YellowPacman

I will trade the process for sony sensors for the process for canon ones. My composition/times/proportions does not work on 6/5dm3. BTW Heat is ok for canon glass removal, Sony glass on the imx sensor ceramic base will laugh at you until you burn it to hell. I can buy the d600/d610 sensor on ebay, remove the cfa, put one 1mm glass back (no infitity) and send it to your address. Changing sensor in a camera is very easy, you can make it yourself. Details can be discussed, sorry for my russian english..

Hi, may i give you a little tip after succesfull debayering 15+ nikon d600/d610 cameras? Never use heat on the glass, you may solder out the chip or overheat the board. The glass has to be removed mechanically. Never use [removed word] like wooden sticks or polisher paste or something like that.. you will get broken lines and never get rid of dust and leftovers. Also dont cover the golden wires with an epoxy, they will be teared as temperature rise. Debayering is a CHEMICAL process, with right chemicals your sensor will be mirrolike. I add a pic of bayer filter curls up into tube to illustrate how it works. Also i can make debayered imx128 sensor (d600, d610, a7, a7-2) for a reasonable price. In nearest future i will try a7r and d800, i suppose the process will be the same. And a debayered full frame is of course better camera than someting like asi1600mm, it is just 4 times bigger with bigger pixels and strong processing.

D600/D610/D750/a7/a7-2 or any other camera with the IMX128 sensor can be debayered, the most tricky part is the glass removal. Also you need a cleanroom to get rid of those dust/particles on the sensor for a perfect image. I still have some of it even after 7 cameras debayered. I aslo did some simple test of brightness with debayered d610 vs non debayered d610. Both in monochrome mode, same settings. The non-debayered one needs about (not exact) +0.7ev in lightroom to compensate exposure to make images the same. The illumination is led lamps (no uv, no ir), it is a night outside, no sunlight. Under a daylight or for the astronomy purposes (with IR or UV) i suppose the debayered one will get more than 1ev advantage.

Tried to remove glass off sony a7 sensor. I used a rotary tool (dremel 3000 analog) and grinded the sensor glass to this condition. Then i tried to grind it with a broach file (not sure about translation) The glass had broken, cracked to inside and damaged a couple of those tiny gold wires, so sensor is dead :(( (assebmbled back, the camera is alive but black image) Is there any known safe way for a glass removal from d600/a7 sensor?