: Scholles, M.; Becker, R.; Jehmlich, H.

Abstract
The contribution demonstrates the co-operation of electronic, mechanical and optical components and units, controlled by the necessary software, in a modern color scanner. This equipment offers a solution in the mind of the radical changes of the world of photography: images will not be captured on celluloid as now, but be acquired as data by photosensitive chips, as in digital cameras and scanners. The equipment which is currently available, is a color photo scanner that combines the capabilities of a camera and a scanner. This equipment captures the image of any three-dimensional object and allows to process the result immediately on a computer. Pictures can be taken from any static object, whereby a color sensitive CCD line sensor moved by a highly accurate operating step motor scans the object and registers its color composition, shape and size.