Is it possible to do this with any point and shoot? Perhaps one that fits in the pocket? Like an Olympus xa, Ricoh GR, or contax t2? If so it would be incredible if the sensor could be at least 12 Megapixels and has to be a full frame sensor. I really hope camera companies wise up to this idea and make them. You should design one first tho. We would all buy it on kickstarter etc. and support you.
Great work. I’d like to try this with decent sensor. Has this been tried by literally unpacking a current phone’s internals - the parts that matter - into a film camera (forgetting about tidy or packaging) to prove proof of concept using commodity off the shelf mobile phone modules? Then skip the ‘screen’ by going directly to WiFi or Bluetooth receiving photo app? Yes, software is the prob. But Android. Strip down an Android instance and leave only the camera app running on a regular Android chipset. Yes rabbit hole(!) More I think about this the more complex it gets. But surely doable! Great work. Subscribed :)
hi! wow, it's a great innovation for analog camera user (especially for SLR). I wonder is it can use for any camera model such as canon, minolta, pentax, ricoh, etc.? or just for nikon only?
You just need to find a donor camera sensor better than the one you are using right? I wonder if we can get it to at least high end phone sensors or even APS-C level...
I'm not sure, but the hardware won't be the issue, but the software that controls the sensor. Anyway, I believe there is chances to develop a software for an array of sensors, and to design the hardware for any film camera. I'm dreaming again after watching this video.
@@torokun I don't see much difference. Still have to modify the camera, expose the sensor, which is still small, adjust the focus plane. The next natural step in this project is to upgrade to bigger sensors. The UI is easy, but the code for the controllers is complex. More data requires more processor, which means more space, more power demand, more heat... Would be a good way to eliminate this steps by use the external processor of a phone or tablet, and the inside camera jig just as a storage and transmitter of the data. Take a photo, stored or sent to the phone in raw data, processed by the phone. The only setting needed in the sensor is ISO equivalent, since the analog camera controls speed and aperture. I guess that the app in the phone could modify this parameter easily. As I see it, is a software thing, now that the concept is proved. I personally was also developing this idea, is this exact physical configuration. I'm happy that he made it real. I'm sure he will get more than 1000 subscribers. Finally, I don't see any issues to design an internal jig for any other camera. Cheers!
@@babenberg to solve the focal plane issue, couldn't one just add a spacer to the flange distance, similar to how mirrorless cameras have adapters? You'd certainly still have to modify the internals of the camera. I don't know exactly how the parts for this project work, but assuming from the size of the battery, few processes happen within this camera except for transmission of data through WIFI, so this is probably already a non-issue. Surely more RAM would be needed with a bigger sensor. Maybe creating a battery pack in place of the spent film spool would be enough juice for a larger sensor, since it seems to be similar in size to many digital batteries.
@Benny Cheng Thank you. The timing is not good right now.We want to grow the community for a while. I'll think about it when we get to 1000 subscribers 😁
Excelente proyecto. Durante años comenté con una de mis hijas que alguien podría construir un senador portátil a las cámaras. Ese día llegó. Felicitaciones por ese logro.
Great project - clever to connect the film winding spindle to an on off switch and it looks like you have the shutter curtain tripping a switch to take the shot? What's the sensor size ? I'm guessing something like 6mm x 4mm. If so it would have something like a 6X crop factor on the 35mm full frame camera, so a 50mm lens would act like 300mm lens and you'd have to frame your shot using a tiny portion in the middle of the viewfinder?
I'm not very good at English, so I'll use a translation tool to answer your questions. FM is unmodified. That's an invaluable camera. I'll take the film retainer off, but I can put it back on. The sensor is constantly acquiring images and transmitting them to your smartphone when the shutter is open and the light is bright. Focusing is very difficult because you have to frame the viewfinder in a small area in the middle of the viewfinder This is the sensor I'm using. ja.aliexpress.com/item/33051369006.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.42f74c4d8kjnSl Here's the module I'm using m5stack.com/collections/m5-unit/products/esp-32-camera-psram I'll be revealing how to make it soon, so stay tuned! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
