I just found out the Mike Collette died of cancer on May 11.
For those of you who don't know Mike, he was the inventor of the scanning back marketed by Dicomed in the 90s, and later by his own company, Betterlight. Mike retired to the Sierra foothills in 2012 right after selling me a Super 6K, but still answered questions, gave advice, and supported me as I came up with ways to use the camera that he called "intentional misuse". In retirement, Mike was generous with his time and his engineering creativity, at one point cleverly coming up with a way to measure, characterize, and analyze the a7R shutter shock the helped many of us come with ways to ameliorate it.
Betterlight continues to support the product line.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but glad to have known Mike.
Jim