The shift from old analog slide-in cameras to digital photography is a clear example of groundbreaking innovation. Today, most people prefer to have photos stored on the Internet or on their hard drive. What they do from their mobile phone. Well someone digitized an old analog camera with Raspberry Pi.
Surely many of you who are already of age have that old film camera in a drawer, which you must have developed once you had already taken the relevant 24 photos. Among them there were some badly made or where the camera had been turned because we had it in our pocket. Our younger readers won’t know this, but back then we couldn’t afford to take 1,000 different photos and throw away all but one. They just couldn’t be erased.
However, there is one thing that these cameras had and that is none other than being able to capture photos with superior image quality than early digital cameras. The standard of the digitization process is that it takes twice as much information as its analog counterpart. Information that is nothing more than data to process and that required better ISPs in our handheld devices. Well, let’s see how the combination of an analog camera and a Raspberry Pi turns out.
They turn an analog camera into digital with a Raspberry Pi
Specific, they did it with a Pi Zero W, and it is that the low-power and simplified version of the famous Single Board Computer has found a place for the creation of improvised devices that work with batteries. All this thanks to your Power consumption 2W. Which in this case was used to convert an old analog camera, 70 years out of date, to digital.
The project was made by an anonymous person who took the pseudonym of Airpocket. For this I order an old camera Bell & Howell Model 172 magazine-loading 8mm camera– Who after reviewing and dismantling it, he was able to see how it was possible to place a Raspberry Pi Zero W
At the moment the project is not finished, since among other things it is necessary to have the software ready to use and the addition of elements such as an LCD screen to be able to see the photos that are taken. As for the software, its creator uses OpenCV as the main API to program the various functions of the camera. For the moment it is a project in development, but it caught our attention because it is an original way to give a second life to our classic cameras.
