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lid writes
On 2007-04-14 02:24:43 -0400, said:

On Apr 6, 10:07 pm, "Pat" wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:28 pm, wrote:

Let's for the moment we think "out of the box". If there is a
product
which has the shape of either a 35 mm or 120filmcartridge, and you
can just load itintoyour oldfilmcamera.
heavily edited, for brevity

It's been done. The old Nikons had removeable backs. When things
first went digitial, you would swap off the back and put on adigital
back.
Hello, Pat:
The Nikon SLR "digital backs" were supplied by Kodak, however.
Cordially,
John Turco

And also, it wasn't just the back, the body was modified as well. Kodak
made two series one out of Nikon bodies and the other with a Canon body.

Not with all of them - the early Kodak backs fitted specific UNMODIFIED
Nikon and Canon camera bodies and could be used interchangeably with
film backs. The only "modification" was the special focus screen, which
was an interchangeable item on the cameras in any case.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...odak/index.htm shows an
early Kodak back that fitted on a standard Nikon F3.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...dak/index1.htm shows
the DCS-4xx series which fitted standard Nikon F90/N90 series cameras -
check the note near the top of the page, interchangeable with a standard
film back.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...dak/index2.htm shows
the DCS-1c 3c and 5c series designed for unmodified Canon EOS cameras.

The Kodak manuals (downloadable from the pages) also state these backs
are compatible with unmodified cameras.

These cameras all had electronic shutter controls accessible through the
motor drive interfaces and, importantly, a space of several millimetres
between the film plane and the shutter blind.

Later Kodak backs used modified cameras.
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