That Sir is a camera in a camera mind blowing !!!!???!???!?!?

This would be a nice hack to be able to make use of changeable lense with a digital camera.

If you idiots read the article the lens is a fake and its just a powershot in a shell.

I like how the video shows the caption ‘zoom’ and an arrow points to what is obviously a 50mm prime lens.

Prime lens = fixed focal length = no ‘zoom’.

this “mod” makes me wanna start my minolta 500si digital video conversion(a webcam placed on the film plane and modded electronics,it’s not impossible but i need to break my 500si and i don’t also want to spend any money on it so if i’ll find one webcam for free i’ll may try it).

It is truly sad to see a great SLR camera succumb to this type of hack. There’s an AE-1 Program sitting right here next to me.

Poor Canon AE-1. I don’t like this “hack”.
It should at least be made all the way. Disassemble the new digicam, attach just the display and move the controls to the cameras old controls and add extra ones that look similar if they are not enough.

Where is Efilm when we need it?!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02091903siliconfilmagain.asp

All this guy did was make a heavy and unwieldy case for a stock point and shoot by cutting a hole in a bigger camera. Thats it.

What I think you guys are missing is that the AE-1 was simply gutted. The lens had the glass busted out.

This isn’t anything other than a waste of a very, very good camera. Kind of like the asshole who took a hammer and busted the lenses out of a pre-war Voigtlander to house a stock webcam, it is just trashing things with a hammer and glue gun.

Function please? Skill? Anyone can vandalize for no apparent reason.

Of course there’s no functionality, it’s just a new case with an untouched camera inside. Still a pretty cool start IMO, and a real conversion that could use the old glass would be nothing short of epic.

Being a camera lover I sort of understand the argument against destroying it, but on the other hand as long as it doesn’t hold sentimental value and you got it for cheap (for a few bucks at a yard sale or trift store, for example) I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. AE-1′s were nice in their day but it’s not a super rare or expensive camera. That said I have many older cameras (including a similar AV-1) that I would never even think of doing this to.

1. use hole saw to bore hole in valued vintage item

2. hot glue disposable crap commodity item inside

3. garner worship from idiots

4. profit?

The AE-1 is of historic interest as an early automatic SLR for the masses, but it’s NOT a “very very good” camera (at the time, for SLRs, that more or less meant Nikon) nor even a particularly good one. It’s sort of collectible but I can’t fathom why anyone would buy one now to actually use it, unless it’s digital Canon brandwhores who don’t know anything about film cameras. I used one in school and was more than happy to ditch it for a Nikon FE as soon as I graduated and got a job (the FE’s not ideal, I wish it was an FM3A).

I agree it’s silly to hollow out a working camera just to stick another one inside it, but if you’re going to trash an old SLR better an AE-1 (they’re common as dirt) than a true classic like an FM2 or an OM-1 or K1000. And far better to smash our Canon optics of that era than Nikkor.

I would rather stuff a decent make of digital point and shoot into a film camera as long as the original lenses could be used … with that said a mild firmware change could likely be made to add the ability to either disable auto focus and use only the film camera body’s optics or just both camera’s stock optics and settle for an auto adjust/calibrate menu option. either is a good idea if the “said hacker has skills or balls” to gut both said camera’s to do said deed.
an all time low would be say add a canon or Sony point and shoot to a “Nikon” film body with absolutely full function in both { no demand to have the process reversed …say rescue a point and shoot that has a busted lens and a Nikon film body with a busted film door. Challenge !!!

I have an old Zenit SLR… I wonder if I can stuff the insides of a Kodak DC220 into it and upload the result here…?

Maybe not.

I’ll get me coat.