This one is just beginning. The same instinct as the Bolex: take an old, honest technology and see how far it can go with today's tools.
The Panasonic DVX100 is a 3CCD camcorder with a look people still miss. I want to revive the legendary "Andromeda mod", the community hack that pulled a raw, progressive signal out of the camera, and take it one step further.
Instead of recording back to tape, the plan is to bypass digitization entirely and route the signal straight from the FPGA to a hard disk. Early days, but the direction is set. More soon :)