Godfrey
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I very strongly doubt that that is at all possible. I see no way that a wind-up capacitor/battery could possibly supply all the power required by a state of the art 24Mpixel imager sensor and its supporting electronics for even a single exposure without having to wind it a couple of hundred times.Maybe the film-advance lever charges the battery?...
I have what is supposed to be a state of the art wind up flashlight, capable of burning a very efficient and reasonably bright LED bulb for up to two hours on a fully wound up charge. It takes about ten minutes of vigorously working the charging mechanism for it to achieve even a half charge on the battery and power the lamp for more than thirty minutes. It's not bad for an emergency light when all your other batteries are dead and there's no mains power to recharge them... But if I have to work that hard to make a photo, I'm just going to grab one of my all mechanical cameras and stick a roll of film in it.