Update your Pentax SLR to a DSLR?

Autonerd · 05-30-2020, 11:59 PM

Originally posted by Dieseler

Anyone seen this?

I'm Back® 35 - An 50's camera that takes digital photos? by Samuel Mello Medeiros ? Kickstarter

Could be interesting!

Oh, Lord ha' mercy, why?????

Lord Lucan · 06-08-2020, 02:00 AM

Originally posted by Dieseler

Anyone seen this?

Oh no, not again! It's not just "back", it's in orbit.

The inventor is not very forthcoming about how it works, but from what I can make out the film in the host camera is replaced by a ground glass screen. A second camera, a tiny digital one housed in the chimney structure at the back, with a 14MPx 1/2.33 sensor (the size of a little finger nail), takes a photo of this ground glass screen via a mirror.

We discussed this thing to death fairly recently in the thread linked by Nickthetasmaniiac above, and here as well : Turn your film camera into a digital camera for $249 - PentaxForums.com

I would say that the consensus was that the pictures it takes are lousy, the handling is clunky, we agreed to differ on whether you could call it "Full Frame" or not (the sensor is tiny but the host camera is FF), and some thought the idea at least is cool but others thought it sucks chunks.

06-08-2020, 02:00 AM	#17
Lord Lucan Pentaxian Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: South Wales Photos: Gallery Posts: 2,961	Originally posted by Dieseler Anyone seen this? Oh no, not again! It's not just "back", it's in orbit. The inventor is not very forthcoming about how it works, but from what I can make out the film in the host camera is replaced by a ground glass screen. A second camera, a tiny digital one housed in the chimney structure at the back, with a 14MPx 1/2.33 sensor (the size of a little finger nail), takes a photo of this ground glass screen via a mirror. We discussed this thing to death fairly recently in the thread linked by Nickthetasmaniiac above, and here as well : Turn your film camera into a digital camera for $249 - PentaxForums.com I would say that the consensus was that the pictures it takes are lousy, the handling is clunky, we agreed to differ on whether you could call it "Full Frame" or not (the sensor is tiny but the host camera is FF), and some thought the idea at least is cool but others thought it sucks chunks. Last edited by Lord Lucan; 06-08-2020 at 05:17 AM. Reason: Clarity

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Autonerd Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Los Angeles, CA Photos: Gallery Posts: 156	Originally posted by Dieseler Anyone seen this? I'm Back® 35 - An 50's camera that takes digital photos? by Samuel Mello Medeiros ? Kickstarter Could be interesting! Oh, Lord ha' mercy, why?????

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