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   Nicola (cryogenicice9@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 19:51:06 JST Nicola

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   • Colman Reilly

   @mhd @Colman The only real advantage to re-using pre-digital, would be the existing marrket of lenses, but that's not an issue with 110 and 126 because they were always fixed lens cameras. Plus, The only lens format that isn't really covered by new digital cameras, is M42, and mirrorless cameras don't have the focal depth issue that dSLRs have, and can use M42 easily anyway. 2/2

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     Nicola (cryogenicice9@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 19:51:07 JST Nicola

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     • Colman Reilly

     @mhd @Colman @goatsarah@thegoatery.dynds.org

     The 'disposable' digital cameras you can get are probably cheaper and better quality than anything you'd get cobbling together a retro-film camera solution. Cobbling together something to reuse pre-digital cameras is somewhat pointless, you end up spending a fortune engineering around the focal depth issue and getting the sensor as thin and towards the front of whatever solution you do, that it becomes prohibitively expensive. 1/2

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     mhd (mhd@tilde.zone)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 19:51:09 JST mhd

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     • Colman Reilly

     @Colman @goatsarah Actually, I think we're still not on the same page here on what target demographic I pictured here. I was thinking of way less technical and monetary investment here to make this something viable and interesting. On the level of bluetooth-cassette adapters, not developing film yourself…

     But yes, if the sensors here aren't available, this obviously wouldn't work. But who knows, we've got all kinds of electronic products these days, so I thought maybe someone comes up with "Hey, if we just repurpose this aliexpress sensor used to retrofit CCTV cameras, we've got a stew going"…
     Obviously, I've got literally no idea about the availability of sensors in 2023 ;)