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Old 25-05-2012, 08:53 PM
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QHY5-II due soon

6 different flavours, some of these might be interesting.

http://qhyccd.com/ccdbbs/index.php?topic=3368.0

The following is lifted from this site: http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/new-...a-and-germany/
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The whole line is based on Aptina/Micron cheap CMOS sensors. They aren't state-of-the-art sensors, but they are cheap, so QHY should keep the low prices QHY5 has now. New camera - QHY5P-II is third (after DMK72 and Lucky Cam) to offer MT9P031 - a sensor with big amount of small pixels. The mono version has quite good sensitivity (QE), but still you have to look out for the rolling shutter. Good for "low resolution" solar and lunar imaging, but on the web you will also see some planetary images done with DMK72 operation on a small and fast ROI mode.

The 10 and 14 mpix color cameras use CMOS sensors with extremely small pixels (around 1 micron). Those are used only for microscope cameras. Aside of cameras - the software needs updates too. It would be good if those cameras would be fully supported by SharpCap or even FireCapture by one of generic interfaces.
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