Zhang created an open-source full-frame E-mount mirrorless camera that you can recreate yourself using the resources found here on github. The project started as a digital back for film cameras and grew from there. The camera is built around an AMD-Xilinx Zynq 7010 system-on-chip combined with a pair of Arm Cortex-A9 CPU cores running at 667MHz with an FPGA featuring 28k logic cells. The camera has 512MB of DDR3 RAM and an Analog Devices AD9990 signal processor with an analog front-end connected to a Kodak/ON Semi KAI-11002CM color or KAI-11002M monochrome image sensor, with a 3.4″ 480×480 ISP panel on the rear for the user interface which can be controlled on the grip.
The camera is only 10.7 megapixels which can crop down to 5.6 megapixels for square APS-C images. The images are stored as losslessly compressed raw DNG files and lossy-compressed JPEG images. The rear display refreshes at 28fps for live-view mode. Anyone can build their own cameras and the software is pretty easy to understand, but the hardware could use work.
via hackster
