Originally posted by niceshot solution use the right size sensor, ps also I have a solution for triggering the sensor to coincide with the cameras automatic functions. Instead of using bulb mode, use the native settings of the camera. I Emailed this info to him but it fell on DEAF EARS
There has to be a really good reason he didn't link the imaging to the flash sync or something like that.
I imagine there's some latency in the digital end of things that's hard to predict in a way that would provide useful results over the range of film cameras this thing is meant to be compatible with.
Otherwise, what system would allow communication with a Pentax MX, Nikon F3, and Leica M3? How would you know when to capture the image?
There's going to be some even worse issues with a "right size sensor". Outside of Kodak and Fuji in the 1990s, has anyone seriously tried to put an APS or larger sensor in an existing body?
And my understanding is that the changes Kodak and Fuji made to their Nikon and Canon host bodies were irreversible (so you can't practically turn a DCS460 back into a N90s or whatever it was).
By the time you do that, you might as well make a custom body with modern features that takes the older lenses... which of course is where we are now...
All that said, I'm still on the list of folks who would be marginally interested in a digital back for my MX (since the K1000 back doesn't come off...).
Though something like that would be a toy, and I don't expect anything like the results from a K1...
-Eric