From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: July 31, 2007 12:01:08 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: any chance of support for this camera?

Hi Eric:

Hm...  seems like a lot of work, even with the batch processing.  I do

agree that the DSI Pro is pretty sensitive, though.  

I have an old 3Com Homeconnect camera that takes interlaced video as

well.  But it has low and medium quality settings that don't.  More

properly, it must only save alternate frames to the .avi (or .mov, as

there was a Mac version of the vicam software).  It worked pretty

well, but the chip wasn't even as sensitive as my non-pro Toucam, and

it could only acquire medium resolution images at 2fps, if I remember

correctly.

Best, would be for the Envisage software (or Nebulosity) to include a

function to deinterlace the frames from the DSI.  I wonder if that's

on the horizon?  (I haven't used mine in over a year, so I don't know

what kinds of upgrades to the Meade software might be out there).

I still find the results I get with the firewire cameras (Pt Grey) and

Astro IIDC to be far superior to working with the DSI Pro.  But both

my cameras are color cameras. It'd be nice to have a monochrome camera

with filters for some applications.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Tv" <astro4565@...> wrote:

Hi Tim,

Yes, I read about the interlacing, but had planned to use the

techniques presented here:

http://www.h-alpha.dk/dsipro.htm

He uses PSP to deinterlace, but I think probably PS might be able to

do it as well although I haven't looked.  

Eric