PanoTools NG:
Re: early scanning backs (was: 425 Megapixel VR shot ...)
Carl von Einem 2009-Dec-18 15:26:52
The abstract of that US only patent says that it is about a single pass
scanning back for a view camera. So that maybe makes the Betterlight the
first scanning back camera in the US.
The more compact Rollei and the other solution I worked with used a
three pass scan array connected via SCSI which still makes me doubt that
Betterlight was the inventor of scanning backs for cameras if you accept
development outside the USA.
<http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Franke_&_Heidecke>
"1991 Rollei enters digital photography with the Rollei Digital Scan
Pack for the Rolleiflex 6008."
An image is on <http://www.digicamhistory.com/1991.html>
-> ROLLEI Digital ScanPack 1991
BTW for that scanning device we used a really nice scan software called
Cirrus from Canto. Sadly Canto gave up on Cirrus after their newer
project Cumulus found a bigger market.
The only other really different scanning technology (for photography) I
know of was used in Kontron's ProgRes 3012 which hit the market in 1996:
<http://www.progres-camera.com/microscope-camera/digital-camera-jenoptik....>
Not a camera back, though, but also a great device to work with! It
needed to be attached to a special card (it was the time of those Mac
clones so that already was a PCI card inside that strange Umax SuperMac).
Carl
Posted by: "bohonus"
> --- In #removed#, Carl von Einem <einem@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Posted by: "bohonus"
>>> > > (...) Betterlight (the inventor of the scanning back camera)
>>> > > http://www.betterlight.com/articles_technical.html
>> >
>> > That site claims "...the original digital scanning back released in 1994..."
>> > The first Rollei scanning back was a little bit earlier, about mid of
>> > 1992 (probably introduced at the Photokina).
>> >
> My guess is that the Rollei device you mentioned used different technology.
> Here's Mike Collete's (Betterlight) US Patent for the scanning back camera insert-
> http://tinyurl.com/ye9h36w
>
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