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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 driverless on Sunday November 17 2019, @03:24AM
It was really consumers that decided that hacking up an old camera at a significant fraction of the cost of a new digital one to get a frankenstein not-really-digital made a lot less sense than just buying a purpose-built digital in the first place. This was at best a very, very niche product. Now it's just a curiosity.