The second life of a Soviet camera

It’s no secret that Soviet optics were the best of their kind; even now enthusiasts attach old Soviet professional lenses to modern cameras. We will try to do something even more original and attach a photosensor from a regular USB webcam to the old SMENA 35 film camera

For this experiment we will need:

1. Disassembled working webcam, before disassembly it looked like this

after disassembly

the board itself with a photo sensor

Blue electrical tape was used to attach the sensor. Of course, you could have used something more practical, but it will do in a hurry!

Due to the fact that the size of the sensor (two match heads) and the size of the frame are very different, only part of the lens image will get into the sensor and even from a short distance it will be “large”. That is a great magnification effect!

Photos taken by digitized Smena 35 from a distance of 6 meters:

I am sure that you can give a second life to your broken Zenit or Fed and use such a “rare webcam” for your pleasure. It’s better not to mess with working cameras, film is still relevant

z.y. The lens aperture will be many times greater The same plastic masks that are used in Chinese webcams, therefore even in low light the picture will be much better!!!

Good luck !

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Comments (10)

#1 arsyhas Guests 20 June 2011 16:20
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#2 Alexander Guests 31 July 2013 17:27
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Not a photo sensor, but a matrix!!!!!!!!!
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#3 Sergey Guests 10 May 2015 20:26
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People like Alexander should be killed with a slingshot in childhood: you always need to be arrogant!!!!!!!!!
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#4 Dmitriy Guests 19 August 2015 23:14
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I support
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#5 Marat Guests 21 November 2017 20:14
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How did you remove the curtains? Broke it out?
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1. #6 Guest Vladimir Guests March 16, 2018 01:55
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  Actually, the camera used for the experiment was Smena. There are no curtains, but a shutter like an opening diaphragm.
  
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#7 A.R. Guests 14 March 2018 20:09
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Who asked about curtains! Did you pick up the old optics? There is a manual shutter speed - pressed - opened - released - closed
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#8 Guest Vladimir Guests 24 December 2018 14:32
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on shifts and villas there was a leaf shutter on the fronts and zeniths of the curtains, but I don’t remember on amateurs
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#9 Guest Oleg Guests January 24, 2019 03:24
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Amateurs also have a shutter, just like Smena
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#10 Guest Alexey Guests 5 March 2020 15:13
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This is how I assembled a microscope for work.I only took the camera from PS3. It can handle 60 fps and the picture turns out very smooth and with virtually no delays. The only thing we must not forget is that the IR filter, which is located on the camera lens, must be transferred to the matrix, otherwise the picture will appear pink.
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