Company

Santa Barbara Scientific (SBS) was established as an independent company in November, 2014, by Michael Barber, one of the co-founders and Vice President of Santa Barbara Instrument Group, Inc. (SBIG) for 25 years.  Initially, the purpose of SBS was to assist in the transition period after the sale of SBIG to Diffraction Limited.  In this role, Santa Barbara Scientific handled production of the larger format SBIG cameras and some specialty cameras and accessories under contract with Diffraction Limited.  Additionally SBS handled all warranty and non-warranty repairs of SBIG products while Diffraction Limited got up to speed, eventually assuming production activity in Ottawa, Canada in 2015.  From 2015 to 2017 SBS marketed and sold several versions of a Seeing Monitor and provided a service for the refurbishment, certification and sale of used caemras.  In 2017 Michael became the Director of Marketing for QHYCCD and SBS  became the North Americal Service Center for QHY products, facilitating replaecements and repair procedures, and we continue in this role today.  SBS also continues to make and sell seeing monitors using QHY cameras.  For a more detailed history see the Company History page.