I used to know a man like you, he modified digital camara's and hang the from kites ( long before drones) and got amazing photo's. You and him are genius and without you the world is dull. Thank you for the vidio
I've just learn/understood/skimmed this term of 'front and back standards' of a large format camera and this video just puts it all together. Does makes sense now.
wow...i had no idea this could be done. I was searching for the old " pseudo digital film" hoax and ended up here. Hats of to you. I have to admire your patience.
Thanks Sonnet, it was a great fun project. Currently working on another where I have fitted a Nex 3N to a custom made back on a Nikon F3. It's working very well but a bit more fine tuning to do on the sensor focus. I might post a video on this one when it is working properly.
I like this. I've done some camera hacking, and some digicam repairs over the years. I have a Canon point-and-shoot that has focus problems, but isn't throwing a lens error! I may just decide to use it for it's image sensor and electronics instead.
Key takeaway: after seeing the 80 grit sandpaper in close proximity to the holy cow I ain't scared of cleaning my sensors anymore. Anyways, great job, man! Hope I'll do the same with my KNEB Hasselbladski when retired in 20 yrs - sensors gotta grow by then.
Cheers Gustave. The 80 grit was a bit slow by hand so I ended up using the edge of a belt sander. But kinda glad I never put that on TH-cam as it might have been just too much for some viewers. All the best mate.
I had the Sony A7s modified by ATG to fit onto my Contax AX (made by ATG at that time). Robin & ATG can do this but many people may not be able to do. The major benefits on having the Contax AX (by ATG): * All lenses fit onto this body becomes ATG's AF (the world's first) * Much better low light camera than the Sony A7s II * Mounted the ATG's Contax 210/0.03. Not many have ever seen a F0.03 lenses? * ATG Contax Carl Zeiss T* 200mm@F0.03 Kim X3 (AF night vision for video & still) * ATG ADI TTL wireless radio flash can be used with normal & IR photography and videos.
awsome ,Just what i was looking for !!! I find this attempt to rescue an analogous camera very interesting. It would be great if the gadget could adapt to the interior of the camera without altering the original line. It may seem very hipster, but it would be very cool for the sensor just act as a film and to take better advantage of the camera's own options and mechanisms. As well as in the past, having to wait for the reveal to see the result. Thank you for sharing this and I greatly appreciate the humility with which you share this good idea. greetings from Chile good spear !!!!
thanks, i am off to building one, now i have seen this i possible, and relatively simple . ohw your sense off humor is great, made me laugh many times throughout the video. thank you sir, allot
I'd got to 12:04 and I was thinking 'I would of got a roll of gaffer tape by now' and lo and behold, you produce the gaff lol, brilliant video mate really. If I had the time i'd do it. Great stuff and greetings from London UK
On the plus note you will always be more professional in the eyes of the public when shooting with not one but two cameras simultaneously! 😁 Great Video!
Your selling yourself short Min. I am a builder / carpenter with no electronic skills. With a few basic tools this is an easy project. All the best. Robin.
This is Awesome! Not many solutions out there that seem to work as well as this, so it's cool to see that you'd be able to do it yourself. I'll have to save this video in case I get the chance to try this out later, thank you for sharing :)
Hi robin, is it posible to mount it with a shutter that is broken, just leave it open and just mount the motor. dos the system see the shutter by conecting to the motor i think then you can leave it open and the camera slr has a shutter.
Nice one! I'd like to saw off the fixed lens of a Nikon Coolpix A and replace it with an f-mount . I could have the first Nikon APS-C interchangeable mirrorless camera!
Great job on the conversion! Now I look at my Canon A1 & Sony Nex 5 with different eyes. I probably won't take them apart, tho - a EF-Sony E adapter already brought the nifty 50 to my Sony and it performs great there, despite the 1.6x crop :)
Thanks Adrian. I have been eyeing off my Canon A1 also. Looking at the guts of a Canon EOS M on the web, I reckon it might be able to have the shutter flipped out of the way so the sensor could drop into the film rails. It could make a pretty neat unit Canon / Canon. I have adapters for my Sony F3 also but I can tell you that my Nikon FE "electric film" camera seems to take better photos and sure looks, feels and sounds better lol. Regards Robin.
I really like these type of videos where normal people make inventive solutions. I just bought an old eos 35mm camera and af lens at a boot sale for a tenner and was wondering how to maybe add a cheap digital camera on the back so i have a eos camera for less than £20. maybe not an ideal solution will try and be inventive like you.
