If I'm going to do it, all I really need is a large format lens, of which I have 3. I also have an enlarger lens, not worth much, I could probably test with. I'd then just build a crude box/bellows thing.
Does that sound right to you?
My big problem is a robotic X/Y axis camera mover. There are plenty of kits/ideas in the CNC world, but I want to make something cheap that you, or anyone could build.
What I've done with my panobots is use counter-weights to make the camera virtually weightless. In that way, cheap servos can move it up/down, left/right.
1. I get/build an open-end box that will take a large-format lens in the front.
2. I build a sliding open-end box for the camera movement plane on the back.
3. I build an X/Y camera mover that will take X number of images from the front lens projection.
I may not need a large sensor. The 4/3rds are after better clarity and depth of field, but for what you're doing you don't really care if you're getting 100 images from a small sensor or 20 from a large one, do you?
BTW, I will probably use a Sigma SD14, which has a large sensor and, I believe, has the most color accurate sensor available.
Any thoughts on this plan? THANKS for all your insight so far!
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