Sorry to get your hopes up, but is this actually feasible*. Can we actually Frankenstein this out of parts such as a light box and camera. I say this as I have an actual slide scanner that I use from time to time in windows. It does slides and some negatives along with some proprietary software to drive it and take stuff.
I've not taken it apart to see how it works, but I'm guessing its a small scanner with a light box at the base to highlight the slide and a button on top to capture. And I'm wondering, could this all be done with a Raspberry pi.
Looking on line it seems I'm not the only one to have had this idea. See here, here and here, but the way I was looking at doing it was integrating a light box and a Raspberry pi with a camera module to capture stuff. The caveat for this is, I've barely thought this through and most of the stuff uses an external camera for capture rather than the Pi camera module and board.
I'm well aware that this probably won't work and would need some sort of external program such as S.A.N.E in Linux for it to run. But it just struck me whilst scanning in stuff. Couldn't they use the camera and mount to take shots of the slide and sent it to a pc for processing.
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