I knew this would work! This does two things involving film slr cameras, you now can make endless digital images, and use interchangeable lenses. Many of the older camera lenses had really well ground glass in there optics. If you wanted to do this buying a digital back for 35mm cameras it would cost a fortune! This is the way to go, and you learn more about photography in doing so! Now there are even small portable digital cameras with even higher resolution like 16 megapixels, also many of the pocket digital cameras have built in digital effects, as well as in camera editing of images! Robin Guymer you are definitely thinking out of the box! I have some Minolta X-700 camera bodies I am going to try out this method on!
Is this possible for a wooden camera with bellows? In place of a digital sensor, rig a gopro on top of the lens and replace the glass screen with an appropriate tablet device .
I wish you could show me how to do it like step by step on that white little Sony. I'm so addicted! Ps. I got FM2. I appreciate your ideas and really truely love it!
Thanks Kanin. If you go to this site xovercameras.blogspot.com/ I have done a step by step how to series that may help you. The best Sony to use would be either a Nex C3 or a 3N. Both these have a complete flat face that you can cut right back so the Nex sits flat on the camera back. Rather than use the existing back of your camera as FM2's are worth a lot now, you should just make a camera back out of sheet metal. It is quite easy to do. Otherwise buy another Nikon FE or FA that is dead and use the back off that. Have fun with it.
Good on you Akshdeep. See if you can get a Sony Nex3N body as it only has a small handle on the face with no electronics under it. Therefore it will sit perfectly flat across the back of the SLR. If your any good with soldering there is a couple of TH-cam videos showing how to wire in a remote trigger. This means you can fit a button near the SLR shutter trigger. If your using an SLR that won't enable the IR filter to be fitted behind the mirror, then don't worry about it as the camera is more fun without, then being able to shoot entirely in Infra Red. But you will find you need to set the sensor in deeper to get good focus. Just check that the SLR you use has enough distance between the film rails and the shutter curtain so that your rebated sensor will not strike it. After you remove the IR filter off the sensor then also remove the small black separator strips as these can hit the shutter of the SLR, they are only sticky plastic strips. Good luck and get in contact if you need any help. Robin.
Sir, I am so much inspired by your idea. I noticed you're using a motor drive. You might consider using the space in there to put (some of) the guts of the Sony in there? Then find a way to ditch the Sony housing. This would make the design a lot more subtle and pleasing to the eye. Just imagine how cool this camera will look with just an lcd screen on the back to show signs of your digital retrofit. Another idea might be to find one of those clunky Nikon data backs and modify that to fit the electronics into.
Thanks for your nice comments Gabor. Your exactly right about the motor drive potential for housing the digital guts and battery etc. Problem is way out of my ability to do so though as I have zero electronics skills as I am better on a nail gun than a soldering iron. The tricky part is to be able to swap the positions of the sensor and the shutter of the Sony. The shutter is redundant as you are using the shutter of the Nikon but the Sony won't work unless the shutter is connected (potential here to hack the Sony motherboard to negate the shutter). The ribbon cables are just long enough to allow them to reach the sensor over the shutter but mind you I blew up the last set when I stretched them too tight when I built a 16mb digital back onto a F3. You could build a really cool camera if you have the skills. Interesting when I had the F3 working for a while with a 16mb Sony back and the filters removed from the sensor is that I had a whopping 2 stops more light on the sensor compared to the previous setup that was 1 stop more. Hope you have a crack at it. Cheers.
@@RobinGuymer-Gizz Thank you for responding :) Yes, I see what you mean. Perhaps these flex cables exist in a longer version too. But I understand, getting this far was complicated enough. Either way, jolly good thing you engineered there. Quite unique and excellent thinking!
Dear Robin, thanks for the video, it made me laugh a lot at the sheer audacity of it. Fantastic! I didn't quite catch the last thing you said "but I still like using my film cameras in black and white and processing them in ??Caphenol?? that is just awesome. " What was the processing for black and white please? best regards Graham.
Hi Graham, Thanks for your comment, glad you enjoyed it. I mainly use Xtol for my b& w film developing now but was doing a lot in Caffenol stand development. This is a great method as it allows the film to develop slowly over about 1 hour. Caffenol is a mixture of coffee + vitamin c + pottasium bromide (or iodised salt) + water. Search Caffenol on google and there are plenty of recipes and advise on different films. It’s good fun and very rewarding. All the best. Robin.
