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Originally Posted by bojan
How do you cope with it's electronics ?
I mean, the shutter may prove to be unusable once you remove something that should not be removed...
Also, you will need batteries...
I was planning similar thing (for wide angle), but with Praktica body. It is even cheaper
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The bulb feature works to keep the mirror up and the shutter open - and once I replace the battery with an externally-wired 6v DC source power shouldn't be a problem.
I don't plan to actually remove anything as such - it's purely a mechanical job to mount the CCD and board on the film plane with very minor modification. There's even four beautifully-placed screws on the backplane that will aid in mounting the board. I'd have to remove the little speaker from the webcam's PCB - but that's a no brainer as it serves no purpose anyway.
The question I have is what reaching focus will be like - as the focal plane is in the same place - the only difference being the size of the sensor in comparison to the size of a 35mm frame. I hope that I can center the CCD to picj up a 640x480 pixel "window" within the 35mm frame.