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Thinking out loud:

Would it be possible to butcher two cards and harvest the connectors to construct a female to female cf extender? One end goes in the camera, the other in something like this:

http://www.fancycost.com/cf-to-sata-converter-adapter-green-p-54074.html#.UZ-immhIFrQ

Even if you had to power the sata component with another source?

That one goes the wrong way: it shows a CF card to a SATA controller. But apart from that, the part of building a CF extender is, you're right, the first step. Not anywhere near as simple as it sounds: these damn connectors are SMALL! My soldering iron doesn't have a chance here, I think. I'm trying something else.

These are the Spydercheckr colors:
http://spyder.datacolor.com/wp-content/uploads/datacolorproductliterature/SpyderCheckr%20Color%20Data.pdf

No idea. Probably not.

I've shot a DataColor SpyderChecker with a 5D2+RAW:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?307967-Canon-RAW-video-color-accuracy

I think the colors are so good out of the gate that it makes no sense trying to build a better color profile. I'd be happy just working out which are the best ISO values to use.

Still, if you want a DNG from that test, send me a PM with an email address.

Hi

It seems lots of people thought the same, after seeing how awesome the 5D3+RAW is and how expensive big and fast CF cards are.

I've already got some parts at home, I'll be playing with my soldering iron this weekend, I'll let you know how it goes (I won't say much, my plan, as always, is to get rich!  ).

And I also wrote to ESSkabel and a couple of other firms, saying the market would be in the thousands or maybe tens of thousands, and that the margins could be huge (since the only alternative are the ultra-expensive CF cards) and didn't manage to impress any of them. I hope I'll have better luck if I achieve proof-of-concept.

For those trying this: the cheapest thing you can brick is, probably, a card reader. I only plan to put the thing inside a camera if I get it working there first.