>What is a linear array digital camera? What do you mean by the array was >stationary? A linear array is just a single row of CCDs instead of a 2 dimensional sensor. These linear arrays are used to make reproductions of images by either moving the array across an image or moving an image across the array. The former is the situation used in sacnning camera backs such as the Better Light back as well as in many flatbed scanners. The latter is the case with most digital panoramic cameras where the camera is rotated and thus the surrounding scene is scanned in order to finally arrive at a very wide angle coverage photograph (360 degrees) of also very high quality (and size!). An alternative used in photofinish cameras is to keep the array stationary as in the panoramic camera but have the subject move infront of the lens and thus effectively scan itself across the array. To read more about this camera I made some time ago you can find much info here: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-better-scanner-cam.html http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-scanner-streak-cam.html http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-demo-scanner-cam.html http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-basic-digital-rollout.html http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-scanner-stripcamera.html I hope this helps. andy >"Made with an improvised linear array digital camera with the array >stationary but aimed at some subject that was rotating while the array continuously >(roughly speaking) added information about the image formed on the array to >memory."
