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Digifilm
A retrofit for all that great 35mm equipment. | |
I would like someone to develop a digital camera array that
fits
into the space normally occupied by conventional 35mm film
canisters. The unit would be P shaped with a very thin arm
containing the array itself while the body (where the film
would normally be coiled) would contain a the memory,
a
small
battery and a Bluetooth array for ferrying the pictures out
to
your PC. To maintain the Retro-Mod quality the camera
would
give no external cue that it was now a digital camera.
Triggering the array would be caused by a second polarized
array that detects the opening of the apeture. To conserve
the battery a motion sensor would sleep the unit while in
storage. I know that every aspect of this is possible
including
the compact imaging array.
Untold thousands of wonderfull
attractive high quality conventional cameras are being
discarded every year in the switch to digital. I believe that
many enthusiasts born and raised setting their F-stops and
loving their old faithfull cameras would snap up such an
upgrade. Seasons greetings to all.
Digital Backs
http://en.wikipedia...Digital_camera_back
Wiki's take on the subject. [DrCurry, Dec 25 2008]
First Google turned up this.
http://findarticles...93/is_/ai_n24342217
[AbsintheWithoutLeave, Dec 25 2008]
A picture.
http://www.imaging-...EWS/1000760900.html
[AbsintheWithoutLeave, Dec 25 2008]
like this?
http://photo.net/di...opping-forum/008cxN
[Ian Tindale, Dec 25 2008]
[link]
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You can get digital backs for a lot of the better film cameras. Slip the old one off and the digital back on. |
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You mean like the never-quite-made-it-to-market Irvine of about ten years ago? [link]. |
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35mm will make a comeback, especially among the new technophobes the world is starting to see. |
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so close, so teasingly, promisingly possible and yet I cannot
buy one. Somebody, re-tool your cheap korean knockoff
camera factory today, there's money here. And forget the
patent, all you need is some bells and whistles and bob's
your uncle. |
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i imagine that a nowadays-digital camera, that can
swap lenses is still a pretty penny. While the used analogs are not so bad. Am i wrong? I've quit
even going to the pawn shop with mine. Not of
value there, as it were. |
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I'm at an initial stage of a brainstorm ( where
stupid is as welcome as not stupid ), a universal
do-hickey that combines with the mirrors to allow
view finder viewing of the pics, vid. |
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yea, sure the Ol aperature can be open or closed .
No film to react.
... |
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um , well still working on it. I take back my , 'yea,
sure. |
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I had not thought of this before. I like it.
If only they hadn't used 35mm to begin with. So
un-Inchs. |
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My latest acquisition, at the beginning of this month we're
now at the end of, is a Voigtländer VF135. I really like it. I
had one earlier in the beginning of this year, and swapped
it for a faulty old Voigtländer Vitomatic II with a friend,
but have lately really missed such a simple yet enjoyable
little rangefinder, so I found another on ebay and bought
it now for twenty quid. I've been using it constantly since,
often with a tiny Olympus flash. I've just had two rolls of
Fuji Neopan 400 through it, developed in the last of my
new Ilfosol 3, which worked out quite nicely, but I've put
some Ilford FP4+ in it now, pushed one stop to 250. We'll
see how that turns out. Such a good lens. |
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