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Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 16 2019, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The unarguable benefits of digital photography has rendered the analog SLR obsolete for most purposes. This means that a wide selection of cameras and lenses are available on the second hand market for pennies on the dollar, making them ripe targets for hacking. [drtonis] decided to experiment with a quick and easy digital conversion to an old Canon A-1, and it’s got us excited about the possibilities.

It’s a simple hack, but a fun one. The SLR is opened up, and the spring plate for holding the film is removed. A Raspberry Pi camera then has its original lens removed, and is placed inside the film compartment. It’s held in with electrical tape, upon a 3mm shim to space it correctly to work with the original optics.

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  • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:07AM (3 children)

    by Fnord666 (652) on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:07AM (#921133) Homepage

    Depending on the camera body you can use a lot of vintage lenses on DSLRs. Nikon has used the F-Mount for ages now. You can use most F-Mount Nikkor lenses on the current crop of full frame DSLR bodies. Not all, but most. You might lose AF or metering on some but they are usable.

    Same with the EF mounts for Canon. I run a number of my old SLR lenses on my current Canon DSLR with no issues.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:30AM (#921138)

    Yeah...good luck getting some L glass for pennies on the dollar.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:43AM (#921142)

      Go fuck yourself.

      Bet you're glad RMS got cancled for "paedophillia apologism"
      Bet you're even happier he recanted, and is now standing in no-mans land.

  • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Sunday November 17 2019, @03:33AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Sunday November 17 2019, @03:33AM (#921170) Journal

    EF mount hasn't been around as long as the Nikon one but on the plus side it doesn't require a motor inside the camera to work the lens. Although on a camera with minimal support for recording video, having a non-Canon lens with only manual aperture control seems to come in handy.