G'day everyone.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been collecting the things I need for this project and so far have got:
2x Canon 350d’s
55W TEC
90W low profile CPU Cooler 100x110x40mm
12 8A power supply
Timer remote
Thermal past
100x70x35mm passive heat sink
170x12x55mm Aluminium case
and probably some other stuff I forgot.
The only thing I haven't been able to find yet is some copper plate.
Now I got the first 350d and managed to get it apart, got the sensor out and took off the low pass filter(?) and AA filter(?), and then popped the cover glass off and had a bare sensor.
I first rubed the micro lenses off with a mach stick.
But to get the CFA off I tried scraping with a sharpened bit of wood but couldn’t move anything so tried a bit of hard plastic and still no go, so I got a bit of aluminium and filed a nice edge on it and carefully scraped it off with that.
Once the camera was assembled again I turned it on and it was dead, I fiddled with it a fare bit but it stayed dead so I thought blow it, and I got another one on ebay.
It arrived a few days ago and after getting enough courage I pulled it apart, took out the sensor and put in the debayered sensor.
On assembly it fired up strait away and performed as normal, needless to say I was pretty chuffed at this and couldn’t wait to try it out on the stars.
I found that I couldn’t focus at infinity with a camera lens so I hooked it up to my old refractor and got a few sub and was amazed at how much more sensitive it was, I estimate around 3 to 4 times more sensitive that the GX1 that I normally use.
Im not really good at describing things so I'll just post heaps of pictures instead.
Cheers
Jo
Pic 1. pulling apart camera.
Pic 2. sensor out and cover glass off.
Pic 3. removing micro lenses with mach stick.
Pic 4. removing CFA with tool.
Pic 5. CFA removed.
First light, 110mm f5 acro, no filters, 10x 30sec ISO 1600 subs.
Pic 6. M 8.
Pic 7. M 16.
Pic 8. M 17.
Please note: these last pictures are terrible quality,
I just took them to show the sensitivity of the camera.
If you want any more info about something please ask.
Cheers
Jo