Ok, THIS was absolutely precious! I was at the edge of my seat, whimpering as though I watching a child open their gift and learning how it works... but then broke down laughing at the 12:50 markpoint when you said this little scanner is something "you can stick in your thermal typewriter bag"... so matter-of-factly, as though EVERYONE has a thermal typewriter bag! 🤣 Loved the video Joe, and yes I clicked the thumbs up button, as always!
Wondering what would happen if you took the film back off a large format camera and tried to scan the aerial image from the lens.. You would have to do under a dark cloth of course.
Next video...make your own copy machine! 1. Get a box. 2. Find a used 3-D printer. 3. Replace filament head with this scanner.4. Install a sheet of glass... etc, etc, etc..
i get one but error light for calibration dont turn off and i cant make nothing sadly. there s other model that have auto scan feature. instead manually thing
I am just here because I am wondering if these can do a distortion free scan. What makes me wonder is that a hand might not move the wand entirely straight. This would require some sort of software and possibly hardware trick to correct.
Lots of Chinese knockoffs of these magic wand scanners on Amazon for around $60-$80 now. I have one now that I will say is pretty easy to use, but like you showed scanning your 1 long page, the image looks arced and not straight. Well there is no way to keep a consistent motion going down the page as well as keep the scanner in a perfectly straight line. I thought this would be good to scan arcade graphics on the sides of a game. With the inconsistency of being able to move it, keep steady, and keep straight, it makes it impossible to do more than 1 image and stitch them together. The variations are just too great to line up in any easy way in Photoshop or an image program. I thought this would work, and it does to an extent for single page documents that fit within it's boundaries. Go above that and it's just junk.
