Back around 2002 I saw a digital film insert in Popular Science that was a device that took the place of a 35mm film cannister with a CCD surface that fit into the window of a 35 mm camera. The stated price was around $600. It looked like what I was looking for and just what you're interested in. I have never seen the device on the market nor has any camera store ever heard of it. I too have a Minolta X-370 body with a large cross section of lenses(50mm, 28 to 70mmzoom, 70 to 210 zoom and fixed 500mm). The body has become non-functional with a shutter slide that is hanging up and only gives a half frame image. I actually have two of them with the same malfunction. It would cost me $90. to fix it and I can buy a used one for the same price. Looking into a trade, two busted ones for a working one but have no takers yet. A home brew unit is what I'm interested in and have played around with a disposable digital unit but with the malfuntioning shutter slide, I'd have to remove the curtain and jury rig a shutter release to time the mirror flipping up with the length of time needed to image the CCD. With no camera skills but loads of electronics experience, I'm still playing around with the hardware and can't get past the near one second imaging time. I prefer 35mm to any digital out there as I like to have full control over the focus point, depth of field and aperature settings. I can take photos with a 35mm that you could never get with any digital on the market. Fast action shots are impossible unless you can have fast shutter speeds and very fast films(ASA1000). Good luck

Most likely you are outta luck. There are some reasonable modern 35 mm cameras that had lenses that could then be used on digital camera bodies by the same manufacturer, but I am guess that a camera that old would not be one of them.

You best bet is to just go buy a digital camera (with its own lenses) or if you want to make use of the lenses, see if you can find a used old Pentax 35mm body that will work with the lenses...maybe through eBay or its like.

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if you got 600 dollars to spend you can buy a new Nikon D60 and 18 pieces, including a 8G sd mem card, 1 year warranty, and as for a film camera's better than a digital, it's obvious that you havent been in a camera store and checked them out in a few years

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I am assuming it would mainly be lenses that would be the issue. "Consumer" level DSLRs (such as the Nikon D60) can do an AWFUL lot that older film cameras cannot do. The bank buster would be replacing lenses. While Nikons can use older lenses, there is a limit, especially if all your lenses are older, manual focus lenses. This would be especially true for more "telephoto" lenses, especially if you want "fast" lenses (i.e. lower available aperature settings).

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