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TonyDuell · 12th Mar 2019, 3:26 pm

Are you sure? The Reticon device I used (many years ago) was an image sensor but was not strictly a CCD. It was more like an array of photodiodes.

I have a CCD based still camera from around 1980. A Datacopy 300. It has a linear (not area) CCD with about 2000 pixels that is tracked across the frame with a motor and leadscrew. It needs a PERQ workstation to control it (yes, I have the workstation and interface card). Area CCDs existed by that time but were very expensive I think.

12th Mar 2019, 3:26 pm	#8
TonyDuell Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Biggin Hill, London, UK. Posts: 5,224	Re: CCD camera history Are you sure? The Reticon device I used (many years ago) was an image sensor but was not strictly a CCD. It was more like an array of photodiodes. I have a CCD based still camera from around 1980. A Datacopy 300. It has a linear (not area) CCD with about 2000 pixels that is tracked across the frame with a motor and leadscrew. It needs a PERQ workstation to control it (yes, I have the workstation and interface card). Area CCDs existed by that time but were very expensive I think.