Bill,
Thanks for the info. I'll read it when I get some 'free time' (do I get free
time warden?) . . .
. . . thought of an interesting idea . . . I could get myself a dead Spotmatic
or H3 or similar and 'revive' it by fashioning a permanant grip, clearing out
non-essential mechanisms and then setting up the digital ccd inside of that
frame. "What's this? Oh, didn't you know, Pentax made the first digital camera
all the way back in the 60's. What are you shooting? oh, a Nikon, I'm sorry
for you."
Illinois Bill
"Peifer, William [OCDUS]" wrote:
> And the answer is....
>
> "The CCD Camera Cookbook", by Richard Berry, Veikko Kanto, & John Munger.
> Many astro-nuts (with patience and skill, but not necessarily electrical
> engineering degrees) were using the practical step-by-step details in this
> book to build their own digital cameras for astroimaging before such cameras
> became commercially available at reasonably low cost. The two cameras in
> this book are based on the tiny Texas Instruments 211 and 245 sensors, but
> the associated electronics for a larger chip are essentially identical.
> I've inserted the link below.
>
> http://store.skypub.com/skypub/product.asp?IDSKU=9641T
>
> Bill Peifer
> Rochester, NY
>
> Illinois Bill wrote:
> > Now the REAL question. Does anyone know how to take this
> >and construct a curcit that can actually store pictures to be
> >output to a computer, and know how to do that? Now I wish that
> >I HAD majored in electrical engineering.
>
> >Illinois Bill
>
> >Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
> >> http://www-us6.semiconductors.com/pip/FTF3020-C
> >>
> > >Go ahead, buld your own Pentax Digital!
>
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