Re: Mixing digital photography with analog photography

[Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most of what makes a digital back work doesn't exist in the film camera.   So you would have to make some sort of interface that could talk to the camera which doesn't exist on the cameras.  So the only way it could work is in full manual mode.  Which doesn't sound like much of a problem until you find out that the cost of the back would still be close to an entire camera.    As for curved sensors its possible.  Kodak made one for Leica that while not curved used a micro-lens on the sensor that was concave in design so as to work film lenses.   Digital lenses all have an aspherical element in them that makes the light strike the sensor more or less straight on.  

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Elson T. Elizaga <elson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This site mentions a longing for the F4, sort of: http://tinyurl.com/8o3j7ox

But it's just the first paragraph.

How about an FM2 with a digital back? :)

On 9/24/2012 9:57 PM, Jan Faul wrote:

You’ll be waiting a long time. In fact, perhaps forever. I discussed making a digital back for the Xpan with Hassie a few years ago in person at the factory and it’s not a simple operation and the lenses are made for curved file not flat sensors.

Jan

On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Elson T. Elizaga wrote:

Why can't Nikon make a digital back for film SLRs? I still have my Nikon F4 and I'm waiting.

Art Faul

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