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    Default optical fiver for cameras?

    This might be a stupid question for most of you but I have very little experience with fiber optics.

    I was wondering if an optical fiber could be used between a GoPro type camera lens and the sensor?

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    ... read about "fiberscopes" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiberscope

    I have some "image-transferring" fibers with 3000, 10000 and 30000 fibers in bundles of 0,2mm to 1,5mm diameter from a fiberscope-assembly project ... and two 12mm wide "blanks", from which this fibers are made by heating and pulling them until the end diameter.

    They show/transfer an image from one to the other end, but you'll need different optics and objectives to focus on the fiber-ends.

    Here one of the "blanks" with a tapered end to show the "image-transfer" and size-changing by fiber-diameter:

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    The finished "pulled" image-fibers are so thin, that you'll need a microscope optics to see the image or to "fit" it onto the camera sensor ...

    Viktor

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    Thanks!

    I was hoping to use "fibers" same diameter as the image sensor/lens aperture, without pulling/changing the diameter.

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    ... there should be thicker "image"-fibers and stiff fiber-bundles somewhere ... but the high quality types with high enough fiber-desity to transfer the image without "fly-eye"-rastering would be hard to find and probably really pricey

    Viktor

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    If you can find some old technology image intensifier systems, they often use fibre bundles to transmit the image to the tube face.

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    probably not worth it
    Thanks all.

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