Digital film cartridge adds 20 MP micro 4/3 sensor to any 35 mm film camera
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allows any 35 mm film camera to capture digital images, by placing a 20 MP Sony MFT sensor where the film would normally go
Game-changing digital film cartridge adds 20 MP micro 4/3 sensor to any 35 mm film camera - NotebookCheck.net News[^] Caveat: the price will be around $700. :-\
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allows any 35 mm film camera to capture digital images, by placing a 20 MP Sony MFT sensor where the film would normally go
Game-changing digital film cartridge adds 20 MP micro 4/3 sensor to any 35 mm film camera - NotebookCheck.net News[^] Caveat: the price will be around $700. :-\
Well ... Fun idea, but where is the real gain? The real cost of your silver camera was in the lenses, not in the body. For all major brands, there are adapters for silver age lenses to fit on a digital body. Besides, when I did that, to use my 20-40+ year old lenses, I learned two lessons: Modern lens designs (and camera bodies!) weigh half as much as the old ones, or even less. Second: Modern lenses have way better antireflex coating than silver age lenses. The only lens I regularly use with an adapter is not from the silver age, but a four thirds lens with a micro four thirds adapter - a macro lens with two f-stops more than the zoom lenses, of high quality and with modern lens coating.
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Well ... Fun idea, but where is the real gain? The real cost of your silver camera was in the lenses, not in the body. For all major brands, there are adapters for silver age lenses to fit on a digital body. Besides, when I did that, to use my 20-40+ year old lenses, I learned two lessons: Modern lens designs (and camera bodies!) weigh half as much as the old ones, or even less. Second: Modern lenses have way better antireflex coating than silver age lenses. The only lens I regularly use with an adapter is not from the silver age, but a four thirds lens with a micro four thirds adapter - a macro lens with two f-stops more than the zoom lenses, of high quality and with modern lens coating.
Another problem is that a MFT sensor is smaller than full-frame format (usual in traditional 35 mm camera's), so the image will be cropped and the lenses will not be used to their full potential.