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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 jelizondo on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:47AM (2 children)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:47AM (#921143) Journal

    Isn't like adding milk to coffee? Ruins the coffee and ruins the milk. :-)

    Why add a probably not very good digital camera to a probably very good film camera?

    If you want digital, there is plenty of very good ones out there; the same goes for SLR.

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  • (Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Sunday November 17 2019, @06:17AM

    by ChrisMaple (6964) on Sunday November 17 2019, @06:17AM (#921200)

    To the best of my knowledge, there are no fixed-mirror digital cameras comparable to the film Canon Pellix or EOS RT. I would love such a camera.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @08:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @08:02AM (#921209)

    Why add a probably not very good digital camera to a probably very good film camera?

    I agree about the quality of the digital camera, not the best, and yes, the film camera might be very good, but do a quick trawl of the usual online secondhand/used souks, there are a hell of a lot of very good film cameras out there to be had for ridiculously small sums, in fact, if you ask around you might end up with both bodies, glass and ancillary equipment for free (I'm not a Nikon man, but was once given a whole bag of expensive back-in-the-day Nikon flash gear gratis when purchasing some old Minolta and Olympus glass, and I've had old camera bodies in various states of usability thrown in for free when purchasing lenses..)

    It might be sacrilege, but I'd rather someone frankensteined this old gear, even if only for the gits and shiggles, than see it just being scrapped.