Ive been asked to help investigate,trial and set up a digital capture system. The system will be used to photograph a finished painted, machined and lacquered product about 2 ft square before despatch as a means of recording its perfect finish. It will need to record very fine detail such as hairline cracks,dust in the paintwork etc. To make it interesting the camera and lighting system have to be built into and be controlled by the machine that performs the final quality control checks. The system will be totally automatic, fixed focus, fixed lighting and will take approx 4000 images per year. I'm thinking along the lines of mounting a Hasselblad H system camera,50mm lens and a (to be decided ?) digital back onto the checking rig with Fluorescent(?)lighting. It will have its own spot on the rig where the product will be transported to after being checked for completeness, photographed then removed. bear in mind that the machine operators are people who are paid to place the item in the rig for checking and remove it when checked,they will not touch the imaging system. Any bright ideas out there,has anyone seen or heard of anything similar and is my choice of camera ok. The digital back is a tough one, price is not an issue, final quality and resolution are. The machine developer can sort out the software issues of starting up and closing down the capture programme and storing the images for future reference.
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