Build a DIY full-frame CCD camera 

How he do that tho, there is still new olds stock of CCD? or companies still produce CCD sensors?

​@@NetvoTVThere are probably niche applications that still use CCD sensors instead of CMOS. And there are a lot of companies that make image sensors that are not targeted at consumer (or even classic imaging), but medical/military/etc... so I'm sure there are some old runs of that kind of equipment that still uses CCDs for historical reasons.

CCD will never stop they are still used in medical, genomic research,drug discovery, astronomy, telescopes and much more only not in consumer electronics

I was just about to say the same thing! What unique effects... quite gorgeous really.

Being able to make a ful frame CCD working at all as a hobby project is seriously impressive. I would like to make a digital back for my classic cameras and if I don't want a crazy crop factor using a sensor like this is the way to go.

Just like the famous Brian Eno quote: > “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature,” artist and producer Brian Eno wrote in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. “CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.”

getting the data sheets for these non commercial image sensors is the hard part

hey you might be interested in making a camera from a scanner, look it up! its super interesting, you can get like 400MP out of it xD

Thanks! Currently working on the next revision, had to redesign majority of the things so it's taking a bit long

Working for Leica since half a year as an imaging software engineer, I must disagree. There has been a huge amount of progress in image sensor technology over the years. It's basically been an arms race. Withhin the last 15 years, we went from plain and simple sensors like in this video to very sophisticated devices, offering great noise performance, dynamic range now comparable to analog film and sensor readout rates that could be only dreamt of until recently. Global shutter full frame DSLRs are slowly emerging too (Sony a9 III), but having a global shutter complicates the design and introduces a lot of noise, so it's a huge technological challenge - especially when it's to be made large resolution. What advantages do old CCDs have over modern CMOS sensors?

In fact this project started as an attempt to make open source digital backs for film bodies. Later the scope was reduced to basically just get the digital part working and care less about how to actually integrate it with a film camera.

It's far from being ready, I am currently actively working on the next revision