> On 18 May 2020 at 04:29 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The cool idea that just won’t die > > And, they even make it on topic with this spotty: > > https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/028/731/584/6d3b8d27fb9dfdb2fe8ac4d84f660fc1_original.gif?ixlib=rb-2.1.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1586911320&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=ac59ac9840cb207f50ac2686aa38fb03 > > > About $360 with one dedicated back cover > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-35-new-version-with-manual-priority-function/description > > I think that just about ever photographer that started out with film has > wished that they could use their old favorite cameras to shoot digital. The > problem being that I can’t see the camera feeling right with everything added > to it, so you’d probably end up with the worst of both worlds. The only > advantage I can see is that it is nominally cheaper than buying a digital > body that you can mount the lenses to. > > The sensor is a panasonic 34112 image sensor > > It turns out that rather than focusing onto the sensor, they have a focusing > screen, which the imaging sensor takes a photo of. Something that I just > can’t see improving image quality. > > https://backerclub.co/html.php?id=11823 > "There is no crop factor? The sensor seems quite small, especially compared > to e.g. common APS-C sensors these days..." > > There will have no crop factor from the size of sensor. The design of this > product is called "Depth-of-field_adapter" > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-of-field_adapter). In normal digital > camera, the image from the lens is directly projected onto the sensor. So the > smaller the size of the sensor, the more the image is cropped which we called > crop factor. In this Depth-of-field adapter "digital back", the image is > projected onto the focusing screen, is almost 24mm x 36mm. And then we use a > digital camera to take a photo of this focusing screen. You can use a SLR, > mirrorless or any size of sensor to take this photo from the screen. There is > no crop factor." Thanks. A. D. ;-) > > > What is interesting is the number of people that have already signed up to > spend $400 on something that should work so much worse with their lenses than > a used mirrorless body and a lens adapter.
Even more interesting is that there is apparently a MF version that covers 6x7, 6x6 & 6x4.5. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
