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How to Make Vintage-Looking Photos With a Scanner
GeekSugar — ... to make your photos look like now-defunct Polaroids, and now I've found a tutorial from Make that teaches you to turn an old flatbed scanner into a scanner camera that produces noir-ish black and whites, like in this dog picture. ...

Turn a Flatbed Scanner into a Giant Camera
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... sized holes into black cards to use as apertures. That's it. The image is focussed by moving the inner box in and out, and the light levels can be controlled with the black cards. The images are amazing, and best of all, if you have a Canon LiDE scanner like the one in the video, it's powered from the USB bus so you could even hook this up to a laptop and go shooting outside. I will be trying this out over the next few days. I'll let you know how I get on. Weekend Project: Scanner Camera [Make via Lifehacker] ...

How To Make a Scanner Camera
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... That's it! A few extra pieces of card are taped around the edges to block light from entering the scanner. You could, as the Make article suggests, use a thick baseboard to make moving the camera on and off the scanner a little easier. I just went at it with lovely, lovely gaffer tape. In fact, this is where I messed up for the second time -- I taped the outer box down, meaning that it couldn't slide. This was fixed with a few slashes and yet more tape. ...