Serial camera
A series image camera is a special camera that is designed to automatically take a large number of individual images.
It goes back to Étienne-Jules Marey , who used it to study motion sequences in animals by automatically taking a large number of images one after the other. From this prototype, the film cameras emerged , which jerk the film forward.
Series cameras have been used for the production of maps , especially for aerial photographs, since around 1920 . A survey aircraft flies over one strip of land after the other. The camera triggers the images in such a way that they overlap by around 60% in the direction of flight and can be evaluated as stereo images . In the past this control was done visually with a vertical navigation telescope , today with GPS and computerized overlap controller.
The best-known manufacturers of geodetic serial cameras were Carl Zeiss , Oberkochen (INTERGRAPH, Z / I Imaging) with the models RMK TOP and RMK A, Leica with the series RC10, RC20, RC30 ( Wild Heerbrugg ) and Carl Zeiss Jena with the models LMK and MRB.
As of today (2007), no new film-based serial cameras are being manufactured. Therefore these chambers are being replaced by digital series measuring chambers. These are primarily produced by INTERGRAPH, Z / I Imaging (DMC), Microsoft / Vexcel (Ultracam) and Leica-Geosystems (ADS40 and ADS80).