A Cheap Digital Film Camera

Lucky Hardwood

Lucky Hardwood

Anyone interested/have the skills to collaborate in developing an inexpensive (relatively speaking) digital video camera that would shoot like a film camera without the film? Here's my idea, use a medium format digital film back in the 8-12mp range, like the ones made by Leaf etal and used on Mayima and Hasselblad, as an image sensor and create (essentially) a large, boxy EVIL camera with a sustainable burst rate of 24 images per second. The digital backs tend to get a bit warm and overworking one like that would create a bit of heat, but the general package is small so we could dedicate a large portion of the overall package to cooling. The workflow for the project would be linear, like real film, and you could edit each frame individually.

So who's with me?
 
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Are you thinking on using a film camera with a digital back, or building a film camera around the digital back?

Two different things, with difficulties ranging from hard as fuck, to fucking impossible.

Also, there are NO digital backs. I think they start at 5K. Plus, you know, everything to build the camera.

To do this, you should have the an electronics degree, the knowledge of a filmmaker, and the precision of a watchmaker.
 
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I was thinking of building a camera around the back. I've seen used backs as low as a few hundred dollars. As I see it, the major consideration is getting the sensor to handle the frame rate without melting.
 
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