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Old 08-11-2013, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by RickS View Post
Stuart,

Binning relies on the read noise for a binned "super pixel" being a lot less than the read noise for an individual pixel. Sadly, for many of the Kodak/Trusense sensors this is not the case and hardware binning is not that beneficial. You might as well capture the RGB binned x1 and do software binning after the fact if that's what you want.

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Rick.
Really, that suprises me. The whole (only?) point of hardware binning is to reduce readout noise. How do you get to this conclusion?.
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