Is there any such factor as the proper digital camera? There’s at all times some characteristic or different lacking from the specs record that you simply want your individual digital camera had. So for those who’re not glad, why not construct your individual?
The Sitina-1 is an open-source digital camera undertaking at the moment being developed by electronics fanatic Wenting Zhang. Hand-built from the bottom up, it includes a 3D-printed chassis, custom-made circuit boards and a bunch of available elements (sensor, LCD display, lens mount), made to work along with hundreds of strains of laptop code.
Wenting’s video of his labor of affection exhibits him painstakingly hand-assembling circuit boards, screwing the custom-made physique components collectively and even welding his personal battery packs. It makes for an interesting watch:
Constructing an open-source full-frame CCD digital camera PART II – YouTube
The digital camera is provided with a full-frame sensor, and makes use of the Sony Energetic E-Mount, so it may possibly use lenses supposed for the Sony Alpha cameras. However in any other case, the tech specs within the present incarnation are unlikely to have Nikon, Canon or Sony dropping any sleep: 10Mp pictures, 5fps max capturing price, 100-6400 ISO vary, no EVF and no video. However it’s a work-in-progress, topic to steady enchancment over time.
As an open-source undertaking, Wenting shares all of the technical data on this Sinita-1 undertaking web page; together with the information you may must instruct a 3D printer, circuit diagrams and his laptop code. And the outcomes aren’t half-bad: scroll by his pattern photographs under.
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(Picture credit score: Wenting Zhang)
(Picture credit score: Wenting Zhang)
(Picture credit score: Wenting Zhang)
However why hassle? It is a query that Wenting asks himself: “That is probably the most time-consuming undertaking I’ve ever accomplished and on the identical time it is actually laborious to mass-produce or revenue from. It simply appears like a nasty deal, so why did I do that undertaking? The reason being largely only for enjoyable. I have been into images and electronics DIY for some time so I simply thought it could be enjoyable if I may make my very own digital camera. Do not get me fallacious, I haven’t got any drawback with my current digital camera, and there may be actually no must construct my very own, it is only for enjoyable.”
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