Digital Upgrade Brings Medium Format Camera Into the 21st Century

Large format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates with his Sitina B220M — an open-source digital back for the Mamiya Super 23 camera using a full-frame Kodak CCD. “Digital back” just means he’s replacing the rear of an existing film camera in order to put a sensor where said film used to live.