tools, what would a field version of a slit-scan camera look like? Photographer and engineer Daniel Lawrence Lu shows us exactly this on his website, but he doesn't go into much detail on how these photos came to be. Luckily for us, Paul Mison back in 2018 interviewed Lu about his innovative techniques, and we can now learn just how challenging it is to photograph using slit-scan.
The Horizon Perfekt is a 35mm camera which exposes the film through a rotating lens, creating panoramic negatives wider than the lens can expose at any one moment. What if a digital camera could do the same? Enter slit-scan photography – a digital sensor that's thousands of pixels tall but only one pixel wide. Traditionally used in document scanners and industrial tools, what would a field version of a slit-scan camera look like? Photographer and engineer Daniel Lawrence Lu shows us exactly this on his website, but he doesn't go into much detail on how these photos came to be. Luckily for us, Paul Mison back in 2018 interviewed Lu about his innovative techniques, and we can now learn just how challenging it is to photograph using slit-scan.