I wasn't going to start this yet, but since someone started talking about
digital cameras, I couldn't resist.  I am photographer doing mostly large
format.  The cost of a commercial digital back for a 4x5 camera is about
$25k +/-.  I did some poking around Kodak's site for CCD's, but cost for
quantity 1 is also outrageous.  So I was just wondering if anyone could
suggest a good starting point.  Doesn't even have to be PIC based (outrage!
I know) but CCD to USB of some sort would be fun to do.  Looking for a CCD
project that doesn't involve a huge chipset to implement that could be used
as a learning stepping stone to a higher end color project for the camera.
Also wanted to make it modular enough to use for astrophotography as well,
but that's more opto-mechanical than EE.
   Are there CCD interface standards or does every vendor dream up their
own?

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