Amazing! This guy turned a Konica S3 into a digital rangefinder.

[Wouter]

So it's becoming possible with 3D printing. See this:

https://frankencamera.wordpress.com/

 

[VTHokiEE]

Wow, that's really neat.

 

[KismetSky]

Wow! I think many of us have had similar ideas of a digital back on film cameras, but to see it actually done (and so cleanly) is amazing!

 

[Keith]

That's very cool! 🙂

 

[lynnb]

I'll just add my wow! Maybe there's potential for a crowd funded project here.

 

[CameraQuest]

So it's becoming possible with 3D printing. See this:

https://frankencamera.wordpress.com/

I wonder if he could do it for a Leica M2 or Nikon SP.

Stephen

 

[Jamie Pillers]

So cool! Many of us have been hoping something like this would come to the point of mass production. This attempt is the best I've seen and shows that 3D printing is capable of making backs to match old film bodies. Maybe this'll tempt someone in China to start pumping out backs for popular old film bodies?

 

[f16sunshine]

That kid rocks!

I like the grainy Kodak Gold look of the second image too 😀

 

[raid]

I am glad to see such WOW work done. My M6 is waiting for it.

 

[f16sunshine]

I hate to mention it, and spoil the fun, but it is not a rangefinder. It is just a disguised point 'n shoot digital.

huh? Could you ess plain ?

 

[KismetSky]

I hate to mention it, and spoil the fun, but it is not a rangefinder. It is just a disguised point 'n shoot digital.

At the end he mentions calibrating the lens to infinity and then calibrating the viewfinder to focus/match. So indeed it is a rangefinder (similar to an rd1) with all the optics set to match and he's using the existing leaf shutter, not the nex one.

 

[apostasiometritis]

I hate to mention it, and spoil the fun, but it is not a rangefinder. It is just a disguised point 'n shoot digital.

You still have to focus a lens. I am sure he retained the rangefinder function.

 

[calebarchie]

I'm hoping to attempt something like this for my major.

 

[kbg32]

Fantastic!

 

[YYV_146]

Amazing work. wonder if this could be done to an iKon or cle

 

[BillBingham2]

Wow, thanks for sharing.

Hope aprings eternal to a digital Bessa L.

B2

 

[x-ray]

Excellent! He needs to start adapting other cameras commercially. Id love to have a B&W only Nikon F with the Df or D610 sensor.

 

[honozooloo]

If only someone figured out a way to create a sensor suite that could be fit into custom film doors (for those SLRS/cameras that have them, sorry Leica M) I could imagine a modular system allowing you to buy a sensor that snapped/installed into different back doors for use with a variety of SLRs/RFs.

3-D printing could also solve the problem of creating the variety of backs the world would need. If Nikon managed this trick, it would have far outsold the Df.

Then again, building something like that with a FF sensor and all the necessary electronics is no small task.

But the eternal optimist in me always thought it would be a matter of time till we saw a kickstarter for such a thing.

 

[Corran]

Nice.
Now use the guts from an A7 and I'll be interested...

 

[Wouter]

I'd be interested in a converted slr or rangefinder without the lcd screen, but with a usb port to attach an external screen.