From: "jterry94" <terryj@iit.edu>

Date: July 16, 2005 8:08:50 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: just wishing

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tjp314@p...> wrote:

Milton:

Well, I'm betting the Quantifire is "expensive" by my reckoning!  ;oD  (I think the SX 

MX25C, though very attractive otherwise, is "too expensive", and the MX8C is "not 

cheap" 

but doable if...)

I poked around on the Starlight Xpress site, and I'm still surprised that with USB 2, their 

cameras still take seconds to download a frame.  I think I figured that assuming the 

MX8C 

(4M pixels) binned 4x4.  But the nice thing is that those eensy pixels wouldn't be so 

eensy 

binned, and a .5Mpixel square camera with those color pixels binned ought to be sweet.  

On paper, that is.

Hi Tim, 

If you on-chip bin a color camera you lose the color information.

If you bin off-chip, then you lose the gain in transfer speed. 

Jeff