It's New! It's Exciting! It's the "Flash-Imprint Layered Media" Perpetual Ugrade!

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It's New! It's Exciting! It's the "Flash-Imprint Layered Media" Perpetual Ugrade!

Yup. It's True. Kodak Makes good on the Sensor Perpetual-Upgrade Program for the DCS200. Kit came in my Stocking for Christmas. Just completed the conversion, and here's all that there is to it.

Take out your old DCS200, along with the "Flash-Imprint Layered Media" Back.

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Turn the camera over.

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Undo the retaining bolt.

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Remove body from the old, obsolete digital back by squeezing the door release.

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Close-up of the hopelessly outdated KAF-1600.

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The Flash-Imprint Layered Media back and self-contained module is now installed.

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Improvements in technology means the camera is smaller, has higher resolution, improved ISO ratings, and can shoot color or Monochrome.

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So. How's your Perpetual Upgrade Program doing?
 
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Reading the "Flash-Imprint Layered Media" with the computer is much easier than using the SCSI interface required with the old Kodak Digital Back. The upgraded camera is compatible with XP and up.

I keep a Windows 95b Pentium Pro for the old Digital back and had to write my own Raw convertor using FORTRAN and Assembly.
 
What are you doing?! That's 1.5 Megapixels at its finest! Those are what we should be carrying around in our pockets instead of iPhones. It can also be used as a Ballistics Shield and/or Sledgehammer.

In fact, only after all these years finally we have a bit of competition.

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It does .4 MP over it already! Plus it has video, scene modes... even a larger hard drive and takes SD cards. It's just a little smaller.

But SIZE does matter. It doesn't have that "Just try steal my Camera" attitude to it.
 
No Kodak DCS200ir's were harmed in the making of this thread.

I converted a DCS200c that the back was dead. Cheaper than a used N8008s. I used that N8008s from the DCS200c for the "body double".
 
Brian Sweeney said:
Reading the "Flash-Imprint Layered Media" with the computer is much easier than using the SCSI interface required with the old Kodak Digital Back. The upgraded camera is compatible with XP and up.

I keep a Windows 95b Pentium Pro for the old Digital back and had to write my own Raw convertor using FORTRAN and Assembly.
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Brian,

Look in VMWare (I run the mac version) to allow you to dump the old PPro. Might work well for this sort of thing.

B2 (;->
 
Goodness!!

Doesn't this just prove the existence of a digital back for 35mm cameras?

Why hasn't anyone produce it with a bigger sensor?
 
Kodak did produce the DCS460 for the N90 with a 6Mpixel CCD in 1995 or so. It looks like this, has a 1.3x crop factor. It was $30,000. Nina almost bought one for her work, tried it out, got the quotes for it. You can get a DCS460 for $200~$250 on Ebay these days.

The device drivers for the SCSI card and Twain driver are for Photoshop 3.0 running under Win 3.1. I hacked the config files for Win95b to get it to work as it was. Had to lock out some blocks of memory to get it to map. I like the Pentium Pro, and put the overdrive into it. I use a lot of the "Appendix H" instruction set, added the reserved opcodes to my version of the assembler. Windows hates me when I run "those codes", so I switch to protected mode DOS using Pharlap.
 
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