Build a simple camera, without involving a microcontroller! possible?

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  Ashraf HZ

  Re: Is this possible?
  
  Are you working on a project? Can you tell us more about it? You'll need three basic components:
  
  1) Lens
  2) Image Sensor
  3) Digital Signal Processor
  
  A DSP is a lot more sophisticated than your standard 8 bit microcontroller. The raw image data output from the image sensor is very large, so it needs to be compressed and encoded into a more manageable format before sending it to the PC or storage card.
  
  What I suggest you do is buy a cheap webcam and dismantle it. However, to interface it directly to a microcontroller/storage card you may need to use other CCD/CMOS cameras that have serial output.
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  limestone7000

  yea i m on a mission to make a camera for myself,
  basically, it should take and store still pictures in my computer! no matter 'colored' of 'black n white',
  
  'Lens', i could get a duplicate camera lens,
  'image sensor', i thought this is inbuilt in a lens!
  'Digi signal processor', i got no idea of what that is,
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  limestone7000

  and hey guys, what's a pinhole camera ??
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  lal

  A pin hole camera is different lol, it has nothing to do with anything digital! In this you make a very small hole and light passes through it to fall on a screen. This is its very basic.
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  limestone7000

  K, call me crazy but here's what i did😛
  
  i went to my native place day-b4-yesterday, got a very old camera "reel cam" from my uncle (which he confessed that he's not gonna need it anymore)
  and yesterday, afternoon i did a post-mortem(i don't know the god damn spelling of it) on it, i dismantled it and took out the PCB [the heart of the dead cam]...
  
  check it out, i uploaded them on flickr=>
  
  1)my cam front side -
  #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  2)my cam back side -
  #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  3)the reflector -
  #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  4)the PCB dismantled -
  #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  5)the PCB with camera lens on it -
  #-Link-Snipped-#
  
  
  😁
  
  so...temme whatcha think?
  and what's the next step i should take??
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  gohm

  A pinhole style is what I thought of when I read the thread however it is a bit old school and will not work for your needs. They are fun to build & give great photography experience.
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  limestone7000

  hey guys,
  interfacing with PC and showing pictures taken on PC seems to me like a very big proj.
  
  so...can i do on negative films?
  as in, can i capture and store it on negative films??
  whats the concept behind capturing image and putting on negatives(photovoltaic papers)??
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  limestone7000

  helloo..anybody there??
  i really need help in this one guys..