Otokichi Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 (edited) https://www.shutterbug.com/content/“i’m-back”-16mp-digital-back-promising-new-life-old-35mm-film-cameras Cruising through the Shutterbug website, I ran across this article on "putting a digital sensor into analog film cameras." Is this for real? Can your grandpa's Contax II be used to take 16MP digital pictures? How about that "orphan M42 Ricoh Singlex TLS" that you dug out of the trash? This looks/sounds like an electronic wrinkle on the "stuff a ho-hum digital camera into a decrepit 35mm SLR film camera body" that can be found on YouTube. This "Steampunk Photography" movement is also responsible for taking perfectly mundane 3-element lenses off analog film cameras as adapting them to digital mirrorless wonders and marveling at the "Bokeh" these otherwise optically awful lenses produce. (Triotar, Radionar, and certain Russian Leica Screw Mount lenses produce "swirly Bokeh" and other astigmatic backgrounds when used at maximum aperture.) Sigh, the days of "photographer David Hamilton" have returned, in a Harvey Weinstein kind of way. Edited October 18, 2017 by Otokichi The latest Photography fad is as close as the Thrift shop junk box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 It’s no good unless you have to take it to Motophoto for developing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted October 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) Ken Wheeler: Film is DEAD! The Hipsters say: Film is alive! Edited October 25, 2017 by Otokichi Personally, I'd like to put a roll of Kodachrome into Ye Olde Nikon FM-2, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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