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Originally Posted by Stonius
Maybe that's true for CCD, but that's not what I'm finding with my CMOS. For me, the mean value stays the same - it's the StdDev that changes - which I guess means there is less noise and so the signal can be boosted to the same effect as having captured more photons?
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That simply means the software binning is normalising the result. Binning 4 pixels means you are combining the electrons from those 4 pixels
The only benefit to binning in the driver is saving disk space. And some time saving if you are running client/server and have to download the subs over a slow network.
No change to exposure time or integration time.