Faithful
Companion
Our Pentacam® flagship celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2022. This is a fine occasion to look back and share entertaining stories about the world-famous rotating Scheimpflug camera.
A surprise for the visionaries2:16 min
Pentacam
Pioneers
Look forward to personal insights into international ophthalmic practices and clinics, then and now: 12 international Pentacam® pioneers and innovators share their daily experiences with their long-time partner and helper. Every month, we put the spotlight on a different ophthalmologist and Pentacam® expert from a different country.
Exclusive Peeks
Behind the scenes
For the first time you will also hear stories from the inner circle around the Pentacam®: members of the OCULUS family from Wetzlar. Have you always wanted to know who actually invented the Pentacam® and how it got its name? Look forward to 12 surprising stories, with a new one added every month.
“There is no device that has changed the methodology of anterior segment analysis like our Pentacam® has.”
C. Kirchhübel, Episode December
A surprise for
the visionaries
Throughout all of 2022, we celebrated the Pentacam®. Now, the time has come to give the visionaries behind the famous rotating Scheimpflug camera the recognition they have earned!
Gathering all the important people, including the entire management of OCULUS Optikgeräte GmbH and the head of development, in one place and at the same time was a logistical masterpiece!
Watch and see for yourself whether Christian and Matthias Kirchhübel’s surprise was a success.
A surprise for the visionaries 2:16 min
A LOOK INTO
THE FAMILY ALBUM
Here’s a brief, colourful overview of the Pentacam® family’s past 20 years.
Gert Köst, head of the development department at OCULUS, comes up with the idea of having a Scheimpflug camera rotate around the living eye. That’s how it all began.
First prototypes of the new Pentacam® are presented for the first time to a professional audience at the American Academy Meeting in Orlando, USA.
After only three years a further model, the Pentacam®HR, has been developed. The newcomer celebrates its premiere at the AAO in Chicago, USA.
The Pentacam® is getting better and better: The Pentacam® and Pentacam®HR are equipped with a new iris camera.
Product manager Jörg Iwanczuk presents the new Pentacam® AXL at the ESCRS in Barcelona. High-ranking experts such as Prof Renato Ambrósio Jr, Prof Paolo Vinciguerra and Dr Riccardo Vinciguerra are impressed.
Prof Belin from the USA has devised a new approach to classifying and monitoring keratoconus progression, and the Pentacam® enables him to realize his ideas. Since then, the “Belin ABCD Progression Display” has undergone one facelift and had new functions added to it.
With its new CSP Report the Pentacam® qualifies itself for a new group of customers: Scleral lens fitters are thrilled by the Pentacam®, and patients are grateful for significantly reduced fitting times.
OCULUS developers have succeeded in integrating yet another function into the Pentacam® AXL: Measurement results from the wavefront analysis functions and the retroillumination make the new Pentacam® AXL Wave a superstar.
The Pentacam® celebrates its 20th anniversary together with all its family members.
Gert Köst, head of the development department at OCULUS, comes up with the idea of having a Scheimpflug camera rotate around the living eye. That’s how it all began.
First prototypes of the new Pentacam® are presented for the first time to a professional audience at the American Academy Meeting in Orlando, USA.
After only three years a further model, the Pentacam®HR, has been developed. The newcomer celebrates its premiere at the AAO in Chicago, USA.
The Pentacam® is getting better and better: The Pentacam® and Pentacam®HR are equipped with a new iris camera.
Product manager Jörg Iwanczuk presents the new Pentacam® AXL at the ESCRS in Barcelona. High-ranking experts such as Prof Renato Ambrósio Jr, Prof Paolo Vinciguerra and Dr Riccardo Vinciguerra are impressed.
Prof Belin from the USA has devised a new approach to monitoring keratoconus progression, and the Pentacam® enables him to realize his ideas. Since then the “Belin ABCD Progression Display” has undergone one facelift and had new functions added to it.
With its new CSP Report the Pentacam® qualifies itself for a new group of customers: Scleral lens fitters are thrilled by the Pentacam®, and patients are grateful for significantly reduced fitting times.
OCULUS developers have succeeded in integrating yet another function into the Pentacam® AXL: Measurement results from the wavefront analysis functions make the new Pentacam® AXL Wave a superstar.
The Pentacam® celebrates its 20th anniversary together with all its family members.
Thank You
for your trust
We regret that we are unable to honour all eye specialists here by name as they would deserve. We thank all Pentacam® users around the globe for the trust they have put in us and hope that we will continue to be able to inspire and support you with our technology “Made in Germany”.
Pentacam®
Pentacam® HR
Pentacam® AXL
Pentacam® AXL Wave
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