Leica’s movie cameras had been massively common within the twentieth century, and stay so with collectors to today. [Michael Suguitan] has beforehand had nice success changing his basic Leica right into a digital one, and now he’s taken the challenge even additional.
[Michael’s] earlier work noticed him create a so-called “digital again” for the Leica M2. He fitted the basic digital camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a small imaging sensor to successfully flip it right into a digital digital camera, creating what he known as the LeicaMPi. Since then, [Michael] has made a spread of upgrades to create what he calls the LeicaM2Pi.
The upgrades begin with the picture sensor. This time round, as an alternative of utilizing a generic Raspberry Pi digital camera, he’s gone with the fancier ArduCam OwlSight sensor. Boasting a mighty 64 megapixels, it’s nonetheless largely suitable with all the identical software program instruments because the first-party cameras, making it each succesful and simple to make use of. With a crop issue of three.7x, the digital camera’s Voigtlander 12mm lens has a way more helpful discipline of view.
Not like [Michael’s] earlier setup, there was additionally no have to take away the digital camera’s IR filter to clear the shutter mechanism. This implies the brand new digital camera is able to taking pure shade pictures in the course of the day. [Michael] additionally added a flash this time round, managed by the GPIOs of the Raspberry Pi Zero. The digital camera additionally contains a a lot tidier onboard battery through the PiSugar module, which may be simply recharged with a USB-C cable.
In the event you’ve ever considered changing an old-school movie digital camera right into a digital shooter, [Michael’s] work may function an amazing leaping off level. We’ve seen it executed with DSLRs, earlier than, too! Video after the break.
[Thanks to Stephen Walters for the tip!]
