Camtel, the precursor to CTEC PHOTONICS, was founded in January of 1988 to develop area array CCD camera systems for astronomy applications. This involved the design of a combination still and real time camera, Peltier cooled dewar assembly, and a frame grabber/integrator. The integration period of the camera was extended by employing a Peltier cooler to eliminate the effects of dark current generation during the integration period. The Peltier Cooler and CCD imager assembly were housed in a vacuum dewar to reduce thermal load and eliminate the possibility of condensation. The frame grabber enhanced the SNR during still frame operation by performing frame averaging. It also was capable of performing star tracking by calculating the centroid about a target star within the range of a settable cross hair. In November, 1995, the company was reorganized as CTEC PHOTONICS, LLC, a limited liability corporation. Currently, CTEC PHOTONICS is marketing a version of the cooled camera to the Fluorescence Microscopy and Chemiluminescence markets. Our products include both cooled camera heads and complete cooled camera assemblies. The company has been the leading OEM supplier of these products for the past ten years. Customers include Pulnix, Dage-MTI, Video Scope, Stratagene, UVP, Bio-Rad, DVC and Stanford Photonics. Subsequently, the company was involved in consulting activities for night vision CCD cameras, and application of high speed, high resolution line scan cameras for optical character recognition systems. The most recent consulting activity has been the design and prototype production of a high frame rate, progressive scan, full resolution, CCD camera. This camera has auto switch frame rates of 60, 120, 180 and 240 frames per second. Full 648 X 484 square pixel resolution is maintained at all of these frame rates. The client company has had great commercial sales success with this product for motion analysis applications. The company's dedicated focus is the development of niche market camera products. We invite potential clients to take advantage of our video camera engineering expertise to solve their unique imaging product requirements.