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turning traditional cameras into digital cameras
Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the
conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Or is turning traditional cameras into digital cameras never worth the fuss? |
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Dan Jacobson wrote:
Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Or is turning traditional cameras into digital cameras never worth the fuss? I don't think that this realy a good idea to try. Assuming that you are a a tinkerer in a shed/garage/home workshop, there are more than a few hurdles to adapting a a camera to digital. - The first is that if you wanted to use that electronincs straight out of an existing digicam, you would have to pay a fairly large amount of money for a high megapixel camera to justify the conversion. - Secondly, most digicam sensors are quite small (see http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glos...r_Sizes_01.htm ) and would have a large crop-factor of around 4 (eg: a 50mm film lens would become a 200mm when used with the digital sensor). - Thirdly, most of the higher resolution (and high cost) digicams have reasonably good optics on them already which are optimised for the sensor and probably have a good zoom range and moderate distortion to start with. - Forthly, you film camera would need to gutted completely and would probably have the lens-mount as the only re-usable part. - Fifthly, it would be nessesary to build mounting systems to house the inards of a digicam inside the body of your (now dead) film camera and making sure everything is aligned properly is no easy task. It is very easy to have something slightly askew by accident. Just some of my thoughts on the subject..... |
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Dan Jacobson wrote:
Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Or is turning traditional cameras into digital cameras never worth the fuss? I don't think that this realy a good idea to try. Assuming that you are a a tinkerer in a shed/garage/home workshop, there are more than a few hurdles to adapting a a camera to digital. - The first is that if you wanted to use that electronincs straight out of an existing digicam, you would have to pay a fairly large amount of money for a high megapixel camera to justify the conversion. - Secondly, most digicam sensors are quite small (see http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glos...r_Sizes_01.htm ) and would have a large crop-factor of around 4 (eg: a 50mm film lens would become a 200mm when used with the digital sensor). - Thirdly, most of the higher resolution (and high cost) digicams have reasonably good optics on them already which are optimised for the sensor and probably have a good zoom range and moderate distortion to start with. - Forthly, you film camera would need to gutted completely and would probably have the lens-mount as the only re-usable part. - Fifthly, it would be nessesary to build mounting systems to house the inards of a digicam inside the body of your (now dead) film camera and making sure everything is aligned properly is no easy task. It is very easy to have something slightly askew by accident. Just some of my thoughts on the subject..... |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:35:52 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Many years ago, I saw in an electronics magazine, and device which was the size of a 35mm roll of film with some film protruding, which fitted in a regular camera. From above, it looked like a letter 'P', and it had a sensor where the film would be. Nothing ever came of it, which is a shame as I thought it was quite a clever idea actually. -- Chris Pollard CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines http://www.cginternet.net |
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Christopher Pollard wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:35:52 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Many years ago, I saw in an electronics magazine, and device which was the size of a 35mm roll of film with some film protruding, which fitted in a regular camera. From above, it looked like a letter 'P', and it had a sensor where the film would be. Nothing ever came of it, which is a shame as I thought it was quite a clever idea actually. The website still exists - http://www.siliconfilm.com/ I don't think it's been updated in several years; they must've paid upfront for the domain name for 10 years or so. |
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Christopher Pollard wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:35:52 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Many years ago, I saw in an electronics magazine, and device which was the size of a 35mm roll of film with some film protruding, which fitted in a regular camera. From above, it looked like a letter 'P', and it had a sensor where the film would be. Nothing ever came of it, which is a shame as I thought it was quite a clever idea actually. The website still exists - http://www.siliconfilm.com/ I don't think it's been updated in several years; they must've paid upfront for the domain name for 10 years or so. |
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If you could overcome all the other problems mentioned, the huge advantage
would be that you have easy access to clean your CCD! -- Hugh Jorgan "Dan Jacobson" wrote in message ... Sorry that this has surely been discussed already, but what were the conclusions about turning traditional cameras into digital cameras by Say, sliding a sensor pad where the film goes. Perhaps the shutter would be kept on "bulb", replaced by software. Or is turning traditional cameras into digital cameras never worth the fuss? |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:46:42 GMT, Matt Ion wrote:
The website still exists - http://www.siliconfilm.com/ That looks like it. Although I'm not inspired by the number '320' next to the image... Is that the resolution? -- Chris Pollard CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines http://www.cginternet.net |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:46:42 GMT, Matt Ion wrote:
The website still exists - http://www.siliconfilm.com/ That looks like it. Although I'm not inspired by the number '320' next to the image... Is that the resolution? -- Chris Pollard CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines http://www.cginternet.net |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:02:13 +0800, Christopher Pollard
wrote: That looks like it. Although I'm not inspired by the number '320' next to the image... Is that the resolution? Having read further, it's not. it's 4.2MP. -- Chris Pollard CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines http://www.cginternet.net |
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