From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: May 22, 2006 11:32:07 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re The Lumenera Review

Hi Tim;

What I found interesting was they never mentioned 8 / 16 bit (the lumenera is a 10 bit camera), but maybe that isn't possible with Streampix  or perhaps it's a limitation with the Window Stream Class Driver. Also it got great reviews but clearly the author was struggling to capture any "high speed" video with it out of the box and he needed a really high performance laptop (2.6 gighz and a 7200 rpm drive) to achieve that.

As to any comparison on the Mac showing up in S&T...

Unfortunately the only guy at S&T that was Mac friendly was moved to one of their sister publications, so the odds of getting any coverage for Mac (or Linux) products are about zero. I made announcements in the past to S&T and got no where since he "switched". I'll keep trying but I expect nothing for my efforts.

If S&T don't have Mac hardware, then there is very little one can do about it for a review. And Apple simply isn't going to help out with a loner laptop nor do they care about "Niche Markets" outside of Music or TV Video. Apple is probably too occupied with trying to find ways to reduce the heat of their core duo hot plates .. umm I mean MacBooks (gee didn't Steve show a graph about how les spower hungry x86 was than PowerPC??)

Interesting article at The Register today on a low power (7 watts versus 20+ watts x86) dual core PowerPC processor that Apple was looking at right before the Intel announcement - which would have saved all the developers tons of time and effort, as wel as you guys money in buying new software. It also would have kept the Classic people still in the game too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/19/pasemi_apple/

But that's all water under the bridge - Apple's an x86 follower now.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

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On 22-May-06, at 10:49 AM, Tim wrote:

Re, the Lumenera camera:

I read the review in S&T, and was disappointed that nothing was said

about the sensitivity of the ccd (or which chip is used), or the range

of exposures available.

I would sure love to see a review of one of the Pt Grey cameras -

particularly the Scorpion B&W, with it's 9.9 micron pixels) and Astro

IIDC software, which is still less expensive than the Lumenera with

the Streampix software.  For the PC folks, it would be interesting to

see how the bundled software performs when taking astro images.  I

haven't used the software that came with my Flea, though, because

Astro IIDC does all I need.  But I suppose I could look at it.

-Tim.