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Turn Your Scanner Into a Digital Camera

By Gizmodo Published September 25, 2002, 11:39 am ET

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DIY Gadget Watch: A guy at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology has figured out how to convert a scanner into a serviceable digital camera. He manages to take some pretty decent panaromaic photos with it too.

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