How are cameras made/how do I make a camera?
I do not need a full description on the manufacturing process. I'd like to make a "professional camera" as a senior project (just a strong camera, can be platformed on anything such as the raspberry pi board, what I want to make myself is the object in which captures images). If there's any classes I could take over the summer/online, any links describing the technology that can be used to make a camera body and/or lens, that'd be fantastic. I'd like to get started early. Thanks
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Youtube has several videos on the subject. Explore there.
Here is one about a classic pro camera.
http://youtu.be/iBUDNhNUFF8
You can't make an image sensor from scratch, unless it's a very crude and rudimentary array of photocells.
The camera body is dead simple: it's just a lightproof box. The lens can be ultra simple as well: it just needs to be a pinhole in a thin lightproof membrane forming the front wall of the box.
You cannot make anything but ultra simple glass lenses from scratch either and it takes a lot of skill and practice.
In short, you can make a digital camera but it's going to be a very simple and crude object producing exceptionally low resolution and blocky images: nothing like you'd get from even the most basic, cheapest and oldest digital camera you could buy. But a well-made pinhole camera (non-digital) with home-made light-sensitive chemicals spread on paper, glass, or plastic can produce surprisingly good images.