Wonderful and super creative...i have one notice though, what if you rotate the sensor ship inside instead of rotating the camera, then you get better control on the buttons?. Greetings from Germany
Thanks for your comment Amr. Good idea about the sensor and I wished it was possible. But the sensor is located closer to the base of the Nex and when I tried to mount it right way up the body of the Nex covers the Nikon eye piece so I wouldn't be able to see what I was photographing. Using live view would be inconvenient as I would have to focus by holding the Nikon shutter open first. It was a fun project but not a practical solution to converting a film camera to digital. Someone with better tech skills would do a better job than me. All the best.
This is awesome, and the quality of the image is so nice. Do you have any of your photos uploaded anywhere, if not you should make a flickr or something!
Cheers Jacob. Yes I do have an album for this camera on Flickr flic.kr/s/aHskGXKESj I should put more on it. Another album for my B&W film developed in Coffee & Washing Soda & Fit C = Caffenol. www.flickr.com/gp/142208709@N08/1J17FN
I understand the nostalgy of reviving a Nikon FE and all that is rather ingenuous but I wonder what's the deal... in the end you would have been set off much better with the Sony NEX 5 and an adapter ring to fit your Nikkor glass
Hi Singer, Don't sand the entire glass. You need to remove the filter glass and the black tape under it and just leave the bottom glass that covers the sensor. Then you need to sand or grind both edges of the glass so the sensor fits in between the film rails. Then the plastic edging of the sensor also needs to be sanded down until it is level with the actual sensors themselves. This is about 1mm of plastic. Now be careful with the glass edges because one side is slightly overhanging the sensors more than the other and if you grind it in too far you will create a hole allowing dust onto the sensor itself and then it is "all over red rover". Hope that helps. Good luck mate! Robin.
@@RobinGuymer-Gizz Hey Robin! I've got my NEX5 sensor fitted right between the Maxxum 7000 film rails. Fits perfectly without sanding anything! The only problem i have now is mating the sony upside down on the back of it. The cables leading to the sensor are too short! Dang! Do you know if anyone sells longer cables to the sensor? It will work, but won't reach. I even sanded down the Sony's lens mount.. but still too short. Thanks again Robin!!
Hi Rosalía, The digital camera is a Sony Nex 3 with a 14.2mp APS-C sensor. I think a better one to use will be the Sony Nex 3N. It is quite flat across the face and there is no electronics behind the small handle so it should be able to be cut to fit perfectly flat across the back of an SLR. I just bought one and this is my next project. Robin.
You should change the camera mount on the Nikon to m42 and use m42 lenses. (Why? -the flange distance is larger...hence you don’t have to do any filing) what do you think? Think outside the square? Let’s just keep the sensor out of the square.
Hey Robin, I guess I'm a bit late to the party but I was wondering why it's necessary to have the shutter there at all? if it's sitting behind the sensor it's not really doing anything is it? anywyas thanks a bunch for making this video! Atwood
Good question Atwood but the Sony Next internal software looks for the shutter and if it is not there the Nex won't work. If you can hack the software you could fix this issue. Robin.
Now this is really hardcore stuff - but because of the potential of damaging everything, and the very strange looks, i'd never do this. And there is also the x1.5 Cropfactor then, because you do have a analogue SLR, which is Fullframe, and the Sensor is only APS-C (x1.52 Cropfactor, exactly) Instead, i do use my manual focus lenses together with a Lens Turbo Mk. II onto my old, but beloved NEX-5, do have 1 stop more light, and almost the same Focal Length. (x0.726 is exactly the Lens Turbo Cropfactor - so a 24mm Fullframe MF Lens is then 24x 1.5 x0.726 means 26.1xx mm Focal Length compared to Fullframe usually. I do hope that Nikon would release someday a digital S2 Rangefinder with F-Mount & FF-Sensor of course.
Sometimes the line between genius and insanity can be really very thin! ^^ great video!
Hey thanks Roman. Great comment, gave me a good laugh this morning. Cheers mate have a good one.
I used to know a man like you, he modified digital camara's and hang the from kites ( long before drones) and got amazing photo's. You and him are genius and without you the world is dull. Thank you for the vidio
That was the coolest, most fun video I've ever seen! No gimmicks, no influencer bs.
You da man!
5:55 I Died
After several trial and error he found out the hammer was totally unnecessary.
