In this video we disassemble a Canon 350D and we remove the top layer of the sensor, which includes the colour filter array. As a result we’ll end up with a monochrome camera. We also discuss auto focus calibration and a few related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d like this website to be mostly about the physics, engineering and history of photography. In an upcoming series of posts we’ll talk about (what I call) the photography pipeline<\/em>. In that series we’ll cover a large range of topics, starting at light, moving on to lenses, sensors, in-camera processing, etc, going all the way to showing images on screen or on print. For one of the first topics, light, I want to use a spectrometer, which, of course, we’ll build ourselves. The monochrome camera we’re converting in this video will form a central component of that spectrometer (at least that’s the plan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n