From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: March 12, 2006 8:52:43 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: If I Can Have Just One FW Camera...


Hi David;


On 12-Mar-06, at 8:26 PM, David Illig wrote:

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Milton Aupperle kindly replied:


> The direction you want to mainly use it for should be the deciding

> factor, but here are some general things to consider...


Lunar, planetary, and solar (via a Questar with full-aperture filter);

possibly some autoguiding, though autoguiding is a lower priority.


If I wanted to do only lunar and solar work a monochrome camera would

do nicely -- I could colorize the solar images as necessary.


If I read your reply correctly, while there are quality issues between color and

monochrome, they are not huge. I think that for my purposes the convenience of a

color camera would outweigh the disadvantages. So where would that

leave me in the under $1k price range?


Just to clarify. Their are really no "quality" issues between Color versus Monochrome - simply tradeoffs in resolution versus convenience.


In any case for color cameras I'd probably go with


DBK 21AF04 (640x480 8 bit color ) for $470.00 USD


or


DBK 31AF03 (1024x768 8 bit color) for $695.00


as they both deliver 30 fps video and exposures as long as 30 seconds per frames. They both use a 4.65 micron pixel size, ,the same as your iBot camera does.


Check out


http://www.1394imaging.com/en/products/cameras/firewire_bayer/


for details.


HTH..


Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

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