I love the look of the video in infrared!
I've just learn/understood/skimmed this term of 'front and back standards' of a large format camera and this video just puts it all together. Does makes sense now.
This is such a crazy video! Love the creativity!
A true fiddle artist. I was surprised it actually worked. It does show his skills. 👍 Only question i have is: why? It seems so cumbersome.
wow...i had no idea this could be done. I was searching for the old " pseudo digital film" hoax and ended up here. Hats of to you. I have to admire your patience.
Thanks Sonnet, it was a great fun project. Currently working on another where I have fitted a Nex 3N to a custom made back on a Nikon F3. It's working very well but a bit more fine tuning to do on the sensor focus. I might post a video on this one when it is working properly.
First time here, newbie xpan owner. Best intro eveerrrrr.....
I like this. I've done some camera hacking, and some digicam repairs over the years. I have a Canon point-and-shoot that has focus problems, but isn't throwing a lens error! I may just decide to use it for it's image sensor and electronics instead.
Key takeaway: after seeing the 80 grit sandpaper in close proximity to the holy cow I ain't scared of cleaning my sensors anymore. Anyways, great job, man! Hope I'll do the same with my KNEB Hasselbladski when retired in 20 yrs - sensors gotta grow by then.
Cheers Gustave. The 80 grit was a bit slow by hand so I ended up using the edge of a belt sander. But kinda glad I never put that on TH-cam as it might have been just too much for some viewers. All the best mate.
Exactly what I was thinking!
So talented. Thanks for spreading the knowledge
A mad scientist. love the video, well done.
I had the Sony A7s modified by ATG to fit onto my Contax AX (made by ATG at that time).
Robin & ATG can do this but many people may not be able to do.
The major benefits on having the Contax AX (by ATG):
* All lenses fit onto this body becomes ATG's AF (the world's first)
* Much better low light camera than the Sony A7s II
* Mounted the ATG's Contax 210/0.03. Not many have ever seen a F0.03 lenses?
* ATG Contax Carl Zeiss T* 200mm@F0.03 Kim X3 (AF night vision for video & still)
* ATG ADI TTL wireless radio flash can be used with normal & IR photography and videos.
awsome ,Just what i was looking for !!!
I find this attempt to rescue an analogous camera very interesting.
It would be great if the gadget could adapt to the interior of the camera without altering the original line.
It may seem very hipster, but it would be very cool for the sensor just act as a film and to take better advantage of the camera's own options and mechanisms. As well as in the past, having to wait for the reveal to see the result.
Thank you for sharing this and I greatly appreciate the humility with which you share this good idea.
greetings from Chile
good spear !!!!
How I Know Which Sencer Fit That Boady.
También de Chile aquí! Me encanta este concepto
thanks, i am off to building one, now i have seen this i possible, and relatively simple . ohw your sense off humor is great, made me laugh many times throughout the video. thank you sir, allot
fantastic. you solved a problem i have been thinking about and too afraid to tear into and deconstruct a digital camera. Thank you.
Awesome project. Looks like a lot of fun.
I'd got to 12:04 and I was thinking 'I would of got a roll of gaffer tape by now' and lo and behold, you produce the gaff lol, brilliant video mate really. If I had the time i'd do it. Great stuff and greetings from London UK
Amazing idea,. Vintage look with latest engine
this guy is so much fun, brilliant thinking out the box, magic stuff.... love it......
On the plus note you will always be more professional in the eyes of the public when shooting with not one but two cameras simultaneously! 😁 Great Video!
Impressive! I can never do that otherwise I lose two cameras lol
Your selling yourself short Min. I am a builder / carpenter with no electronic skills. With a few basic tools this is an easy project. All the best. Robin.
This is Awesome! Not many solutions out there that seem to work as well as this, so it's cool to see that you'd be able to do it yourself. I'll have to save this video in case I get the chance to try this out later, thank you for sharing :)
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could manage building al the elektronics and buttons into the motordrive and stick only sensor and screen on the back?
Thank you! Great video
Cute chimera You have made...
simply an amazing robin beautiful job. now I gotta go find me a camera to rip apart Yesss!!
Hi robin, is it posible to mount it with a shutter that is broken, just leave it open and just mount the motor.
dos the system see the shutter by conecting to the motor i think then you can leave it open and the camera slr has a shutter.
This is a cool setup!
The inventor of camera "Joseph Nicephore Niepce" will proud of you from haven
really great!
