If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Turning film cameras into digital cameras
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 120 film cartridge, and you can just load it into your old film camera. However, this product acts like a digital "film", in which it will store images in digital format, instead of into film, would you buy such a product? It is just exactly like your old film cartridge, put into the back of your camera, set the camera as it has a film in it, advance the lever , take photos, go to next shot, etc. The difference would be when you complete the shots (24 or 36 exposure), you connect this cartridge to your computer and downloaded the digital data, just like a media card in your digital cameras. This product would be re-used again and again, just like the digital cameras. Some of you may said that is the same question whether there is a "back cartridge" that can be fitted into the old Hasselblad, Mamiya RB or M645, in which it changes into digital cameras. However, I heard that this speacil back is very expensive. Correct me if such a product exist for professional photographers, but at a very high costs! (such that it is just easier to throw away the old cameras and buy a new digital one). The next question is whether technically this is possible. Will people buy them, and use their old cameras (which some had invested heavily before the digital era came to play). This sounds like a crazy idea, but I sometime wonder that if it is possible. There are lots of smart people and inventors in this world, and I am sure they have the brain to create such a product. I am sure that this would not be welcomed by digital cameras' manufacturers, as it will compete with their product. Although some of the "players" are still the same (Kodak, Fuji, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, etc). Unfortunately, we are living in a world which are driven by narrow "track of minds", set by big corporations which decided upon our direction into the future. Thanks for sharing my "dream". I am now awake from my day dreaming. Thanks for the discussion. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Turning film cameras into digital cameras | [email protected] | Digital Photography | 106 | May 8th 07 06:03 PM |
Digital Cameras,Cameras,Film,Online Developing,More | Walmart | General Equipment For Sale | 0 | December 16th 04 11:52 PM |
turning traditional cameras into digital cameras | Dan Jacobson | Digital Photography | 15 | October 31st 04 04:37 PM |
Which is better? digital cameras or older crappy cameras thatuse film? | Michael Weinstein, M.D. | In The Darkroom | 13 | January 24th 04 09:51 PM |
Which is better? digital cameras or older crappy cameras that use film? | [email protected] | Film & Labs | 20 | January 24th 04 09:51 PM |