One fun thing is that the camera is that the projection is perspective in the vertical axis and othographic in the horizontal axis. That's why "zooming out" is done by squashing the image horizontally.
Imagine taking a picture with a regular camera of a person nearby and a statue 16x times as large but 16x further away. Both figures would have the same apparent size: they would show up as the same number of pixels in width and height. However, with a line scan camera, the apparent width of objects does not change with distance. Those same objects would have the same apparent height, but the width of the larger statue would be 16x.
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One fun thing is that the camera is that the projection is perspective in the vertical axis and othographic in the horizontal axis. That's why "zooming out" is done by squashing the image horizontally.
Imagine taking a picture with a regular camera of a person nearby and a statue 16x times as large but 16x further away. Both figures would have the same apparent size: they would show up as the same number of pixels in width and height. However, with a line scan camera, the apparent width of objects does not change with distance. Those same objects would have the same apparent height, but the width of the larger statue would be 16x.