Digital starter for young film makers

[wahiba]

Wandering around my local supermarket last night I noticed a digital camera kit, including Tripod and case for 99 GBP. Anyhow, on close inspection it also would take up to 1 minute of movie with sound, and could connect back to the TV. Longer with a larger memory card.

This got me thinking. What better way to get youngsters into tight movie making, like 8mm, without having to spend a fortune on film. Transferring to proper film would then be straight forward, especially as the digital camera could be used as a crude telecine device. Don't laugh, I tried it once, and it works.

[mIke]

>What better way to get youngsters into tight movie
making, like 8mm, without having to spend a fortune on film.

How about a digital cartridge for S8 cameras? Probably difficult to design and to expensive at the end- to be competitive to more conventional systems on the market.

[Guest]

I suspect design is the easy part. The ccd chips must be about the same size as an 8mm frame. No, it is getting is supplied in a super-8 cartridge that would prove difficult. It might be possible as a DIY exercise, but judging by the size of digital cameras available today fitting the equivalent of one inside a super 8 cartridge woul be easy.

[mIke]

Ok, the design of the Kodak cartridge does not need to be reinvented. Because of the cartridge design and in contrast to its 35mm still analogon, the electronic film for Super8 would be fairly robust.
But DIY? Then it depends who conducts this DIY attempt.

If you go into detail, at least for me, there seem to be a couple of main problems, forinstants:

1) lens
interaction of lens and ccd

2) performance of the ccd together with a high speed mechanical shutter
I once read that there are ccds that can deal with a mechanical shutter, but at a high frequency?

3)Speed of frame capturing and more...

Beside the OT lyrics' editors someone among us - who clearly knows what he's talkin about?