From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: February 10, 2010 5:06:03 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Astro & DMK ROI?

Hi Alberto;

On 10-Feb-10, at 4:54 PM, albe albo wrote:

Thank you Milton,

even the simple reduced disk space used is a nice and useful option, isn't it?

Perhaps it is very hard and time consuming to implement.

It isn't simple to do as there are lots of things that have to be worked through, especially when dealing with bayer video.

For the moon of course it's useless but for the planets it would be very precious.

Lately with Mars i'm wasting lot of gigabytes  of black unused screen.

Since my mount is fairly precise the planet doesn't wander so much so i could easily set a smaller rectangle. 

And if they had implemented Format 7 like many other companies, I would not need to  do it.

Even if the bandwidth/framerate remain the same i guess that the disk would work better for the smaller amount of data that will be written.

It makes zero difference over the FireWire bus. The only thing it does is reduce the image size.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle