Hi all
On my way to Mozilla Festival and a crazy Friday question popped into my
head!
Has anyone experimented with low budget digitisation, based on things like
webcams, mobile phones, Raspberry Pi, or any other home diy type kit? I'm
not talking preservation quality, I'm talking get your family photographs
and small keepsakes online for sharing and crowdsourcing.
Yes, decent enough scanners are cheap, but not so quick and easy, and can't
do 3d objects. I already find myself posting phone snaps of old photographs
on Flickr just for speed and convenience, and optics and sensor quality is
increasing all the time. Lighting is key, but low energy led strips are
great!
On the software side, with browser based technology like webRTC -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC - combined with some phones and webcams
now offering 4k (not yet supported by webRTC just yet) you can start
getting reasonable resolution from an integrated web-based solution,
without needing dedicated software and/or a multi-step workflow.
Ok, brain dump over. Now bring me back to reality!
Cheers, James
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