Film Recorder - Key Manufacturers

Key Manufacturers

Traditional film recorder manufacturers have all but vanished from the scene or have evolved their product lines to cater to the motion picture industry. Dicomed was one such early provider of digital color film recorders. Polaroid, Management Graphics, Inc, MacDonald-Detwiler and Agfa were other producers of film recorders.

• Kodak Lightning I film recorder. One of the first laser recorders. Needed an engineering staff to set up.
• Kodak Lightning II film recorder used both gas and diode laser to record on to film.

• The last LVT machines produced by Kodak / Durst-Dice stopped production in 2002. There are no LVT film recorders currently being produced. LVT Saturn 1010 uses a LED exposure (RGB) to 8”x10” film at 1000-3000ppi.

• LUX Laser Cinema Recorder from Autologic Information International in Thousand Oaks, California. Sales end in March 2000. Used on the movie “The Titanic”

• Arri produces the Arrilaser line of laser-based motion picture film recorders.

• Celco makes a line of CRT based motion picture film recorders.

• Lasergraphics is a recent entrant into the cine film recorder market with its twenty year history in the traditional film recorder business.

• CCG, formally Agfa film recorders, has been a steady manufacturer of film recorders based in Germany.

• In 2004 CCG introduced Definity, a motion picture film recorder utilizing LCD technology. In 2010 CCG introduced the first full LED LCD film recorder as a new step in film recording.

• Cinevator is made by Cinevation AS, in Drammen, Norway, started shipping The Cinevator a real-time digital film recorder. It can record IN, IP and prints with and without sound