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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.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday November 17 2019, @11:28AM
There are massive technical problems with fitting a digital back to a film camera (even assuming the back is interchangeable in the first place) if you want more than an extrememly basic and awkward-to-use camera. Digital backs on cameras designed for film are really confined to medium or large format studio use where there is time for setting things up.
Manufacturers always were introducing new cameras anyway. Even in film days it was rare for a consumer grade camera to be produced for more than a couple of years (professional cameras lasted longer - the Nikon F3 and Pentax LX both went 20 years). So why not produce digital one when the tech became avaialble?