Thanks Grady, hope it gave you some inspiration. RG.
I always wanted to do this. Thank you for showing!
I respect your ability. from 2021,08
Nice one! I'd like to saw off the fixed lens of a Nikon Coolpix A and replace it with an f-mount . I could have the first Nikon APS-C interchangeable mirrorless camera!
Great job on the conversion! Now I look at my Canon A1 & Sony Nex 5 with different eyes. I probably won't take them apart, tho - a EF-Sony E adapter already brought the nifty 50 to my Sony and it performs great there, despite the 1.6x crop :)
Thanks Adrian. I have been eyeing off my Canon A1 also. Looking at the guts of a Canon EOS M on the web, I reckon it might be able to have the shutter flipped out of the way so the sensor could drop into the film rails. It could make a pretty neat unit Canon / Canon. I have adapters for my Sony F3 also but I can tell you that my Nikon FE "electric film" camera seems to take better photos and sure looks, feels and sounds better lol. Regards Robin.
Oh yeah, for sure focusing will be a lot nicer too, thanks to the prism. (much better than the digital focus highlighting in the NEX)
Reminds me a bit of the Forscher Pro Back of the 80s, sans the Polaroid film. You should set up a side business offering these conversions.
Good job
Does he catch crocs in his spare time ? “That’s not a knife,,this is a knife “ 🐊
Beautiful job man!!!
Saludos desde México, you are so brave, to handle those "magical parts" forbidden for most of humanity is forbidden to touch
Brilliant. Just wonderful.
Hiya Robin, please make some more videos you look like someone who has a lot of cool stuff you could share.
impressive! I wish i had your creativity and skill! haha
I'll give you all my respect if you can turn one of these digital camera into a film camera!
@oddjobbob the eagles is digital? lol digital dies with you man... film is forever.. also more resolution with film...
bloody amazing!
I really like these type of videos where normal people make inventive solutions. I just bought an old eos 35mm camera and af lens at a boot sale for a tenner and was wondering how to maybe add a cheap digital camera on the back so i have a eos camera for less than £20. maybe not an ideal solution will try and be inventive like you.
I knew this would work! This does two things involving film slr cameras, you now can make endless digital images, and use interchangeable lenses. Many of the older camera lenses had really well ground glass in there optics. If you wanted to do this buying a digital back for 35mm cameras it would cost a fortune! This is the way to go, and you learn more about photography in doing so! Now there are even small portable digital cameras with even higher resolution like 16 megapixels, also many of the pocket digital cameras have built in digital effects, as well as in camera editing of images! Robin Guymer you are definitely thinking out of the box! I have some Minolta X-700 camera bodies I am going to try out this method on!
Aussie ingenuity baby!!
not really sure what i should thing of this...
but thanks for sharing this
Is this possible for a wooden camera with bellows? In place of a digital sensor, rig a gopro on top of the lens and replace the glass screen with an appropriate tablet device .
@oddjobbob
Thanks! Perhaps you can share the idea with your friends.
One question:
Why didn't you just buy a lens adapter for the NEX?
Would have saved you a lot of time and destroying cameras..
I can't agree more.
Hi mate, are you Aussie? Great fun staff. Good on you.
Thanks.
Bravo señor Robin. Me encantaría poner un respaldo digital a mi Mamiya Rb 67. Suerte!!!
any good cheap digital camera with 35mm sensor? Can i use bigger size sensor?
I wish you could show me how to do it like step by step on that white little Sony. I'm so addicted! Ps. I got FM2.
I appreciate your ideas and really truely love it!
Thanks Kanin. If you go to this site xovercameras.blogspot.com/ I have done a step by step how to series that may help you. The best Sony to use would be either a Nex C3 or a 3N. Both these have a complete flat face that you can cut right back so the Nex sits flat on the camera back. Rather than use the existing back of your camera as FM2's are worth a lot now, you should just make a camera back out of sheet metal. It is quite easy to do. Otherwise buy another Nikon FE or FA that is dead and use the back off that. Have fun with it.
