From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: February 19, 2006 10:59:39 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Enable CCD overdrive
Hi Jim;
There are certain registers in the TI TSB15LV01 for the inexpensive IIDC cameras that can be adjusted. I've spent some time fiddling with them to improve brightness. They interact with each other and this makes it really tricky because if you do it wrong, the camera display goes black until you restore the registers to their origins.
However this does have a cost as it increases noise levels (especially the edge "step" noise on the left hand side of the image which is EM-Coupling) and changes the color balance too.
HTH..
Milton J. Aupperle
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On 18-Feb-06, at 11:38 PM, jimchung2338 wrote:
Milton,
Was wondering if you could elaborate on what is going on when you enable the CCD
overdrive in the preferences and boost sensitivity by 30%.
Thanks,
Jim