You have an analog one camera that you no longer use? With the Raspberry Pi Zero you can very well turn it into a digital one.
Even if you are a big fan of analog photosgraphics cameras, analog film is now a significant expense and hassle. For those of you who don't want to throw away your old analog camera o YouTuber befinitiv came up with an interesting solution. take one Raspberry Pi Zero, combine it with a unit 5MP camera and put it all in one old 35mm camera body.
It is a smart and effective hack that should not cost a lot of money. Befinitiv made a small round housing in the shape of a 35 mm photographic spool. Fit a Pi Zero, a battery and a 5MP camera sensor to this housing.
All together like a volume, they resemble the spool of a camera that, with the film spread, passes in front of the shutter and reaches the fixed spool.
When you open the camera shutter, the image is captured by the Raspberry Pi 5MP. Using an old camera function (night shot), befinitiv can keep the camera shutter open indefinitely and take a video with the Pi drive. This video can be streamed directly to a computer using the Pi Zero wireless capabilities, a very interesting feature.
Of course, this hack has some drawbacks. The 5MP sensor is smaller than the 35mm image coming through the lens, so videos are cropped or zoomed. In addition, it seems that befinitiv can not yet take pictures with this hack - synchronizing the Pi drive with the analog camera shutter would definitely take a lot of work.
If you are interested in creating a digital camera from an old camera with a Pi Zero, then check out the video description of befinitiv on YouTube. There are links to the components of this build, as well as an easy-to-use CAD file.
