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The camera is great, but I have ideas from time to time, or, if lacking imagination, I can steal someone else´s ideas with little or no guilt.
Technically a power supply is not a modification - it is an essential part of the system. I decided to include a temp controller in the package. The supplies are analog, in that there are no high frequency switchers involved. I really want to wind a transformer and do a 5kHz or so switcher. High enough to keep the efficiency up, and low enough to keep the noise down.
The second mod was a heater for the front window. I´m 6 miles from the Pacific ocean, and as such, have a serious problem with dew. The window fogged over quickly - sometimes before I could get focused. Chatting with Marty Niemi about the problem one night, he suggested a rear window defogger repair kit from the local auto parts store. I´m on the third revision.
There was a bit of a diagonal wiggle in the images that could be traced back to the fan. I had a Cookbook camera mech parts kit from University Optics , and Marty had milled out a couple of flat parts to accept the heat exchanger from the CB. The result is a water cooled Genesis. Since then, Rick has designed a real back.
I have a continuing (never ending) project with the characterization of the camera. I am trying to find the video gain which will result in the lowest noise and highest dynamic range. Progress is in spurts. This page is currently out of date.
The window in the camera is a 40.5mm UV blocker. This is the kind of window used to protect camera lens surfaces from dirt, and block UV light, which tends to fog film in daylight shots. Two problems: 1- the CCD has no (zero) response in UV, and 2 - the window is not coated on the rear surface. This turns out to be a big problem when shooting really bright objects. I replaced the window.
At the present time there is a flurry of activity in the Genesis community. Many of the owners are trying to come up with gadgetry to make it easier to own and operate a Genesis than some of the other cameras. I am caught up in that tide of creativity, and have designed and built a filter wheel. I have been using Andy Sauleitis´ 25mm filter wheel. Many may know of this famous wheel from the CB245 list. The filter size is a problem for a CCD with the active area of the KAF-0401. I decided to axe the filter wheel and replace it with one which accepts 50mm filters. I started this project some time before finding out that Andy now has a 50mm wheel. Oh, well. I needed the exercise.
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