>>4303238Man I've been fantasizing about doing something like this, except I actually use my 3d printer so I was planning to cobble it together from chinkshit components like these. Though it might actually be cheaper/easier to start with the cheapest available 3d printer, these linear steppers are like $70 each and I'd need two of them
Kind of curious what would happen if you scanned MF or 4x5 at something absurd like 20k DPI and stitched it, what sort of detail you would get. By my calculations 1:1 should be comparable resolution to drum scanning, but with automated moving and stitching it should be possible to do 2:1, 4:1, etc. with tubes or adapted microscope lenses.
