Re: Fun With Sony _____
Ok - single focal length only (with its rather clever "Reverse Retro-focus" 35mm lens) but just imagine an XA clam-shell body, with a full-frame sensor placed in the film pressure plate location. The film canister compartment + the film take-up spool compartment could hold the electronics. Of course, I have no specialist knowledge on such a design, but I'd like to think that this might be (technically, at least) feasible.
I'd be prepared to pay some serious money for this camera, if done properly...!! :shocked:
Yes - I have had some similar thoughts... for instance, the Olympus XA was a full-frame 35mm film camera (I still have one), in a camera body of *approximately* the same size as the RX100.The little RX100/3 is still a lovely camera. Sufficient unto the day someone squeezes a full frame sensor into a camera of similar size.
Ok - single focal length only (with its rather clever "Reverse Retro-focus" 35mm lens) but just imagine an XA clam-shell body, with a full-frame sensor placed in the film pressure plate location. The film canister compartment + the film take-up spool compartment could hold the electronics. Of course, I have no specialist knowledge on such a design, but I'd like to think that this might be (technically, at least) feasible.
I'd be prepared to pay some serious money for this camera, if done properly...!! :shocked: