Requirements for a Digital Studio Camera

Recent advances in the field of high resolution color still electronic imaging - particularly the development of the self-scanned photodiode and charged coupled device arrays - now makes possible the advent of an all electronic studio camera. Such a device can be used in place of a standard view camera for input of digital color image data directly to an electronic color separating system, thus eliminating the costly and time-consuming steps of photographing a scene, processing the film, and scanning the resulting transparency. The resolution, spectral sensitivity, and speed requirements of an electronic studio camera are reviewed. Images generated with an early version of such a system are presented, and its limitations are discussed.