Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for acquiring video signals with high resolution in the optical path of a photographic printing device for point-by-point color video signal generation by means of a video image sensor which receives the original negative image. For generation of the video signals, a sufficiently high-resolution black and white video sensor (27) is used. The three color separations are delivered separately to the video sensor by means of a plurality of color filters (4, 5, 6) which are present for printer illumination control and are brought consecutively into their active setting.

Abstract: A printer has a light source and an objective which direct a light beam along a predetermined path, and a unit in the path for measuring the density of a master to be reproduced. The measuring unit includes a filter combination of at least two filters downstream of the objective and a light sensor downstream of the filter combination. The filter combination has a transmission pattern which shifts as the angle of incidence of the light beam on one or more of the filters changes. At least one of the filters is pivotable in order to vary the angle of incidence of the light beam on the same. This allows the transmission pattern to be shifted so as to adjust the measuring unit to the spectral sensitivity of the copy material used for reproduction of the master.

Abstract: Strips of coherent, exposed and developed film frames are advanced past, and discrete frames are placed onto, a window at a monitoring station where successive increments of the film frames are monitored by a device having photocells forming at least one row which extends transversely of the path of advancement of strips. The monitoring device is at a standstill during advancement of strips but is transported past a discrete frame at the monitoring station. Such monitoring device can ascertain the density of film frames, and its photocells generate signals which are used to image the frames onto photographic paper.