Fan-tastic Fan Cam & Fan Slit Scans

I’ve been interested in using my ceiling fan as a motion guide for my phone camera. I started by mounting my phone to the blades of the fan and capturing a slow motion video.

I’ve started to play with building rigs off of the fan:

In addition to the simple rigging systems I explored using the fan for slit scanning, with some intriguing results. To the see the original, non-compressed versions of these, click here.

 

Some photos of the slit scan set up: