page_title: Slit-scan photography
hierarchical_section_title: Slit-scan photography
caption_attribution_description: English: Here's a self-portrait I did, using slit-scan apparatus around the mid 1980s
context_page_description: The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed.
  More generally, "slit-scan photography" refers to cameras that use a slit, which is particularly used in scanning cameras in panoramic photography. This has numerous applications.
context_section_description: The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed.
  More generally, "slit-scan photography" refers to cameras that use a slit, which is particularly used in scanning cameras in panoramic photography. This has numerous applications. This article discusses the manual artistic technique.
caption: Example of slit-scan technique (self portrait while typing on computer keyboard).  Camera is rotated into portrait orientation, and slit scan that would originally run left-to-right now runs top-to bottom
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