what? hacking something modern into a classic shell?

WOW, a potential cool video gone bad.. can’t understand a word he said. Come on hackaday.. could of at least put subs in for us English speaking people.

Stuffing a digital camera in a 40′s camera, do I smell a “Swingpunk” hack?

You guys bitch way to much. Awesome hack keep up the great posts.

@Mikey

Seriously? The camera is engraved Luftwaffen. The Germans issued Leica cameras to their troops, hence the picture along with the P08 Luger and what appears to be an airshit Sturmgewehr 44 (?).

I’m too busy oogling the STG-44 and Luger. Even though I’m sure they are just airsoft replicas, they still look damn sexy!

I too saw the Luger, and thought that is so cool, now you really can shoot photos. *sigh*

Nice looking, but a crazy Google translation.

I have Leica Soviet clone, it outperformed modern film cameras during my photography class

im sick of people bashing case mods. do better or gtfo, *please*.

Stop whining. I see cameras like that all the time at my local Goodwill. At least it’s getting used.

/No, I’m not the collector type.
//No, I have no clue how much it’s worth.
///No, I don’t care.

@Quin
That’s what I was thinking. I have an old kodak siting here that could work really well as something like this.

Lemme get some feedback from you really kind folks on this idea; take an older (broken, non-reparable) camera that has the swinging mirror arrangement, and place the LCD screen there, so as to eliminate the LCD screen on the back. My micrometer tells me that the LCD is roughly 41mm on the diagonal, so I think it could work. Opinions?

@Ramon, I was thinking more along the lines of the 1954 camera gun below, but digital and without the magnesium powder capsules (they are very bullet like) being used as a flash.

http://translate.google.ie/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.microsiervos.com%2Fcamaras%2Fcamara-pistola-japonesa-doryu.html&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Something with everything totally hidden inside the shape of the gun. Maybe with a laser sight and the trigger takes the photo. The CCD inside the barel and maybe the OLED inside a scope. That is starting to sound really good, but of course you would probably end up being thrown in jail everytime you tried to snap a killer photo.

At least it wasn’t a real Leica.

And will someone please figure out how to do this but retain the ability to use the Leica glass? That would be most good.

can’t even stop trolling on good hacks…

He could have got the camera off here. Lots of leica clones http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/vintage-cameras.htm

@Eric
If by swinging mirror you mean a 35 mm SLR, you are in for a challenge. The mirror in those is usually not set at the focal plane, but just redirects the still not focused light onto a screen that is set at the correct location. You view that screen through, in good cameras, a pentaprism that corrects for the lens projecting the image upside down.

If you have a bigger format, or something like a TLR, you might be able to fit the lcd in the camera in place of the focus screen. More details, and I will be glad to offer any insight.

@vmspionage
Put the CCD at the focal plane of the camera, where the film sits. Get it right to a very small tolerance, or you will lose near or infinity focus. Problem is, tiny digital cameras have a rather small CCD compared to the size of the film a Leica would shoot. You would need extra glass inbetween the lens and the sensor to adjust the light, and those are probably going to be custom ground. Or, scavenge a larger sensor from a DSLR. Or just get an adapter ring to mount M39 or Leica M lenses to the DSLR. Both would work.

@alex
Not just the goodwill. I got an isolette for a dollar from a tag sale. It’s not an every week find, maybe just a once a year ‘omg look at that’ event. But get friendly with the people at the thrift stores, and the people who go to yard sales every week, and tell them that if they find an old camera you would really like to take a look at it.

@stunmonkey
I might be upset that someone trashed a real Jag. But, I see people making purses out of vinyl records I would love to add to my collection, and there are always stories of people with classic painting just sitting in the attic. But those are beside the point. If someone trashed a Jag-lookalike kit car, I wouldn’t care one bit.

Oh dear, I almost had a heartattack. I thought he had f*cked up a REAL Leica.

Gee guys, ignorance and hostility make a dangerous mix.

As clearly stated at the article, the camera is Zorky, Soviet-made Leica clone. Yes, it has Luftwaffe marking on it. Some people make a living from buying Zorkys, engraving them with Leica stuff and selling off ebay.

And this is the most awaited mod for WWII reenactment crowd. I personally have been waiting for something like this to appear since 2006.

Oooh and someone should do this to a Leica too.