Brilliant!
loved it! A nice summer project I assume. Will give it a shot too :)
Good on you Akshdeep. See if you can get a Sony Nex3N body as it only has a small handle on the face with no electronics under it. Therefore it will sit perfectly flat across the back of the SLR. If your any good with soldering there is a couple of TH-cam videos showing how to wire in a remote trigger. This means you can fit a button near the SLR shutter trigger. If your using an SLR that won't enable the IR filter to be fitted behind the mirror, then don't worry about it as the camera is more fun without, then being able to shoot entirely in Infra Red. But you will find you need to set the sensor in deeper to get good focus. Just check that the SLR you use has enough distance between the film rails and the shutter curtain so that your rebated sensor will not strike it. After you remove the IR filter off the sensor then also remove the small black separator strips as these can hit the shutter of the SLR, they are only sticky plastic strips. Good luck and get in contact if you need any help. Robin.
Robin Guymer Thanks for the suggestion.. I might 3D print the enclosure, but I am just planning it yet
Wtf is wrong with people. This is fucking amazing!
sorry mate, why would you need the sony shutter component for? you can use B keep the film camera shutter open and shot with sony release?
thanks for doing this video it's quite interesting!
My pleasure. Cheers.
Sir, I am so much inspired by your idea. I noticed you're using a motor drive. You might consider using the space in there to put (some of) the guts of the Sony in there? Then find a way to ditch the Sony housing. This would make the design a lot more subtle and pleasing to the eye. Just imagine how cool this camera will look with just an lcd screen on the back to show signs of your digital retrofit. Another idea might be to find one of those clunky Nikon data backs and modify that to fit the electronics into.
Thanks for your nice comments Gabor. Your exactly right about the motor drive potential for housing the digital guts and battery etc. Problem is way out of my ability to do so though as I have zero electronics skills as I am better on a nail gun than a soldering iron. The tricky part is to be able to swap the positions of the sensor and the shutter of the Sony. The shutter is redundant as you are using the shutter of the Nikon but the Sony won't work unless the shutter is connected (potential here to hack the Sony motherboard to negate the shutter). The ribbon cables are just long enough to allow them to reach the sensor over the shutter but mind you I blew up the last set when I stretched them too tight when I built a 16mb digital back onto a F3. You could build a really cool camera if you have the skills. Interesting when I had the F3 working for a while with a 16mb Sony back and the filters removed from the sensor is that I had a whopping 2 stops more light on the sensor compared to the previous setup that was 1 stop more. Hope you have a crack at it. Cheers.
@@RobinGuymer-Gizz Thank you for responding :) Yes, I see what you mean. Perhaps these flex cables exist in a longer version too. But I understand, getting this far was complicated enough. Either way, jolly good thing you engineered there. Quite unique and excellent thinking!
Tarzan tape, now that is a new one.
Amazing mate.
Good on you Claudio. Thanks a lot.
I would love to see you do this with a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord.
Dear Robin, thanks for the video, it made me laugh a lot at the sheer audacity of it. Fantastic! I didn't quite catch the last thing you said "but I still like using my film cameras in black and white and processing them in ??Caphenol?? that is just awesome. " What was the processing for black and white please? best regards Graham.
Hi Graham, Thanks for your comment, glad you enjoyed it. I mainly use Xtol for my b& w film developing now but was doing a lot in Caffenol stand development. This is a great method as it allows the film to develop slowly over about 1 hour. Caffenol is a mixture of coffee + vitamin c + pottasium bromide (or iodised salt) + water. Search Caffenol on google and there are plenty of recipes and advise on different films. It’s good fun and very rewarding. All the best. Robin.
Wonderful and super creative...i have one notice though, what if you rotate the sensor ship inside instead of rotating the camera, then you get better control on the buttons?.
Greetings from Germany
Thanks for your comment Amr. Good idea about the sensor and I wished it was possible. But the sensor is located closer to the base of the Nex and when I tried to mount it right way up the body of the Nex covers the Nikon eye piece so I wouldn't be able to see what I was photographing. Using live view would be inconvenient as I would have to focus by holding the Nikon shutter open first. It was a fun project but not a practical solution to converting a film camera to digital. Someone with better tech skills would do a better job than me. All the best.
Nice project. God bless
This is awesome, and the quality of the image is so nice. Do you have any of your photos uploaded anywhere, if not you should make a flickr or something!
Cheers Jacob. Yes I do have an album for this camera on Flickr flic.kr/s/aHskGXKESj I should put more on it. Another album for my B&W film developed in Coffee & Washing Soda & Fit C = Caffenol. www.flickr.com/gp/142208709@N08/1J17FN
Brilliant .....
