[E. Pluribus Unum]

Time to corner the market on film Nikons on craigslist.

[Army Air Corps]

You can do this very easily with a medium format SLR like a Mamiya 645, but to have this available for a 35mm SLR is very interesting.

[NonValueAdded]

reference bump

[Utilizer]

Stone the crows and call Me a POHM-my lover! Me mum just sold a fortune in old cameras and lenses for a piffling amount not too long ago! Arrrrghhh!

[colinhester]

Or go micro-4/3 format. With a $20 adapter (brand specific) you can use all your old lenses.

[Hardraade]

Heh. I’ll be able to get the Tank going again :).

[Mastador1]

My brother worked for a start up company seems like a decade ago that was working on this and had functional prototypes. The company was driven into bankruptcy by a couple of employees that were ex Kodak, you figure out why. When it was time to liquidate assets these two tried to get the goods for cheap and the judge basically told the to them to take a hike.
I am surprised it has taken this long for it to resurface.

[kingu]

I love the idea, just...the lack of details and specifications really makes me nervous, especially as I'm less than enamored by Indiegogo to begin with (mostly because they take your money the moment you pledge, vs Kickstarter and the Amazon Payments that takes the money at the conclusion of the campaign (if successful.))

What I didn't see on the page was anticipated battery life (standby and how many pictures you can expect to take...), format of pictures, anticipated pixel sizes, etc. I also don't think he's given much thought about how he'd deliver 1,000 packages much less 5,000 packages.

I'm all for supporting inventors, and this project fills a void that really does need to be filled. But I really think he needs to collaborate with someone else...

The biggest bell and whistle I see missing from this project: Bluetooth 4.0 - view pictures on a smart phone as they are taken, change ASA settings, monitor battery power. That right there would double the functionality with very little additional hardware cost.

An inductive charging circuit would also help; strap on an external battery pack to the back of the camera and the film pod picks up the energy and charges the internal battery.

[Vision Thing]

” It’s a digital cartridge that fits inside your old film SLR...”

Resourceful ingenuity.

[43north]

It will be great if this comes to fruition. I’ve got a big collection of vintage Nikons and some legendary Nikkor lenses. DSLRs never appealed to me because they seem so complicated. I understand film, shutter speeds, F-stops, and mechanical cameras. I have trouble wrapping my mind around digicams but if one of my old cameras could “go digital” I’d sure be willing to try it. In the meantime, I’ll stick with film.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Nepeta]

Hmmm...I have two Nikons from the late 1970s/mid 1980s...and lots of lens to go with them...very interesting...

[muir_redwoods]

For later

[oh8eleven]

Convert Your Old Film SLR Into a Digital Camera with the DigiPod
From the article:

"In order for the DigiPod to make it into consumer’s hands, he’ll need to raise almost $307,500 (£199,000),
and so far the first few days of the campaign have seen no backers."

Nevermind.