The cool idea that just won’t die

And, they even make it on topic with this spotty:

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/028/731/584/6d3b8d27fb9dfdb2fe8ac4d84f660fc1_original.gif?ixlib=rb-2.1.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1586911320&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=ac59ac9840cb207f50ac2686aa38fb03


About $360 with one dedicated back cover

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-35-new-version-with-manual-priority-function/description

I think that just about ever photographer that started out with film has wished 
that they could use their old favorite cameras to shoot digital.  The problem 
being that I can’t see the camera feeling right with everything added to it, so 
you’d probably end up with the worst of both worlds. The only advantage I can 
see is that it is nominally cheaper than buying a digital body that you can 
mount the lenses to.

The sensor is a panasonic 34112 image sensor

It turns out that rather than focusing onto the sensor, they have a focusing 
screen, which the imaging sensor takes a photo of. Something that I just can’t 
see improving image quality.

https://backerclub.co/html.php?id=11823
"There is no crop factor? The sensor seems quite small, especially compared to 
e.g. common APS-C sensors these days..."

There will have no crop factor from the size of sensor. The design of this 
product is called "Depth-of-field_adapter" 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-of-field_adapter). In normal digital 
camera, the image from the lens is directly projected onto the sensor. So the 
smaller the size of the sensor, the more the image is cropped which we called 
crop factor. In this Depth-of-field adapter "digital back", the image is 
projected onto the focusing screen, is almost 24mm x 36mm. And then we use a 
digital camera to take a photo of this focusing screen. You can use a SLR, 
mirrorless or any size of sensor to take this photo from the screen. There is 
no crop factor." Thanks. A. D. ;-)


What is interesting is the number of people that have already signed up to 
spend $400 on something that should work so much worse with their lenses than a 
used mirrorless body and a lens adapter.

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Larry Colen
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