I understand the nostalgy of reviving a Nikon FE and all that is rather ingenuous but I wonder what's the deal... in the end you would have been set off much better with the Sony NEX 5 and an adapter ring to fit your Nikkor glass
“I shake like you wouldn’t believe”
Me to brother
amazing, love your hack :D
great work
Is he just sanding the EDGE of the sensor? Or the entire glass covering the sensor with sandpaper?
Hi Singer, Don't sand the entire glass. You need to remove the filter glass and the black tape under it and just leave the bottom glass that covers the sensor. Then you need to sand or grind both edges of the glass so the sensor fits in between the film rails. Then the plastic edging of the sensor also needs to be sanded down until it is level with the actual sensors themselves. This is about 1mm of plastic. Now be careful with the glass edges because one side is slightly overhanging the sensors more than the other and if you grind it in too far you will create a hole allowing dust onto the sensor itself and then it is "all over red rover". Hope that helps. Good luck mate! Robin.
@@RobinGuymer-Gizz Appreciate the response Robyn! Thanks and take care.
@@RobinGuymer-Gizz Hey Robin! I've got my NEX5 sensor fitted right between the Maxxum 7000 film rails. Fits perfectly without sanding anything! The only problem i have now is mating the sony upside down on the back of it. The cables leading to the sensor are too short! Dang! Do you know if anyone sells longer cables to the sensor? It will work, but won't reach. I even sanded down the Sony's lens mount.. but still too short. Thanks again Robin!!
Thanks for the video
No problemo. It's been a blast. Robin.
What will be the cost of convertion to digital form?
amazing!!! good job!!!
Domo arigato Mikoto.
Pretty good m making one
Thank you. I plan to do another for my Canon A1's using a Nex 3N just purchased.
Robin Guymer nice
Hi Robin, what sensor are you using for this project? I didn't get the name form the audio, thanks!
Hi Rosalía, The digital camera is a Sony Nex 3 with a 14.2mp APS-C sensor. I think a better one to use will be the Sony Nex 3N. It is quite flat across the face and there is no electronics behind the small handle so it should be able to be cut to fit perfectly flat across the back of an SLR. I just bought one and this is my next project. Robin.
hi robin can i make my cannon av1 into a digital camera with this same electric film
? also where can i purchase it?
e-p-i-c ^^
Astounding! If you could neaten this up, you could probably sell them.
You could have just attached the lens on the nex camera with an adapter. Why create this Frankenstein's Monster ??
it's more fun to make a Frankenstein's monster!
That’s exactly why, just to create that monster and have people asking why.
Realy cool!
$12 adapter to NEX ...bam. done.
👍 😎
Actually ive got an amazing takumar lens .and old zenit ussr camera
now wheres that duct tape ?
genial!!!!!!
Time to find a cheap RX1 donor body. The small body of the camera plus full frame sensor should make for a nice camera back without a crop factor.
You should change the camera mount on the Nikon to m42 and use m42 lenses. (Why? -the flange distance is larger...hence you don’t have to do any filing) what do you think? Think outside the square? Let’s just keep the sensor out of the square.
What kind of crazy hack is this?
Awesome work. Where can I find someone to do for my nikon film camera?
Hey Robin, I guess I'm a bit late to the party but I was wondering why it's necessary to have the shutter there at all? if it's sitting behind the sensor it's not really doing anything is it? anywyas thanks a bunch for making this video!
Atwood
Good question Atwood but the Sony Next internal software looks for the shutter and if it is not there the Nex won't work. If you can hack the software you could fix this issue. Robin.
Now this is really hardcore stuff - but because of the potential of damaging everything, and the very strange looks, i'd never do this. And there is also the x1.5 Cropfactor then, because you do have a analogue SLR, which is Fullframe, and the Sensor is only APS-C (x1.52 Cropfactor, exactly) Instead, i do use my manual focus lenses together with a Lens Turbo Mk. II onto my old, but beloved NEX-5, do have 1 stop more light, and almost the same Focal Length. (x0.726 is exactly the Lens Turbo Cropfactor - so a 24mm Fullframe MF Lens is then 24x 1.5 x0.726 means 26.1xx mm Focal Length compared to Fullframe usually.
I do hope that Nikon would release someday a digital S2 Rangefinder with F-Mount & FF-Sensor of course.
Patent it. Find a backer, get a design team, and sell it. I would definetly buy that. (On the verge of building something like this myself)
Crazyyyy!!! 😂😂😂
Wow!!