From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: September 13, 2005 5:39:57 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Binned color?

Tim;

On 13-Sep-05, at 5:13 PM, Tim wrote:

Milton:

Hm... very interesting. I tried to do a search on "subframe" in the manual, but got no

responses. "Window", not surprisingly, gets too many responses!

But my question now is: If I get one of the megapixel CCD Scorpion cameras, can I take

advantage of the smaller pixels and keep the frame rate up by windowing a subframe of

the ccd for aquiring video?

It depends on which model your talking about.

The 20S0 series supports 1280x960 and 1600x1200 sizes in fixed formats.

The 13SM series supports 640x480, 800x600,1024x768 and 1280x960. I "think" that the 14S0 is the same as the 13SM, but their detailed Scorpion documents from January don't list it. You may want to ask them what standard sized formats it supports.

Unless the specs change, the Scorpion isn't available with a

640x480 CCD color chip, just a B&W chip at that size (but with 9.9 micron pixels!) and

megapixel color ccd chips with smaller pixels (in the 4-5 micron range)

That's why I like the Flea cameras.

Also I'm waiting on clarification from PGR on IR filter removal question too.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

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