Do you have an analog camera that you no longer use? With Raspberry Pi Zero you can easily convert it to digital.
Even if you are a fan of analog cameras, analog film is now a significant cost and hassle. For those of you who do not want to throw away your old analog camera, YouTuber befinitiv has found an interesting solution. take one Raspberry Pi Zero, combine it with a 5MP camera unit and place it all inside an old 35 mm 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 as a volume resembles the reel of a camera machines that with the film spread out it passes in front of the shutter and reaches the fixed reel.
When you open the camera shutter, the image is captured by the Raspberry Pi 5MP module. Using one function of the old camera (night shot), befinitiv can keep the camera shutter open indefinitely and take a video with the Pi. This video can be streamed directly to one computer using the wireless capabilities of Pi Zero, 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're interested in making a digital camera out of an old camera with a Pi Zero, then check out befinitiv's YouTube video walkthrough. There are links to the components of this build as well as a handy archive CHAD.