Kodak received gobs of money from the dark side USG to develop the CCD sensor for their Digital Imaging satellites, beginning with the K-11, built in 75/76, Launched in 77. I have one here somewhere in a box with my other treasures from the day. Incredibly fine CCDs, considering the resolution they provided for 9", then 5" film, where an image of a 20 mile wide swath would resolve a 1 foot item 190 miles below. The CCDs were only 1.5 inches long, three of them overlapped and combined digitally. —__— Black and white only.
My first digital camera in 1995 was a Kodak DC-40. Couldn't afford Apple's QuickTake camera at the time. The DC-40 sported a 0.38 megapixel, 756x504 CCD sensor, 4Mb of internal flash memory storage with a fixed 37mm equiv. lens. To enable remote flash, I rigged flash sensor to the camera so it's internal flash would trigger the externals. Used a custom ND filter over the cameras flash (several layers of typing paper cut to size. Doubtful I have any of the images from that little grey box. Too many hard drive failures ago. I used it to take photos of hundreds of pieces of camera gear I was selling on eBay. I DO still have the camera, and could take some more. Anybody? My second digital camera was also a Kodak. An LS-443. It sucked too. In testing, my cheap Korean Pocket DVR took better images. For one thing, the Kodak had pretty bad distortion. A pole near the edge of the frame would take on a painful bow from top to bottom. Threw that baby in the trash the second time it failed. On Nov 7, 2011, at 17:46 , P. J. Alling wrote: > Well don't that beat all. Kodak spends the last 10 years or so trying to > become a force in digital imaging to the neglect of all other aspects of it's > business then sells one of it's flagship digital imaging divisions. To top > that it's stock goes up 6%. The stock market is crazy. Kodak is still being > run by idiots. > > On 11/7/2011 8:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> Kodak has just sold their digital sensor division (who make the sensor >> for the 645D) >> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-eastmankodak-idUSTRE7A708720111108 >> http://betanews.com/2011/11/07/kodak-sells-off-its-ccd-image-sensor-business-to-private-equity-firm/ >> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/kodak-sells-image-sensor-business-to-platinum-equity-2011-11-07 >> >> I have a friend who works for Kodak in the sensor division in >> Rochester. I'll try to contact him and see if he can shed any light on >> the subject (so to speak). > Joseph McAllister [email protected] I couldn't remember most of what I know today if it weren't for others sharing their knowledge of my past on the Internet. Thank you… -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
